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[KevinM1]

"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.

TNG never had anything like "Tuvix." The closest one was the episode that introduced the Trill, and it was a pretty progressive episode essentially dealing with transgenderism.

The biggest flaw with "Tuvix" was that, IMO, Janeway's final decision was utterly immoral. Tuvix was a new life form. Completely unique. Exactly what Starfleet purports to be about. And, it's not like Tuvok and Neelix were somehow in pain. They were simply merged into something new. A life that begged and pleaded to live.

And she, for all intents and purposes, killed him for no real reason.

I dunno... I just found the entire thing distasteful.