![]() Kes persuaded Janeway, however, that the procedure was necessary, as she needed Tuvok and Neelix. He pleaded with Kes, among others, to speak to the captain on his behalf. He explained to Janeway that, while he did care about Tuvok and Neelix (regarding them as his 'parents'), this also gave him the will to live of two men, and he didn't want to die. Tuvix announced that he didn't want to die, feeling that he had just as much right to exist as any other being. By beaming out the segregated DNA strands, the transporter would have the original DNA strands necessary to restore the two individuals. It took The Doctor almost a month, but he found a way to reverse the accident, by using a radioactive isotope which would attach to the DNA strands of one of the merged species, but not the other. Tom Paris joked, after Commander Chakotay lost at pool twice against Tuvix, " We've created a monster!" He was keeping a respectful distance from Kes, who was mourning the loss of two friends, and feeling uncomfortable with the reminder of them walking around. She also noted that Tuvix was an able advisor who cleverly used humor to make a point, and his food was better than Neelix's. The Doctor told Tuvix that it might be many years before he could find a way to separate them - in the meantime, Tuvix was invited to become a member of the crew, and given the rank of Lieutenant.Ĭaptain Kathryn Janeway noted in her captain's log that Tuvix managed to gain friends among the crew in his own right, and was a very able tactical officer who wasn't afraid to voice his opinion. The theory turned out to be correct when two plants and the orchid were beamed up together, resulting in one plant arriving on Voyager. Tuvix suggested that being deconstructed during beaming allowed the symbiogenesis enzymes of the plant to react to Neelix's and Tuvok's DNA in the matter stream, so only the single organism existed at the point of rematerialization. This usually only occurred with microcellular organisms. ![]() Tuvix's research indicated that this could be an indicator of symbiogenesis, where an organism reproduces by merging with a second species to produce a hybrid. The plant samples, which were also caught up in the matter stream and were also a part of Tuvix, contained lysosomal enzymes. It was Tuvix, the name the combined individual had given himself, who realized what had happened. ![]() According to The Doctor, Tuvix also possessed: ".Tuvok's sense of intellectual superiority, and Neelix's annoying ebullience." Despite repairs having just been made to the transporter, no fault could be found in the logs at the time of the accident. Only one molecular pattern rematerialized, and formed a healthy organism combining everything regarding Tuvok and Neelix, including organs, enzymes, and memories. O'Brien shakes his head, because he'd spent the day thinking of Linda.The accident was the conclusion to an away mission to collect some orchid samples. Kiowa says that was probably O'Brien's first time seeing a dead body. In the afternoon, Kiowa approached O'Brien and told O'Brien he did a good thing by not shaking the dead man's hand: "it took guts." O'Brien said it had nothing to do with courage he was just scared, but Kiowa says they're the same thing. He felt sick for the rest of the day, not so much from seeing the body but the "act of greeting the dead." He recalls how the men propped the man up against a fence, crossed his legs, and talked to him. Jensen urged O'Brien to go shake the dead man's hand, but O'Brien kept refusing. The village was deserted except for one dead, old man lying near a pigpen. ![]() In 1969 the platoon came under fire and Lieutenant Jimmy Cross radioed in an air strike, and the platoon watched the village burn to the ground.
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