It’s one of the most ethically questionable episodes in Trek. It reminds me of the test that they give replicants in the original Blade Runner. If you see a tortoise upside down in the desert, what do you do?
If you leave it, it will die. But it will become food for other animals and nature will take It’s course. If you intervene and flip it back over right side up, you are likely saving it.
Flip over the turtle. Save the god damned penguin! Your actions aren’t going to upset some natural balance of nature in any meaningful way – except for the creature you save. You’re not going to cause a mass extinction by saving the octopus from the sharks! Interfere, you dick! I hate these documentary makers who use this excuse; they only don’t intervene because it makes for better film. It’s a cop out.
If you’re a biologist studying lifecycles or some shit, fine. Be hard hearted for science. But pretending that you’re saving the pure state of nature and then hopping in your Chinook helicopter to jet off to base camp is ludicrous.
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I think what the captain did was difficult but in the long run the right thing to do.
looks around
Is she still here? Did Janeway hear that? She’s not going to deactivate my program is she?
Janeway does not sleep. She waits. Probably should cut down on the coffee intake.
It’s one of the most ethically questionable episodes in Trek. It reminds me of the test that they give replicants in the original Blade Runner. If you see a tortoise upside down in the desert, what do you do?
If you leave it, it will die. But it will become food for other animals and nature will take It’s course. If you intervene and flip it back over right side up, you are likely saving it.
Ok, so, this is one of my many pet peeves.
Flip over the turtle. Save the god damned penguin! Your actions aren’t going to upset some natural balance of nature in any meaningful way – except for the creature you save. You’re not going to cause a mass extinction by saving the octopus from the sharks! Interfere, you dick! I hate these documentary makers who use this excuse; they only don’t intervene because it makes for better film. It’s a cop out.
If you’re a biologist studying lifecycles or some shit, fine. Be hard hearted for science. But pretending that you’re saving the pure state of nature and then hopping in your Chinook helicopter to jet off to base camp is ludicrous.
Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about… your mother.
But the intervention is part of the quandry. Some would argue that inaction is the best action as far as Tuvix is concerned.
Let me tell you about my mother.
That’s a great gif!
Not mine, but sets a great atmosphere for both the reference and the discussion at hand.
Starfleet certainly isn’t, as evidenced in Twovix.