#neelix hate

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Someone was worried that someday someone might say Voyager was their favorite Star Trek, so they made Neelix to ensure that would never, ever happen.

me (whose favorite Star Trek is Voyager) explaining Neelilx

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i forgot neelix came over all controlling this early on like shit he’s been on the ship like two episodes, he really was always an asshole to kes

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Star Trek: Voyager Overview For starters, Star Trek: Voyager wasn't placed at some random ass time off in Lala Land that makes it stand off on its own as a show. It actually starts during the war in Next Generation, the same war that DS9 (Deep Space Nine) spends a lot of time on. With that, in order to keep the canon closer to, you know, being as manageable as the other two shows were in their final hours or mid run, they launched the first ever lead female Captain into the delta quadrant, aka the other side of the fucking Galaxy. Nice job there writers, good one. Plot The premise of the story is that Captain Janeway and her silly sized speeder ship are tossed across the galaxy in a horrific ‘thing’ that not only kills half her crew but also half of the Maquis that they were fighting with at the time. So, with one ship, and barely a crew, she is faced with the choice of giving the depraved people of that Quadrant unrestricted transport power or spending seventy years in the Delta Quadrant. She ultimately decides to do what's best for the Federation and not her crew. The story follows her and her crew across the galaxy on their trying journey to return home. Characters In order to utilize the more well-known characters of series I'm omitting a couple of reoccurring characters. Starting with the lowest member on the Totem pole, it was a three way tie for worst character between Chakotay, Neelix, and Harry. As Harry ends up with the least over all power, he is lowest. 9) Harry Kim: Boy is he boring. What can I say, he's blah. He's like, as if all the Asian stereotypes just eased up a bit. With his shy awkwardness and complete lack of know-how, he is still somehow one of the most capable people on the ship. He's also whiny, just, super duper whiny. It's always something. 8) Neelix: He is by far the worst. I mean he's just about the most grating thing on earth. He's annoying and terrible and I wish he would die. Oh wait, he does, and yet somehow he comes back just to be more annoying and less purposeful. 7) Chakotay: I don't even really know how to start. I guess the best way to put it is if we replaced him with a plank of wood, the only thing that would really change is that fewer shuttles would be broken and it would feel less like indigenous people around the world's cultures were being exploited to make him identifiable as a person. He's the Captain of the rebel ship and the Commander of Voyager. 6) Kes: She wasn't bad necessarily. She just wasn't good. Plus her relationship with Neelix really put a damper on her character overall. He just ruins everything. The next two are, in my mind at least, the true turning point in the show’s list of characters and really, they both are so great that they made a great couple; so I'm merely going to put them in the same slot on the Totem pole. 5) Tom Paris: Helm boy had a great character arc and it pains me that I must place him so low on my list. Really though, he is the start of what helped Voyager have amazing moments. At the start of the show he was a young man with little restraint who was pulled from a penal colony by Janeway and by the end he was a responsible, mature Lieutenant who had just become a father and a husband. He saved Voyager and many members of her crew with his incredible flying skills, designed a new kind of shuttle, and even his frequent nostalgia for the 20th century proved to be useful and helped save the crew. He was a funny, charming, and total womanizer who turned into a truly responsible man. 5) Be'Lanna Torres: Half Klingon, half human, all sass and smarts. She's a modern Scotty with a temper and a character arc that has setbacks throughout the years. As a former rebel, she has some fundamental differences from the Federation crew and she also has some moments where her mental health is questionable and begs for the presence of someone like Counselor Troi onboard. She's the head engineer, and over her seven years aboard Voyager, she saves the ship so many times that it's not really countable number. She becomes a mom and her new role is something we don't get to explore but her end is something that really exemplifies how far Voyager had come and how far it had yet to go during the last Season in an odd sort of parallel to the first Season when another crew member was pregnant. 4) The Doctor: What can I say, he's annoying, he's a hologram, he's sentient? So yeah, there is an awkward sort of dimension to him that he's a person who is also a hologram run by a computer and that he's also the same person who Robert Picardo always plays. Why is he up so far on the Totem pole per say, well his character forces the issue of wether or not a non autonomous technology based being be sentient and recognized as a person. 3) Tuvok: he's a friend of Janeway's from the past and the chief of security. What can I say, as a Vulcan he's cool. He helps Seven in her journey by explaining humanity and before she arrived was their attempt at a Spock character, a role which S Seven is much better suited for. He's pretty rad, and I can't say anything bad about him, though I am angry about what happens with him in the last episode. 2) Seven of nine: she was a character brought on to boost ratings, and by boost ratings I mean get more of the male target audience to tune in for some tits and ass (emphasis on the tits). She was one of the most blatantly over sexualized characters I have ever seen from the skin tight suit, corset to narrow her already small waist, and the completely unnecessary high heels. By any standards most characters with such flawed origins would be put on the bottom of the list for those traits, however, stronger writing than most characters see in this show and the brilliant acting choices by Jeri Ryan, who played her with very little emotion or reaction outside of complete condescension, saved this character from being another babe with no point outside of being hot (like Sigourney Weaver's character's character in Galaxy quest). Seven was awesome outside of being a character that is an actual character thats hot and recovering from that awful outfit and its many variations. Seven was a human child raised by the Borg and was for her human origins very important to the Borg queen before being severed from the Collective by Janeway. Her story is one of reclamation and also of balance. She is a character who like Be'Lanna is a half breed looking for her place in the world but unlike Be'Lanna she has only known one side of her, the Borg. With the help of Janeway she goes from a grudging captive to an irreplaceable part of the crew who starts and runs her own department and even is, in one character and nearly show destroying moment, a love interest to the plank of wood. She would be number one but, well Janeway did some pretty epic things and Seven was only there for four ish years. 1) Kathryn Janeway: Well she's the captain, she's also a badass that is highly dependent on coffee with serious guilt issues. To be fair, caffeine is life! She is the Shera to Picard's Heman, with her focus on diplomacy and her interesting mess of a crew. Janeway is a pretty interesting gal, she was raised by people who reject technology in their home beyond that of the 21st century while her father is an admiral in Starfleet. She suffers from what I like to call, the oldest sibling syndrome. She's a force of nature wrapped up in a tiny body and she commands respect. You'll hear more about her later in the reviews.

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Neelix could have been a really interesting character but like so much of Voyager the writers refused to take risks and go down the more complicated path and just decided to shove him into a box and as a result we got an annoying and mostly pointless character and that just frustrates me. 

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AU where Neelix isn't a character

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Are we seriously on the THIRD EPISODE IN A ROW with this stupid "Neelix is jealous of any man who breathes the same air as Kes" subplot kill me now.

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Can Neelix stay missing please.

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Voyager question: please tell me Neelix goes away dear god he is the worst character.