Star Trek: 10 Annoying Characters Who Really Should Have Died

2. Neelix

neelix Ah yes! Star Trek's answer to Jar-Jar Binks! Somebody obviously had a great idea over at the Voyager writing studio: why not have a real, honest-to-goodness alien on the show? Why not indeed? But let's not give him the manners of a nineteenth-century gentleman and all the innate charisma and depth of feeling of a potato. Incredibly self-assured, talking down to people he should really have been looking up to, and basically considering himself Janeway's deputy when all he really held was an empty title --- "Morale Officer"? Could there be a less suitable candidate for the role? --- until later he became ambassador. And of what? His whole race had been wiped out. How do you make representations on behalf of a dead race? And isn't it just a little convenient that he happened to be off-planet the day his planet got smoked? Hmm. You'd have to ask a whole lot of Star Trek fans before you got to one who actually liked, or could even stand Neelix. I dreaded when an episode began with him and Tuvok in a shuttle, because you just had this sinking feeling the episode was going to revolve around the little Talaxian. And speaking of Tuvok: how he didn't hit him when he kept calling him "Mister Vulcan" I don't know. Guess that's the famous control on emotions Tuvok's race have, but even then it must have been hard. And they got rid of Kes! And kept Neelix! Were they asleep at the helm on that series? Is that even a necessary question?
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