#let vulcans have a point sometimes
It actually would have been really nice if Neelix’s character arc across Voyagerhad been one of coming to realise that it’s neither necessary nor healthy to pretend to be happy all of the time. Unfortunately, I can’t help but feel that the writers themselves kind of forgot that it was all an act.
There could have been a brilliant episode where Tuvok of all people gets really confrontational (you know, in that very dispassionate way) asking Neelix why he feels the need to do it and then for once it’s Tuvok showing Neelix that he can just be and not have to put on an act all the time.
…this is brilliant, actually.
So much of the Vulcan character development in various series just amounts to behaving more like humans; I think it would be nice to turn around and say that actually, sometimes they have a point.
