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- Bad Tier -
Ive divided my characters into tiers. This is Bad Tier. These are characters who actively make their shows worse by being in them.

59. Neelix
Ive made a Star Trek character ranking like four or five times now, and the only placement that always remains the same is Neelix. Not even Star Trek Discovery is capable of unseating him from his throne in last place though well get to that later.

The only positive thing Ill say about Neelix is that I think the core concept of the character is interesting: an alien who agrees to support the Federation people and provides a new perspective opposite their own. You know who also did that? Quark. You know whos way higher on this list? Quark.

Neelix is annoying, possessive toward his girlfriend (who, spoilers, is also low on my list), and adds nothing really to the show. It would be one thing if he had some kind of critical skill the ship needs to survive, but his skill is cooking. Hes supposed to be charismatic and make people open up to him, but hes written so horribly that after a while, even the characters start complaining about him. Not enough to boot him off the ship, though. I cant understand who thought this character would be positively received.

His bumbling is responsible for multiple episodes of conflict theres even an episode where he almost destroys the ship by buying diseased cheese. Yet Janeway not only keeps him aboard, she gives him important diplomatic and managerial tasks. Theres an episode where Neelix orders a guy to pick up bones scattered in front of a mysterious cave they havent explored on a planet of hostile primitive aliens, the guy gets killed, and no one blames Neelix for it.

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Started: July 6, 2005