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I feel like the more ridiculous a neelix plotline, the better. Cheese premise all the way. Could have gone further with it tho. Maybe the cheese bacteria become horrendously infectious and produce a disgusting disease that incapacitates the crew. Bring that shit into DS9 Ferengi or TNG Q episodes of goof level wackery. I feel like his character was intended to fill a similar niche but they never made him into the chaos goblin he should have been.

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cramola@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Neelix is immune to the cheese infection of course because he’s been eating his own experiments for a while and we get a Neelix-Doctor teamup to save people from the disease. But not before most of the crew turns into an infection vomiting mess of cheese zombies. Neelix gets to show expertise and care in the recovery of his crewmates, as well as regret/pathos for wielding his dangerous culinary powers with abandon

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atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s because he was actually intended to be the breakout character. (page 22)

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- kieron115@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I didn’t know that Ethan Phillips did that performance while being effectively blind and deaf. Impressive!
  
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kieron115@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Now I’m imagining if they had somehow managed to cast Robin Williams (RIP) as Neelix!

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DreamAccountant@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Voyager cultivates the bio-neural cheese, making the smartest and most delicious cheese in the Delta Quadrant.

Cheese sales used for diplomacy, barter, and bribes. All Delta Quadrant species like this cheese.

Janeway, recognizing the power of the cheese to get home quickly, looks at a nutrient rich nebula in wonder saying “There’s cheese in that nebula!”

Bio-neural cheese easily defeats borg nanos in one-on-one nano deathmatches. Whole borg cubes left disconnected and smelling of cheese.

Neelix makes a fondue that becomes sentient for a few days. Janeway establishes diplomatic relations with the cheese.

Voyager gets home in 3 years, with borg defeated. Multiple successful diplomatic first contacts, and trade deals. Dramatic increase in all cheese related technology, and basic civil cheese rights across the Federation.

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