Chakotay was in Starfleet for twenty years before the series?

[Melakon]

^ That was a human, Reese (Patrick Kilpatrick), in DS9: The Siege of AR-558. It was tubes of ketracil white or however it's spelled.

 

[R. Star]

^ Like that one Klingon on DS9 who wore Jem'Hadar bones (or was it tubes of 'white'?) around his neck.

^ That was a human, Reese (Patrick Kilpatrick), in DS9: The Siege of AR-558. It was tubes of ketracil white or however it's spelled.

Think MLB mixed up two characters. The Reese one as Melakon mentioned. One of the Klingons from Soldiers of the Empire wore Cardassian neckbones. Similar theme.