Star Trek brengt ons al sinds de jaren zestig de meest prachtige en soms vreemde avonturen. Maar ook zijn er in al die tijd een hoop nutteloze karakters voorbij gekomen, waar van je soms denkt wtf doen die in de serie. Daarom heeft de website Topless Robot nu deze lijst gemaakt waar ook Neellix opstaat. Deze is best irritant soms, maar de aflevering waar Tuvoc en Neelix samen smelten is voor mij één van de beste uit de hele Voyager serie.

6) Neelix

It's pretty much a Paramount mandate that at least one main character per Star Trek series has to play the role of an outsider who voices their thoughts on the human condition. Thus, the original series gave us Spock, Star Trek: The Next Generation had Data, Deep Space Nine featured Odo and Voyager offered up Neelix. Originally joining up with the ship's crew to help guide them through the Delta Quadrant, he began working as a cook and offering up advice/tiresome comic relief. But all of the leola root jokes in the universe couldn't change the fact that the Talaxian was a thorn in the sides of viewers who kept wondering when the hell Seven of Nine would saunter on screen again. With the Doctor also handling the specifics of someone on the outskirts of humanity looking in, the Neelix character was largely superfluous. Would the series have been dramatically impacted if he left the show when Kes did? I'll leave you to ponder that in the comments. Meanwhile, it should be noted that like most of his fellow cast members on Voyager, Ethan Phillips is a gifted actor who made the best of the uneven material he had to work with.