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It may have been morally dubious but it needed to be done. Tuvok was vital to Voyager's survival, Tuvix wasn't. (I haven't seen the episode in a while so I'll have to check Memory Alpha later.) Am I disappointed Neelix lived? Yes. Do I wish Tuvix made it out somehow? Yes. But Voyager needed Tuvok and there was no other way.

If Tuvok had died Voyager would have continued on without him. He was an important crew member but not vital. Tuvix was doing Tuvok's job adequately.

I think that the Doctor was a more important member of the crew than Tuvok was. But when the Doctor's mobile emitter was fused to create One ,Janeway didn't consider sacrificing One (even though he might be a danger to the crew) to get the mobile emitter back. The Doctor was able to carry out his job far more effeciently with the emitter and I would say that the emitter was more essential to the crew's survival than Tuvok was.

They could have projected the doctor with a parabollic dish when ever they felt like, out of sick bay after that turfwar in season 2, but the technology probably wasn't "cool" or "sleek" enough to justify carrying "it" about to imitate a trained physician.

As limiting as it was to the doctors work ethic to reconfine his program to sickbay, it cut down his fucking about and personal free time by almost 100 percent.

He's a work dog not a pet.
 
Without his mobile emitter he could never had gone done to the planet in "Blink of an Eye". If I remember correctly the info that he gain on the planet's surface was important in the long run (it has been a while since I looked at this episode so I might be wrong).
 
That is a Janeway Trend she never liked leaving anyone behind.

Like when she told Paris she'd kill him in a minute if he didn't follow her orders?

And Tuvix, after he'd become a member of the crew she wasted no time in killing him. Come on, we're talking about Bipolar Kate here.
 
Without his mobile emitter he could never had gone done to the planet in "Blink of an Eye". If I remember correctly the info that he gain on the planet's surface was important in the long run (it has been a while since I looked at this episode so I might be wrong).

If it's been that long since you seen VOY Blink of an Eye? How long has it been since you've seen TOS Wink of an eye? If the Doctor didn't have a hard on for getting himself on an away mission, then the most cursory search of the medical database (Introspection even.) would have unveiled the potion Kirk used to speed up to superspeed a century earlier and anyone could have been sent down to the surface on that away mission.

The Doctor probably suppressed the data to underline his importance to the mission that day and overall.
 
That is a Janeway Trend she never liked leaving anyone behind.

Like when she told Paris she'd kill him in a minute if he didn't follow her orders?

I've never recalled Kate saying anything like that.

And Tuvix, after he'd become a member of the crew she wasted no time in killing him. Come on, we're talking about Bipolar Kate here.

If that's how you see then that's how you see it but I see it differently. While I might not agree with her decisions I recognize them as tough calls that I hope no one would have to make.
 
Zameaze is referencing 40 days when she was talking with torpedoes in an attempt to force tom to work in reverse of his conscience because she and Prime Directive believe that species stupid enough to kill themselves with technology they cannot handle, will eventually kill themselves with if not their current tech then their next generation tech they still cannot handle worse, and then it's just a question of who they take down with them as they collapse under the weight of their own obliviousness.

This is why replicators were killing Kazon, and they were going to war, and dictating the rise and fall of their own and local empires because of their tentative and brief acquisition of Federation transporters.

Trying to handover the Malon recycling technology, or the Hirogen holography tech were about about the worst things Janeway has ever tried to do.

If you don't let the idiots die out, they will breed. For the universes own good, idiots species have to be left to stand own their own implements, or not and die out before their inescapable selfishnessness maximises to the point they break the galaxy and no one can live happily ever after.
 
Tallaxians are a slave race.

You're not legally allowed to kill them or make more, without permission from their Haakonian owners.
 
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