Neelix is a valuable memer of our crew
At first he was kinda dumb and ignorant and kinda little annoying and I actually enjoyed him becoming a better person and learning to help others in the ship besides his cooking skills.
He really does have the best character arc outside of the Fleet regulars. Gets over the jealously crap with Kes and Paris, deals with her leaving, removes a few atoms off the chip on Tuvok’s shoulder, and regains Janeway’s respect after some bonehead decisions.
Honestly I agree with this, he has a great character arc. He can’t grow and learn and become a better person if he doesn’t start out as kind of a shit, that’s the fucking point.
(It’s still a funny joke in my opinion)
He did save them from starvation.
one thing I never understood.
if the replicator can take stuff and turn it into energy (see that rant after… year of hell? with the stopwatch.) why the fuck did they never just find an empty system somewhere with some rocks floating around and scoop them up for the replicators to “recylcle”?
They run on energy, and they didn’t have a place to refuel, so they had to ration their energy use.
Because plot contrivance is a Star Trek writer’s prime directive
I remember they babbling about some reason (preserving their deuterium reserves, I think). But it’s not one that makes sense.
My headcanon is that only replicated things can be reabsorbed like that, bc otherwise you’re right and almost everything can be recycled. maybe it’s not efficient enough to do with random rocks, but if that’s the case then I don’t see how a stopwatch could be a meaningful amount of energy
I think it would take much more energy to grow the food they need than to just replicate it. That said, if I was stuck for 7 years in space, fresh fruits and vegetables would be the cheapest form of therapy.
If they needed more energy to grow food than to replicate it, replication would be so dirt-cheap that nothing would make any sense.
I will not stand for this Neelix slander (sits down).
“When we met this adult man, he was dating a 2 year old. Let’s have him babysit Naomi!”
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Would I have accepted his weight in dilithium? Yes. Could I have filled the empty void in my heart? Never.
There were definitely some episodes of Voyager where I couldn’t stand Neelix, but I know if I had been on Voyager, I would have loved him. His role as “morale officer” might be a bit similar to Naomi being Captain’s assistant, but I think he actually does a very good job
The episode where Neelix dies and gets ressurrected by Borg technology is up there as one of the best Voyager episodes. I’m just annoyed that Neelix’s new relationship with religion and death never comes up again in later episodes.
