Star Trek: Voyager’s Tuvix & Captain Janeway Controversy Explained

The decision by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) on how to solve a problem like Tuvix (Tom Wright) is one of the biggest controversies in Star Trek: Voyager, if not the entire franchise. The Voyager episode “Tuvix” is an episode in the transporter malfunction subgenre. The transporter malfunction episode originated with the Star Trek: TOS episode “The Enemy Within”, in which Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) was split into a meek Dr. Jekyll-style character and a monstrous Mr. Hide figure. The primal Kirk attempted to sexually assault Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) but the reformed Kirk didn’t apologize or face any consequences for those actions at the end of the episode.