What were normal Voyager crewmen (outside the senior staff) thinking about Kes, Neelix and Seven?

[BohandiAnsoid]

Because Voyager focuses mostly on the main characters and their interactions, we don't really know anything about how people outside them thought about Kes, Neelix and Seven of Nine. And I think this is an interesting thing. Kes and Neelix are both from new species. Kes is quite unusual and also genuinely friendly to everyone. Neelix tries to do his best, but can be too eager to help. And Seven… she is a former Borg, when the Borg is an existing threat, might have hurt families or friends of some members of the crew. Not to mention, her personality may be… annoying to some. The cold, efficient Borg mindset.

What do you think about this?

 

[Hawku]

For Neelix and Kes, I think they'd be welcoming and curious with eventual turned stomachs from leeola root mixtures. For Seven, they'd be apprehensive and a little scared for a while with eventual learning that Borg are great.

 

[Starflight]

For anyone in Starfleet, meeting new species or befriending formerly-hostile ones is basically the most exciting thing in the world to them, so they'd probably all be hyped.

Maquis maybe less so, but even they were born and raised in the utopian, egalitarian, 24th century Federation, so presumably have at least a vaguely positive outlook toward things like species diversity.