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The Tuvix trial

Darth Thanos

Lieutenant Commander
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Is there any novel about Janeway, once back on Earth, facing a court martial over the whole Tuvix thing?

If it's an official thing (novel, comic, videogame or whatever), so much the better. If not, I can accept fanfics.
 
It was a no-win scenario. Imagine if Samantha Wildman and Tom Paris were the two crewmembers blended together? Imagine Janeway explaining to Naomi and B’Elanna why they would forever be without their loved ones?

Janeway was extremely lucky that Neelix had no surviving relatives and Tuvok’s wife was a logical Vulcan living in another quadrant.
 
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%200 percent canon.
 
Is there any novel about Janeway, once back on Earth, facing a court martial over the whole Tuvix thing?

No, nor is there any reason to believe there should be. Captains often have to order officers to their death. That's part of their responsibility. Janeway sacrificed one member of her crew to save the lives of two members of her crew. She had an impossibly hard decision to make, one where there was no good outcome and there were strong arguments on both sides, and ultimately it came down to her command judgment, which is a captain's whole damn job. It was ambiguous enough that there was probably some debate, some hard questioning about her reasons for her decision, but I see no evidence that a crime was committed.

The only reason Kirk was court-martialed for Ben Finney's apparent death in "Court Martial" was because the doctored evidence showed him jettisoning the pod before there was an imminent threat to the lives of his crew. In reality, once that threat became imminent, he was considered justified in making the painful choice to sacrifice one crew member to save the greater number. We've seen captains do that many times, sending officers on likely suicide missions (Sito Jaxa, Spock in "The Immunity Syndrome"), sealing off a breached section with crew inside to save the rest of the crew, or even killing officers who've become threats (Gary Mitchell, the Borg-assimilated crew in First Contact). That's within a captain's lawful responsibilities when it becomes necessary. If Tuvix had lived, Tuvok and Neelix would have both "died." The threat to their lives was imminent and self-evident. Either way, at least one crew member would have been lost, so it's impossible to say that one choice was clearly wrong and the other right. Janeway chose two people's lives over one, which is a simplistic way to make the choice ("I refuse to let arithmetic decide such questions" -- Jean-Luc Picard, 2364), but the only available basis when all other factors balance out.
 
I did recently wonder how things might have turned out if there had been a hearing in the style of "Deathwish" rather than a summary judgment by Janeway, and I think maybe TPTB would have gone that route if they'd been willing to make the episode a two-parter, but we got what we got, and it was very much a Kobayashi Maru. I don't agree with Janeway's decision, but I understand her reasoning.
 
The real crime is what happened to Neevok after all this. Drugging and stashing him down below to slave away in Voyager's shuttle factory alongside Gilmore and the Equinox crew.
 
we got what we got, and it was very much a Kobayashi Maru. I don't agree with Janeway's decision, but I understand her reasoning.

Yeah -- the whole point was that there was no right answer, just an agonizing choice between two wrongs. And it was obvious from the start that the show was never going to fire two of its leads mid-season, so it was always a given that Tuvok and Neelix would be restored; it was just a question of how. The episode could've taken the easy way out and had Tuvix voluntarily sacrifice himself, or said that the merger was unstable and would kill Tuvix if it wasn't reversed, but instead they took the bolder choice that made it a more powerful and thought-provoking story.
 
I'm very glad TPTB opted not to go the more comedic route that the original writers of the episode apparently opted for (per Memory Alpha). I can see how it would have worked, but I think the serious approach to the situation is ultimately much more compelling.
 
There is a long discussion of the Tuvix situation in The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, but no mention of a trial.

If you want to see an alternative solution to the Tuvix dilemma, read the story "Tashayarasha Tyar" from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Warped - An Engaging Guide to the Never-Aired 8th Season.
 
Tuvok went space crazy in the end.

All Admiral Janeway had to do to save him, was go back in time to this episode and advocate that Tuvix is better than Space Crazy, and clarify that since Kes dumps Neelix in a month, that her opinion is bullshit.

Also..

How much of Tuvix's vile personality is the sentient syphilis that we don't find out about until Flashback, because that living microorganism might have had a larger attribution to his personality than Kes' transplanted Lung that was eventually going to apotheosize Tuvix into a god the same as Kes, if he had been around for 8472.
 
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