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Human rights? The very name is racist.

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Tuvix is more of a trolley problem situation.

And isn't the crystalline entity a mass murderer or something? Idk, it's been a while.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 12 hours ago

Fine, call it humanoid rights.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Duplicating via transporter accident 👍
Merging via transporter accident 👎

Clearly, what Janeway should've done is Riker'd the Tuvix and then only murdered one of the copies.

So that leaves one to take apart so you can make more?

[–] Admin@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It appears that perhaps a transporter accident has duplicated this post...

Our screwy Mastodon federation strikes again...

well yeah. data is an artificial human. so is tom riker (he was made artificially not having this debate). exocomps, uh, shut up. nanites and crystalline entities aren't human, they get nanite and crystalline entity rights. and tuvixen are unique, so they don't get rights.

[–] Steve@communick.news 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Does Tuvix have two species, or none?

we don't let tuvixen reproduce. it's in the charter.

[–] Steve@communick.news 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I would say none.
Maybe to be a member of a species requires at least a history of a single breeding pair?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

"A single Tuvix is a curiosity. A wonder, even. But thousands of Tuvixes -- isn't that becoming a race?"

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

Not all species reproduce sexually. Not all sexual reproduction involves pairs.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

Tertiary question: we know that Vulcans/Romulans were descendents of the Progenitors, but are Talaxians?

If not, it might not be technically possible for them to interbreed at all, meaning that a Vulcan/Talaxian hybrid could never occur naturally, and also that Tuvix would probably be genetically incompatible with everything and everyone. Therefore, no species - only an anomaly produced by a freak transporter accident.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Of course he has tu, it's in the name