It only jumped to number three in the last few years or so. But VOY used to be number four for a looooong time. It was treated too episodically and characters like Neelix suffered for it because the character did have more dramatic episodes and had a much deeper background they only explored rarely.ДS9, TNG and VOY have become my favorite three shows in that order. I canвЂ™t recall a single episode it was ever brought up in any way and it was never used to develop the character. I never remembered the character was actually a soldier who fought in a war for instance which gravely affected him because it ended up as a genocide among his people (Jetrel).Д«ut again the issue with Voyager is that something like that was brought up way back in season 1 and then just dropped again. Until I watched them this year I literally didnвЂ™t remember any of them and it was nice to give Neelix more layers than just the happy-go-lucky cook and morale officer. These are from the first four seasons (which I just finished). They actually gave him quite a few weighty episodes which makes me see Neelix in a different light now. And because of that, I am watching episodes I literally could not remember because I just kept skipping over them and apparently that seems to include a lot of the Neelix episodes because I am now watching a lot of them I just donвЂ™t remember.ДЄnd one of the things IвЂ™m learning is that Neelix was not always just treated like a quirky comedic side character like Quark usually was.

One of the reasons I wanted to do a grand rewatch of the franchise was to see how different my views of the shows would be when I watched them all as a whole again and not just choose to watch my favorite episodes over and over.

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