Was Ethan secretly fired?

[Guy Gardener]

Homestead is so weird. It really doesn't make any sense.

I noticed this however: Neelix's "girlfriends" name is Dexa.

Dexa spelled backwards is "axeD" which is another word for fired.

Were the writing staff giving us a secret coded message about what really happened to Ethan?

(National Treasure II is rape.)

 

[number6]

It's more literal than that. Dexa is "Axed" backwards. Ethan was killed with a hatchet in an insane rampage. The entire cast was maimed. They continued the rest of the series with sock puppets. No one noticed.

 

[Jeri]

If you play the episode backwards, it says "Paul is Dead."

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Considering that the series ended about two episodes later pretty much everybody on the cast was "fired" (or perhaps more correctly: their contracts ran out).

 

[Praetor]

I wonder why they did decide to write him out early, really? If he stayed with the crew that long, why suddenly have him find some Talaxians to hang with?

 

[Phillip Culley]

I just felt bad for Neelix following the end of Endgame - we see Seven playing e-mail chess or whatever with him, she tells him that they'll talk tomorrow, and that's the last we hear from the guy. I still have this image of him trying to call Seven the next day, with no-one answering

 

[Bacl]

I just felt bad for Neelix following the end of Endgame - we see Seven playing e-mail chess or whatever with him, she tells him that they'll talk tomorrow, and that's the last we hear from the guy. I still have this image of him trying to call Seven the next day, with no-one answering

I never thought about it like that!

In all honesty, Neelix probably had to assume they were...destroyed.

Here's hoping the poor guy didn't leave the asteroid in a ship looking for them.

 

[miraclefan]

It's more literal than that. Dexa is "Axed" backwards. Ethan was killed with a hatchet in an insane rampage. The entire cast was maimed. They continued the rest of the series with sock puppets. No one noticed.

WOW! I thought they were ALWAYS sock puppets

 

[Anwar]

Except for Beltran, he was played by a plank.

 

[number6]

Except for Beltran, he was played by a plank.

Since "Caretaker."

 

[Tachyon]

I just felt bad for Neelix following the end of Endgame - we see Seven playing e-mail chess or whatever with him, she tells him that they'll talk tomorrow, and that's the last we hear from the guy. I still have this image of him trying to call Seven the next day, with no-one answering

Aww. Never thought about that. Well, I'm sure he got a word from them later on.

 

[Stag]

I just felt bad for Neelix following the end of Endgame - we see Seven playing e-mail chess or whatever with him, she tells him that they'll talk tomorrow, and that's the last we hear from the guy. I still have this image of him trying to call Seven the next day, with no-one answering

Sort of like that scene in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' where the operator can;t get the call through and he goes off the deep end and shaves his nipples and eyebrows...yipes

 

[Lynx]

I don't know how and why they decided to ditch Neelix three episodes from the end but it was so incredible stupid. The guy had always stated that he would remain loyal to captain Janeway, that he wanted to go to Earth with the rest of the crew and he called himself "morele officer". Then suddenly they run into a bunch of Talaxians of all people on a remote asteroid so incredible far away from Talaxian space (and the Talaxian spaceships weren't comparable to Voyager in speed and anything else either) and suddenly Neelix decides to tsay with them. How incredible silly!

 

[Tachyon]

Neelix should have most definitely arrived to the AQ with the rest of the crew. Earth could have needed a little leola root revolution.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ethan had an interview once where he assured us that neelix was deeply in love with Kathryn but he wasn't good enough for her, so he'd never burden her with his feelings (Much like Delenn and Lineer from babylon 5 which was scripted and obvious.), which is all Ethan and flavoured most everything the writers who were clueless about Ethans secret romantic agenda then gave him to play out...

But these Talaxians, they were stupid like children, maybe even retarded children and if he left them alone out there then they surely would have died. Could this hedgehog leave the burden on his conscience? To love some lady from affar with the utmost respect while the "last" of his people are being victimized and exterminated by scummy space pirate thugs?

Enteprise copied this episode with Marauders, and they also copied Blazing Saddles with the town moving dupe in the end, then i suppose Lost copied them both at the climax of last season, but T'Pol said something of infinite intelligence I have rarely seen in Voyager or Enterprise "Short of killing these Klingons there is nothing that we can do that will not make this situation worse." but I suppose T"pol never considered leaving man behind.

Neelix became that colonies Caretaker as patronisticaly and condesendingly as possible and Kathy didn't seem to recall a word of that rant she gave Banjoman 7 years earlier.

 

[Hermiod]

Ethan Phillips wasn't fired, what would be the point with only a few episodes to go.

No, the powers that be just decided to give his character a happy ending given that they only had a few episodes left.

 

[Guy Gardener]

So, you don't believe in the secret messages the bearded wisemen from last century left within the scripts of Voyager to explain to us the reality behind everything, a "Voyager Code" if you will?

 

[Hermiod]

^Not really, no. I wish Voyager's writers were quite that imaginative.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Except for Beltran, he was played by a plank.

Now that's just insulting to the plank.

 

[Akiraprise]

Awww, what about the stump? Stumpy's feelings are going to be hurt when he's found out he's been replaced by a processed, fake version of his former wooden self.