he is the worst regular in all of the treks I have seen (TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY/ENT)

his whole thing is representing White american baby boomer dudes

boring as shit

doesn’t belong in space

Torres can do so much better.

I don’t believe this shit about being such a hot shot pilot.

I think he was sent by the CIA.

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      Neelix was annoying because his used car salesman with-a-heart-of-gold personality was completely wasted on the Starfleet crew

      The whole point of his character in the first season was to act as a guide thru an unknown region, instead of becoming a boring cook, he should’ve become the Quark of Voyager, an opportunistic trader and part-time ambassador who would secure the goods but habitually set the b-plot into motion cause he got in over his head trying to acquire 6 months worth of fuel (and a sizable cut for himself) by selling one of the holodecks without the captains’ knowledge

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      well they BOTH want Kes, the child. So no points awarded either way.

      neelix is corny or whatever but he doesn’t represent the eternal supremacy of White Men over space. which paris does.

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            I never took it that way at least. Tom was developing a friendship with Kes which made Neelix jump to conclusions cause he’s Neelix. Although someone did mention an alternate timeline episode where he marries Kes, I don’t remember that episode cause voyager is forgettable af, but from my recollection he didn’t seem to have any romantic or sexual intent and Star Trek tends to make that super obvious.

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            its kinda wild how they would run things like discovery for many seasons and episodes but when they actually have a good show they do it for 4 seasons 10 episodes each which is like fucking nothing

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              They both had equal amounts of seasons. I agree with the sentiment tho. Disco was dead mid season 2, no pun intended, but lower decks has LEGS. That show could have just kinda kept going. George Takei even said so after appearing.

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              Yeah, seriously. At least they haven’t axed Strange New Worlds yet, but it was painful going back and watching Discovery only to find out that SNW was a spinoff of that dumpster fire. Here’s hoping that the new Michelle Yeoh Trek project doesn’t turn out to be absolute ass, but I’m not holding my breath. It seems weird to me that this is the first Trek movie since the Abrams reboot movies.

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                  Oh, it was just more trash on the trash heap, but at least she was having fun with it. That, I can get behind. But yeah, those first few seasons leaned way too hard on mirror universe shit.

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                    It’s not just that there’s a lot of mirror universe shit, it’s that the Rick Berman created space CIA hires mirror universe cannibal super Hitler to Make Hard Choices for them

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                  I did try watching disco, the earlier seasons, 2 or 3 times, but I couldn’t get it and/or what I did get I hated. It was a mess and mostly I don’t remember it but I do recall that character making some stupid as fuck gay jokes about the mirror universe. They seemed intended to make her seem cool and didn’t work. in my mind.

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            Not in my heart and I’ve heard the comics are neat and a recent one did a choose your own adventure structure with a twist. Batman did that once where it was a riddler story and you had to figure out that all the cyoa results end in death but reading all extra panels you’ll notice you never get to on any try in order solves it. If it’s thst cool I’m subscribing cause also getting stsr trek comics in the mail seems fun