In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

  • TotallyNotSpez@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    78
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    Star Trek (Voyager): Was it murder to split Tuvix back into Tuvok and Neelix?

    I’ve got a long and complex possible solution to offer regarding this ethical clusterfuck, and I’m willing to elaborate if someone’s interested to hear it.

    Edit (possible solution): Voyager’s database should include the Enterprise D’s information regarding Riker’s duplication incident. While Voyager’s crew already found a way to separate Tuvix, they could’ve searched for a possibility to repeat that process and then split back the copy Tuvix a few milliseconds into the original Tuvok and Neelix before said copy became self-aware.

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 hours ago

      They should have just kept replicating Tuvix with the transporter and using him as fuel.

    • LoveRainbow@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      14 hours ago

      The Riker split depended on a plant on that one particular planet. Maybe it cannot be replicated.

      Fully embracing that technology would have loads of chaotic outcomes…maybe they forbade it or something? Ripe for abuse…the ability to make infinite free clones or people…

    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      14 hours ago

      They used a transporter, so yes.

      Every use of a transporter where someone is disassembled is murder, or possibly suicide.

      • starik@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        13 hours ago

        Yes, they could have just printed out a new copy of Tuvok and Neelix, and left Tuvix alone. The restriction that you can’t just make copies never made sense. Are there souls in Star Trek? Is the soul the thing that is actually be “transported” into a new body substrate?

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      19 hours ago

      they did it again LTD. anyways, janeway practically groomed 7 of 9, not in a sexual way but trying to mold her into a daughter she never had.