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Something happened and it was no impact on the following episodes?? In Voyager??? From all we know, he might be taking care of the lizard babies.
But seriously: at least after the "big expand" (was it called like this?) there are no talaxians anymore and he's happy to meet his kind again. My head canon is that Neelix always has titles that mean essentially nothing (like cook on a star ship with replicators, moral officer, ...) and he gets these to feel valued and accepted. When he decides to leave, he's like: I have all these important things to do here, I can't leave the crew behind. And Janeway is like: let me give you a new important sounding title.
And not being mentioned in the final is just Voyager being Voyager. And even in universe: the story is packed already. He could be involved in the anniversary but even that doesn't bother me too much. He might be busy.
But that's just my interpretation and I'm not too much into the material. I haven't watched Voyager for years.
Let me start here since this is important: I don't get push notifications and only see your comments much later, in this case 40min. I don't know you downvotes you and I see how you think it's me, but it's not me. I didn't downvote a single comment or post from you and I'm happy to agree to disagree and learn a lot from you. I hope you believe me.
That out of the way, let me go on disagreeing with you in a productive way, hopefully =)
Yes, that's what I meant. It's been years and it's not my native language so sorry for the confusion.
I would also consider myself a Neelix fan but I have a different reading of him: He starts as the sneaky deal maker who tries very hard to give back to the crew because he thinks they will send him away the moment they don't need him anymore. Janeway reacts to this by giving him tasks and purpose even tho star fleet is way advanced. That's why he tries to get a map of the Nekrit Expanse. He was the guy who knew around and now they get into territory that's even new for him. That's when it clicks for him that he's valuable just for existing and doesn't have to justify his presence, still he gets a new meaningless title (ambassador) but he's not afraid of losing everything anymore. That's my interpretation. I totally get yours.
I thought you wanted him to play a role in the final but now that I think about it, you are right, he should have been mentioned at least. Communication to the gamma quadrant is still not straight forward, but some kind of honoring should have happened.
And to the guy who keeps downloading you: stop it. You aren't siting with me by doing that.