Now, decades later, it is a flashpoint for the fandom. When “Tuvix” first aired in the back half of season 2, it was just another hour of television during a period of tremendous franchise activity. “Tuvix,” he tells me, “is definitely over-indexed for a character that’s only made one appearance.” And those conversations often turn toward the accidental hybrid who appeared on a single hour of Star Trek: Voyager in 1996. It’s “Tuvix.”Īs vice president of franchise planning & Star Trek brand development at ViacomCBS, John Van Citters spends a lot of time talking to creatives and fans about the Trek franchise. And when we cut back from commercials, just as a phaser-holding Harry Kim barks, “Identify yourself!” we read the episode’s title, and everything becomes clear. Tuvok, the steely Vulcan head of security, and Neelix, the gregarious Talaxian morale officer and chef, go down to take some samples.īut as the familiar whir of the transporter beams the away team back, it’s not Tuvok or Neelix who emerge back onto the pad, but a single life-form.
Lost 70,000 light-years from home, the team is there to retrieve some flowers that might be a “valuable nutritional substitute,” as the captain’s log puts it. One day in the Delta Quadrant, Captain Janeway and the crew of the USS Voyager find themselves on a planet so unremarkable we never even learn its name.
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