(August 8, 2018 at 11:39 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: "Tuvix" was the episode that convinced me that
1. The writers were idiots
2. Janeway was crazy
To be honest I learned to appreciate Voyager over the years, including Tuvix episode.
It was a goofy episode, with somewhat gay undertone, that you could sit back and chill out watching. There wasn't anything dark about it, no torture, no screaming, they weren't pounding you over the head with some mysteries which you will be hoping they answer in the last episode, but just some science.
Almost all episodes of Voyager and TNG had the same premise and that was that they had encountered some problem which they tried to make to look unsolvable, but then at the end everything comes to status quo.
Especially in Voyager because they were so isolated from the rest that they really had to concentrate on individual characters and their individual problems, they couldn't exactly do as they did in TNG where some character is being visited by an old friend who turns out to be a foe, or being visited by sibling, parent, teacher - I mean they could do it very sparsely.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
