Any reason why Neelix couldn't of come along to Earth?

[Kibbin]

The transwarp hub would be abandoned due to all the problems the Borg are having, 8472, unimatrix zero and I'm sure there was another major one, so they just up and leave. Meanwhile the Talaxians come in and take over. Sure you could find problems with this but I think it would still play better than the ending and not have one of the main stars leaving so close to the end but yet so far. Plus it would have kept the Borg out for the most part with just their tech on show.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

That's why his comment in "Homestead": "This might be the last time I see another Talaxian" had such an impact

Agree. Voyager was a story of lost souls voyaging home. In the beginning, Neelix fit that theme, being lost ( in his mind ) from Talax and its society after the holocaust of the Metreon cascade. He had begun a new relationship with Kes, and she was excited about going exploring with these "Federations" so naturally he came along too. He found a home of sorts on board Voyager, but the closer he came to the Alpha Quadrant the further he was from his own people, and that had to hurt. When he received the (writer's) gift of the last "Talaxian outpost" in the Delta Quadrant on that asteroid, he found what Janeway et al had been seeking for 7 long years. IMO, he'd have been a fool to pass it up, which was why Janeway bascially pushed her little spotted orange bird out of the nest.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The Borg assimilate civilizations, not individuals.

Sure they need to sample something new they've never seen before, but unless there's a planet full of tech and resources and warm bodies, dusting off their dancing shoes is hardly worth their while when encountering a technology and biology they already have catalogued.

Of course there would be different rules for those individuals who actually have the temerity to invade Borg Space. That's a question of collective security, not that they don't let armed starfleet officers wander about their Cubes planning their downfall?

 

[Tallis Rhul]

which was why Janeway bascially pushed her little spotted orange bird out of the nest.

Hopefully from a great height...

I think Neelix would have been lost on Earth, because he would have made the transition from being partially useful to really useless. After Starfleet had grilled him about the Delta-Quadrant etc he would pretty much have had nothing to do. After all, he couldn't really speak for his people or his quadrant.

 

[exodus]

That's why his comment in "Homestead": "This might be the last time I see another Talaxian" had such an impact

Agree. Voyager was a story of lost souls voyaging home. In the beginning, Neelix fit that theme, being lost ( in his mind ) from Talax and its society after the holocaust of the Metreon cascade. He had begun a new relationship with Kes, and she was excited about going exploring with these "Federations" so naturally he came along too. He found a home of sorts on board Voyager, but the closer he came to the Alpha Quadrant the further he was from his own people, and that had to hurt. When he received the (writer's) gift of the last "Talaxian outpost" in the Delta Quadrant on that asteroid, he found what Janeway et al had been seeking for 7 long years. IMO, he'd have been a fool to pass it up, which was why Janeway bascially pushed her little spotted orange bird out of the nest.

Yep.

It showed Neelix was secure enough the leave behind his surrogate family and now old enough to have a wife and step child of his own. Neelix was now a family man.

 

[Guy Gardener]

No.

He was a messiah.

Like Mad Max, he came up over the horizon and saved these people from their own fatal limitations and smallness, setting himself up as god emperor.

Sure he got some strange with a ready made family, but honestly, Neelix working against the standard of men inside that rock was a super rock star, so the rest of the female population is standing in line waiting for that relationship roll up into a tiny ball and implode.

If Neelix didn't understand this as the truth, and thought that "familyman" was as high as he could saw in this new climate, it's only because he thinks as Tallaxianly small as the people he rescued from moderately armed hobo bullies so that they could continue hiding under a rock to watch their population base shrink till they're living in Space-Deliverance.

Bidda bing bing bing bing bing bing bing.

 

[Lynx]

which was why Janeway bascially pushed her little spotted orange bird out of the nest.

Hopefully from a great height...

I think Neelix would have been lost on Earth, because he would have made the transition from being partially useful to really useless. After Starfleet had grilled him about the Delta-Quadrant etc he would pretty much have had nothing to do. After all, he couldn't really speak for his people or his quadrant.

I disagree. I think that there would have been a lot for Neelix to do in Federation space. He could have been a trader or opened a restaurant on Earth or at Deep Space Nine or he could have remained on Voyager as cook and Morale Officer for further missions in deep space.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Just thinking, that they didn't let him off the ship during futures end either?

he was going to spend the next 70 years trying to get to a planet he was already in orbit of and didn't even want to see if the place smelt nice?

But then he got to sit down with his girlfriend and watch the soaps, which is nice I suppose?

 

[exodus]

which was why Janeway bascially pushed her little spotted orange bird out of the nest.

Hopefully from a great height...

I think Neelix would have been lost on Earth, because he would have made the transition from being partially useful to really useless. After Starfleet had grilled him about the Delta-Quadrant etc he would pretty much have had nothing to do. After all, he couldn't really speak for his people or his quadrant.

I disagree. I think that there would have been a lot for Neelix to do in Federation space. He could have been a trader or opened a restaurant on Earth or at Deep Space Nine or he could have remained on Voyager as cook and Morale Officer for further missions in deep space.

For 7 years everyone complained about how bad a cook he was, who would eat in a resturant if the Chef can't cook?

Voyager was home, their power & communication issues solved. They wouldn't need a cook nor a moral officer anymore.

Neelix had no wife or lover on Earth.

 

[Shazam!]

The Midus Array from "Pathfinder" allowed two-way contact with the Delta Quaderant, so Neelix could still keep in touch if he wanted.

Nobody in the Alpha Quadrant wants to keep in touch with him.

 

[exodus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5aivY9Ul8

 

[Mirror_Barclay]

No matter how much you love exploring, meeting aliens, seeing new places... even finding an adoptive new family... would you really choose to never see a human being again?

If you had finally found humans again, including a human of the gender you prefer who's interested in you?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Exotic sex fetishist would be all over Neelix, and hero-chasers too would be trying to bed any one from Voyager... He's a unique bonk if he'd finally arrived in the AQ... Hedgehog would have been swimming in tail.

Those "people" after escaping their halocaust, he found might have been Talaxian once, but now, they're only still talaxian in the same way that Seven of Nine is Human. Shadows and fracking echoes of unbroken people.

 

[MEATLOAFr]

They could have let him come along, and dissected him at Starfleet medical... to see why his cooking hasn't killed him yet.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The same could be said of any of the crew?

Srnd then into biohazard zones as peace keepers?

It could explain also why Seven of nine refused to eat for the first 3 years.

 

[sbk1234]

Just thinking, that they didn't let him off the ship during futures end either?

he was going to spend the next 70 years trying to get to a planet he was already in orbit of and didn't even want to see if the place smelt nice?

But then he got to sit down with his girlfriend and watch the soaps, which is nice I suppose?

Really, it was 20th century earth. How could an alien that disimilar to humans ever think to step onto Earth and not draw attention?


i'm a little surprised there hasn't been a fan-fic or book or something about the Federation going to rescue that colony and take them to the Alpha Quadrant where they could have a better place to live, deep in the Federation. Warm fuzzies all around.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Two words: Gimp mask.