Neelix is in SO many scenes that he shouldn't be. Any time Janeway and the senior staff are talking about the problem of the week in the staff room, he's there roughly half the time... He shouldn't be there ever. He's the cook. And he can barely even do that competently.
For being a supposed normie, Tom Paris is the most competent member of the entire Voyager crew. He did everything, from piloting, to engineering, to medical. And a bunch of other things I'm probably forgetting. He literally designed the Delta Flyer by himself on a whim.
This really says something about late 2300s Starfleet.
He also created Ireland Simulator 2377, which isn't a point in his favor, but they did achieve self-awareness. And that was something he worked on in his spare time.
Vic's on DS9 makes quite a contrast with holo-Ireland. You learned basically nothing new about the Voyager crew through those episodes aside from Janeway feeling lonely and horny.
They could, and should, have made Paris the Han Solo of the ship. Shit hot pilot, can fly anything, good in a crisis, but NEVER looks before he leaps, pretty much only listens to orders when it suits him, and is really hot headed at times. Use him as the guy who doesn't understand the scientific concepts and the other characters need to explain it to him in words normal people can get. He isn't slow or anything, just he didn't go to any academy and isn't educated, but he's also the only one on the ship with any street smarts and put him in situations where that pays off too.
Yeah. @JustSomeDong was saying the reddit faggots (reddiggots? Fagdits?) will buy a lot, but it's the equivalent of having 10 people give you $500 each vs a million people giving you $5.
Agreed. Unfortunately they completely de-toothed him a few seasons in. If I were feeling particularly cynical in a moment I'd say that it's probably because this Han Solo-esque position would put him at odds with Janeway and Janeway must always win.
The last time I remember seeing Trek toys (not just collector shit on a web storefront) is 2009 Trek movie merch in Big Lots, a few years after the film had aired. I bought a Spock, and on retrospect wish I still had it: it was scaled like GI Joes and had swappable hands and decent articulation.
He's also the one person in all of Star Trek that realized touch controls are fucking awful for controlling things.
Yes this is true, but I think that had more to do with Tom being a major "ancient" history nerd and wanting his ship to be more like something from his cheesy holo novels.
It's too bad they never did a Top Gun style episode where he buzzes the bridge with the Delta Flyer making Janeway spill her coffee on herself. And with his "ancient" knowledge he should have suggested using firearms against Borg. Shields can't stop a .45 ACP. Two World Wars and Two Quadrants!
Only person who knew the firearms and kinetic weapons will work on the Borg was Picard and literally everyone thought he's got sudden onset stark raving mad retarded. When he was telling the crew how to fight the borg using their phaser rifles as clubs in First Contact. Wouldn't be years later until the more attentive trekkies and Star Trek fans realized Picard was right on how to fight them.
When the average Borg drone is strong and impact resistant enough to reasonably fight The Rock, Lt Hawk using the butt of his rifle isn't going to do much. Before you say Worf and his sword, remember that Worf is in the gym every day or on the holodeck playing He-Man with the safety turned off.
Normally and ideally would be to put as much space between themselves and borg while engaging them. However given the situation at hand there is no more space and the borg have to be stop right there or else it's game over for humanity and the Federation.
In STO it and Zefram Cochrane's shotgun functionally are standard pick up for nearly all players against the borg. Except against the Mirror Universe borg who are all wearing mostly impervious body armor to projectile weapons.. In which elemental type weapons are needed to either freeze them or fry them.
That doesn't change the physical fact that Borg are stronger than humans. Basically anyone who isn't Worf gets thrown on their ass every time they try to melee a Borg drone.