Tom Wright spoke on his interpretation of the character in 1997; he felt the two constituent halves of Tuvix "represent[ed] the left and the right side of the brain-where one is weak the other is strong, and vice versa."[REF] .
In his 2005 book, Teleportation: The Impossible Leap, David J. Darling notes that while Tuvix was well-liked by other characters, his fate was in fact ultimately determined not by his arguments or the decision of the captain, but by the "[e]nsemble casting and contractual arrangements" of the show [REF].