Why Neelix?
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i dont ever remember hearing anything, but needed to bring the show to a close. thin the crew out and not everyone has the same goals to get to Earth.
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didn't he get an honorary assignment, federation ambassador to the dq or so? makes sense to remain there in this case. i found more confusing how this group of talaxians got there, 30,000 or 40,000 ly from their homeworld. aboard a shuttle of the sort neelix had? well, you can't introduce fresh aliens in every episode, but voy went occasionally to far.
I feel they wanted to bring closer to his character. So we could be happy for him and know that he would be happy with his own kind, making a difference among his people. He was in endgame talking to Seven they were playing cotta scott (?sp)
I don't think it was for any reason other than closer. They waited for the very last ep before the finale.
I don't think it was for any reason other than closer. They waited for the very last ep before the finale.
Closure is one possibility.
My guess is that they did it because they loved him.
There wasn't room to do him justice in Endgame so he got his own farewell.
Really they should have got home half way through season 7 an evey one would have/should have gotten their own episodes about how it was to admit the journey was over.
My guess is that they did it because they loved him.
There wasn't room to do him justice in Endgame so he got his own farewell.
Really they should have got home half way through season 7 an evey one would have/should have gotten their own episodes about how it was to admit the journey was over.
I never considered this option, I rather like it
Neelix winds up with the most closure out of everyone.
You mean of course, with the exception of Joe Carey?
True...
Physically, yeah but I think they can still talk to him using the Midas Array.
Play Cottis Cot with him even.
Though those two rescue ships (lifeline. Although convoy or rendezvous?) were four years away Neelix when Voyager Bunny hopped over them right back to earth.
That was plenty of time for his relationship to go to hell and sign up with a new Starfleet crew that was heading back into the DQ where his knowledge on the matter could prove invaluable to those ships mission... What classification and girth of Starship would Starfleet be building which was intentionallyintending to voyage out to the other side of the galaxy for the sake of scientific curiosity? How huge with how many thousand (TNG Ensigns of Command talked about Colony vessels which could carry over 20 thousand souls.) crew would Star fleet consider when they're putting together certainly a generation mission if they weren't stacking the deck with Vulcans and Kelvans.
Neelix would have had two chances to head back to Tallax, and there might have been room for the whole colony to follow him if they got bored of living in a rock watching their children breed with their cousins.
Though those two rescue ships (lifeline. Although convoy or rendezvous?) were four years away Neelix when Voyager Bunny hopped over them right back to earth.
That was plenty of time for his relationship to go to hell and sign up with a new Starfleet crew that was heading back into the DQ where his knowledge on the matter could prove invaluable to those ships mission... What classification and girth of Starship would Starfleet be building which was intentionallyintending to voyage out to the other side of the galaxy for the sake of scientific curiosity? How huge with how many thousand (TNG Ensigns of Command talked about Colony vessels which could carry over 20 thousand souls.) crew would Star fleet consider when they're putting together certainly a generation mission if they weren't stacking the deck with Vulcans and Kelvans.
Neelix would have had two chances to head back to Tallax, and there might have been room for the whole colony to follow him if they got bored of living in a rock watching their children breed with their cousins.
There was no logic at all.Just a stupid way to dump the character three episodes before the end.
Why they did it, I don't know. I don't think there were any personal conflits or so in that case. Maybe they just wanted to annoy some fans.
Was it a bad ending for him, do you think, Lynx? It was a bit of a shock not to have the crew return together. But I thought it kind of tied together many aspects of his character and aspirations.
I think it was because the vast majority of regular Voyager viewers didn't like him, and they wanted to dump him off to make room for the other characters' subplots during the final episode. Personally, I'm just sad that they didn't dump him off sooner and replace him with a mysterious, badass Worfesque type character.
Agreed.
The show was about going "home", but what home was there on Earth for Neelix? Once Voyager got "home", the crew would split and go their separate ways. There was no "Kes" to set up housekeeping with, and he hadn't found anyone to replace her, unless you count Janeway and I really don't think Neelix's luck was running THAT good.
By finding that impossible asteroid with those Talaxians on it, they were able to give Neelix the choice offered to Voyager's crew in "The 37's", and unlike the Voyager crew he took his only chance at truly finding a home. When Voyager left that planet 6 years ago, they were traveling closer to home. But had Neelix turned down this opportunity, he would have continued to travel further from his home.
Neelix finally did something just for him. He left Voyager for a chance at a family that loved him for being himself. A Talaxian man, husband, father.
Well said.
Voyager brought back Quantum Slipstream technology (and Borg Transwarp and Lizard Transwarp). In the continuation novels, Starfeet's built a new slipstream fleet, and retrofitted a bunch of older craft. Voyager's back in the DQ, without fear of being stranded, and only ever a few months from home.
If they ever do a Voyager reunion TV movie (not likely
), heading back to the DQ in a slipstream-powered Voyager II, picking up Neelix on the way, would be easy.Similar threads
