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Human rights? The very name is racist.

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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Fu@hostux.social 0 points 4 months ago

@MousePotatoDoesStuff "The good of the one, outweighs the good of the many"

[–] Fu@hostux.social 0 points 4 months ago

@MousePotatoDoesStuff yep, but don't mass murders and all those on the trolly tracks deserve human rights?

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

As far as I can recall the entity killed a planet. It was unaware that the planet was inhabitated. Upon discovering that these meat bags are sentient, it attempted to communicate with us and we blasted it.

[–] Steve@communick.news 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Does Tuvix have two species, or none?

[–] Steve@communick.news 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months 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 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

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

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 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.

[–] Admin@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago

Our screwy Mastodon federation strikes again...

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago

Fine, call it humanoid rights.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] TheFerrango@lemmings.world 0 points 5 months ago

Janeway was right