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The Episode in Which Tom Paris Is Accused Of Murder

Hi,

I do not remember what the episode is called, but Tuvok has a transporter rendezvous with the colorful space cook. My hypothesis is that Janeway really did commit murder on Tuvix and got off it with some bullshit. Why? Well, because she is Janeway, obviously. The crew witnessed his murder with their own eyes, the evidence against Janeway was concrete and undeniable. I wonder about this episode. What are your thoughts about Janeway's guilt?


The episode title was "Twix." The crew nearly came to blows over choosing either the left or right half.
 
Not so in the first case and a dubious assertion based on the evidence in the second. Carry on.

There was apparently a fair amount of disagreement between the producers about the content of this episode and how it presented Tom Paris. The resulting concoction was something of an unsatisfactory compromise.

The folks running Trek during and after its revival on TV in 1987 - including not just the producers and staff but the business folks who managed it - never really were or seem even now to be comfortable with portraying characters possessing the full complement of human motivations and behavior.

Thank you for your answer.
 
Hm. A thread challenging people to come up with obviously-unintended interpretations of events seen in episodes could have some entertainment value...
 
Not "Jaris"? The one where Janeway and Paris..oh never mind.

Too bad it wasn't Janeway and Harry. They could call it "January". And it would work for both romance shipping and transporter fusion.

Two reasons why Janeway wasn't court-martialed for Tuvix's "death".

1. Starfleet probably has no laws regarding the rights and status of fused beings. Remember that Bruce Maddox would not have faced charges if he had been allowed to dismantle Data, even if the latter had been killed by his experiments.

2. She's friggin' Kathryn Janeway. She's reformed the Q continuum, trashed the Borg, made fear afraid, and told death to go back to hell. You think a mere Starfleet admiral is going to mess with her?
 
Most importantly:
3. Nobody was around to convene a Board of Inquiry, much less a Court Martial.

Though I'd like to think upon their return to the AQ, The Doctor reported on Janeway's actions in "Tuvix", "Nothing Human" and "Latent Image".

Same goes for Chakotay with regards to "Equinox".
 
I think Janeway is in the clear regarding Tuvix and Latent Image, because fused being rights and hologram rights were not yet legally established. Nothing Human... I think that B'Elanna had probably cooled off by the time Voyager reached the Alpha Quadrant, and the Evil Cardie Scumbag was purged by the EMH.

However, Equinox's events could likely have been a serious issue. Even if Chakotay didn't report the issue, the hapless crewman Janeway tortured undoubtedly did.
 
According to the wikia, all five Equinox crew did. Interestingly, one of them was seen in a later show in a security role. I'm surprised that a disgraced crewman would be allowed in a position where he was allowed access to weapons... maybe he had regained Janeway's trust at that point.
 
Not "Jaris"? The one where Janeway and Paris..oh never mind.
No, that episode was called Play Dough's Children. Gumby and Pokey were supposed to be heavily featured in the Episode, but, they couldn't secure the Rights.

The only crime Janeway committed regarding The Twix episode is making the crew suffer through that creepy accident for so long, before she gave her crewmen back their lives.

Now,, if you want to put Janeway on trial, you need only go back to the early S1 episode where she's jonesing so badly for a cup of coffee she brutalizes and almost kills the Sentient Space Anomaly, cackling about how much she's gonna enjoy that cup.

Disclaimer: I'm very sorry Kathryn
 
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I like to think of that one as "Tom Paris's Experiment with Talaxian Ganja-weed". He wakes up on the Doctor's table and says: "I had this crazy dream... I went warp 10, then I died, then I pulled out my tongue, then I turned into a salamander, and then the captain and I... never mind."
 
Hm. A thread challenging people to come up with obviously-unintended interpretations of events seen in episodes could have some entertainment value...

Reminds me of a complaint from a 'highbrow' literature writer about how professional literary critics and scholars always managed to find entire layers of meanings, symbolism and hidden motifs in his work he never had even suspected himself :)
 
I once got asked whether I'd meant to code a protagonist in something I'd written as gay. I wasn't sure whether I -had- coded them that way or whether the person asking was seeing things that weren't there.
 
Reminds me of a complaint from a 'highbrow' literature writer about how professional literary critics and scholars always managed to find entire layers of meanings, symbolism and hidden motifs in his work he never had even suspected himself :)
I’ve read about a well known author who was hired as a guest lecturer for a literature course. Apparently, the guy got fed up with students arguing with him about meanings, purposes in his books and walked out.

I can’t recall who it was.
 
Hi,

I do not remember what the episode is called, but Tom Paris has an affair with the beautiful wife of a respected scientist. My hypothesis is that Tom really did commit the murder and Tuvok got him off it with some bullshit. Why? Well, because he is Tom Paris, obviously. The scientist witnessed his murder with his own eyes, the evidence against Tom was concrete and undeniable. I wonder about this episode. What are your thoughts about Tom's guilt?
Beware of assimilating a large amount of VOY episodes that might be overwhelming, leading to unconventional conclusions. "The Voyager Conspiracy" - part II.
 
I once got asked whether I'd meant to code a protagonist in something I'd written as gay. I wasn't sure whether I -had- coded them that way or whether the person asking was seeing things that weren't there.

What does "coded" mean? Even the ever-reliable Urban Dictionary didn't have it.
 
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