If you haven’t caught on, I hate Neelix even more now than I did when I was a teenager and hate watching his every scene during the show’s original run. Why, then, am I claiming that Voyager wasted a perfect character? Simple: the Neelix of the pilot was basically like Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, a character who merely pretended to be an idiot in order to obscure how wise and cunning he really was.
Think about it: Neelix wasn’t being goofy for the sake of being goofy in “Caretaker”… instead, he acted like a court jester in order to lower the guard of Captain Janeway and the rest of the crew. That way, they wouldn’t notice that he was manipulating them into a secret plan to rescue his underage girlfriend.
Certainly, they had no way of expecting that their quirked-up new friend had a secret weapon that he would use to threaten an alien leader before destroying Starfleet property in order to further his own, secret agenda.
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