In SNW Chapel is a civilian working on a starship because she’s just that good or something, by TOS she’s joined Starfleet.

I watched most of the first episode but had to leave the couch for real world reasons (tragedy). So far it’s fantastic! Verymuch not Star Trek which is a nice change and unusual for me. Thanks for the recommendation!

I really have to watch this show, I keep hearing great things

Survivor(star)ship bias: There are only episodes about minor issues with the inertial dampeners because major issues with the system would be very short and messy, and not make for good archival training footage for cadets or whatever the Watsonian reason for our Doyalist TV show may be.

In a toga, that changes the audience age rating.

Could be. I’m average height and it’s 4am. Clearly this is subjective.

Hers is hiked up a lot higher.

They train this breed with quintotrintacale treats.

Well I love your combination of humor with deeper lore appreciation. It makes it fun for newbies like myself.

I see what you mean, and I wish we could have had more Neelix, as I really do like him as a character, more than even Tuvix (why couldn’t Janeway just transporter clone Tuvix and then disassemble one?). I just personally think it’d be having our cake and eating it too in order to both put his character arc at a conclusion or resting point, and get to see him with Voyager to the last moment.

Neelix was always a wanderer, and since his planet was assaulted and his people genocidally attacked to the point of a thin diaspora, he was really adrift. Kes’s kindness and love (as weird as it is) cracked his shell enough for him to be able to try trusting Voyager when he first meets it. Voyager teaches him to open up. Kes leaving teaches him to let go. Learning to let go let’s him process the tragedy of the loss of his family. Through the strength of self he’s gained on Voyager, through learning to love and nurture Naomi Wildman and to serve as part of the crew, Neelix has become a whole person again, but not without scars. When he met a holdout group of Talaxians with no real leadership, he saw an echo of the family and culture he’d lost before Voyager. It wasn’t that he felt Voyager no longer needed him, he was still very worried about that and as you said, they needed their chef, and morale officer. But those Talaxians would probably die without his help.

That’s what Starfleet taught Neelix; that in order to save his new friends, he has to make them his family. In order to save his new family, he has to say goodbye to family one who helped heal him. The crew’s reaction wasn’t one of indifference to his departure. It was one of acceptance, and letting Neelix know it was okay to accept this new responsibility to his new family. That despite their love for him, the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few. Or the one.

If I’m understanding you correctly, Neelix is in 2 of the last 3 episodes. He has a starring role in one, a guest appearance in one, and isn’t in the finale. That seems pretty “included” to me up til the very end. If Neelix had been included in the finale I can’t see how it would have been much more than another cameo, perhaps waving goodbye to the ship over subspace as it dove into the transwarp conduit.

Also, I like your memes; I see your content a lot. Thanks for contributing so much.

I hadn’t considered that but you’re right, there are some powers that just don’t work if the good guys have them.

The thing that confuses me about this wonderful concept is how did the Tamarians ever get to the point of building wooden ships if they only spoke in meme and metaphor? How could they have created a culture that speaks only in references if their references couldn’t happen without culture existing to make note of the referenced events?