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Neelix won the Klingon by stealing her from Harry Kim. So as usual, it it's Harry Kuk
can hardly consider that stealing if harry didn't really want it in the first place. does it make you one if someone bangs the girl you reject?
That explains why Chakotay's tribe is bascially scientology, right down to the "vision quest" e-meter and space alien prophets.
that and shit writing mostly. like b'elanna constantly having klingon troubles because of her ridges or chakotay being "the indian".
It would have worked if Kes didn't appear so childlike, and Ethan Philips as an actor could say "sweetie" without sounding a total creep.
They ended up doing relationship drama pretty well with Tom and B'Ellana.
like I said, that pairing never really made sense, people still notice stuff that's not even right in their face. even if his actor could've nailed it it would still feel off.
sperging about the writing in voyager made me think of something else, I think the biggest issue with neelix specifically was that his character background and the character we actually get clashes hard, and the writers hardly ever tried to remedy that. for most of the series neelix gets treated as the annoying curiosity/comedy relief and all other characters at best rather not deal with him so the viewer has no reason to "respect" him either. for other characters it's implied being career starfleet personnel following their procedures (but they're quite pigeneonholed too, see b'elanna biggest issue is being a klingon), however it's hardly ever mentioned outside the episodes they needed it for drama that neelix survived getting his moon bombed, probably a shitload of people close to him killed, then venturing out on it's own and actually surviving all that shit. yet he's still that happy optimistic guy. or maybe he's just so close to the edge it doesn't take much to slaughter everyone in a PTSD rage.
would've loved to see neelix going all out when shit hit the fan in a way that would make even suder reconsider, doing what needs to be done and be fucking good at it (and would repeat the age-old lesson to never mess with the cook).
but that would add depth to the character, and we can't have that on voyager.
To anyone who suffered through Picard: Is it ever referenced that Icheb was bred specifically to infect the Borg with a pathogen coded into his DNA?
Very appalled to learn that Seven mercy-kills Icheb, especially since he saved her life in Voyager by donating his cortical node.
don't think he was specifically conceived for that, they were simple farmers for the most part, they just need someone who was likely to be assimilated. all things considered that the leaders were willing to sacrifice their own son and not someone else looked more like sheer desperation than cold calculation, it was either that or the borg over time assimilating most of them.
star trek: patrick is non-canon anyway.