Other than Tom Paris being forced to take piloting lessons during a visit to a alien world for breaking some protocol, not much happened for a few months.
As the Doctor now is considered a sapient lifeform and not a piece of technology according to the law, he actually had to sign up with starfleet to retain his position as the ships doctor. He is a Ensign now.
...Which was pretty hilarious when he realized that technically Tom Paris, his assistant...outrank him. Not exactly how things work as the Doctor is also the ships chief medical officer, but was still funny.
I give Neelix a smile "So...excited?" and he quickly nod
"You can bet I am. Seeing my own people for the first time in years!"
We are in the Deltaflyer together with Tom Paris and Tuvok on our way into a asteroid field where Voyager's sensors detected several hundreds of Talaxian lifesigns.
As we enter the asteroid field the shuttle are tossed to the side by a explosion. Tom try his best but he have to take it down for landing on a asteroid before we ram something. The landing was hard and even I was knocked out by the landing.
Once I woke up I was tied up from head to toe, my mechadendrites pinned to my sides and I was in a cell across the hall from Paris and Tuvok. Neelix was nowhere to be seen.
As we try to figure out some way to get loose, the ropes was easy enough to get out of and the cell 'door' was just a force field. Technically I could just activate my own and walk straight through but we couldn't see any controls on the outside of the cells so I was unsure I would be able to deactivate their cell.
I could have had a look around but Tuvok thought we should wait and see...so we did.
A couple of hours later the Talaxians came and let us go. They told us they wanted us gone and then took us to our crashed shuttle. Neelix joined us a couple of hours later when we where starting to get it working.
As we where about to take of we discovered one of the children from the Talaxian colony had snuck onboard. I'm still trying to figure out how that happened as we where on the surface of their asteroid.
Neelix returned him to the colony and at the same time he stopped and fought of a pair of aliens pushing the Talaxians about, wanting them to leave so they could mine the asteroid. Turns out they where the ones that fired the charges that damaged the flyer...and in 3 day they plan to mine the asteroid with similar methods.
No matter if the Talaxians are still there or not.
We returned to Voyager along with a few of the Talaxians, among others a woman i'm pretty sure Neelix is attracted to. Personally, I dont really see it. Head ridges never was my thing....but then again it would explain why he liked that klingon...
Either way the aliens wanting to mine the field refused to come to a compromise. In the end Neelix went back to the colony with the other Talaxians in his own ship.
We figured he had something planned and I didnt remember this episode at all, so we took the Delta Flyer and Serenity into the field when we detected the alien ship entering it as well, almost 20 hours before the deadline.
The Talaxians sole remaining ship along with Neelix freighter where deploying shield projectors on the surface of the asteroid. His ship provided cover while the other launched them at the surface.
I watch through Serenity's sensors as the hostile aline craft start a attack run on the Talaxians. Neelix moves to intercept, managing to drive them of for now but his shields are now down and the aliens are coming around again.
Quickly I signal the flyer before I move to intercept. My phasers lash out, stroking along the shields of the alien ship as Paris bring the flyer in between the Talaxian ship and the aliens while the Talaxian freighter deploy the last shield projector.
The shield go up.
In the end the aliens make a ton of noise but have no choice but to leave. They go no way to bring a shield like that down.
And Neelix decide to stay with the other Talaxians. Every member of the crew stood along the corridor as he walked to the hangarbay, saying farewell to him.
He will be missed...but at the very least we still have com contact to him even after Voyager get out of normal com range via the pathfinder project. He know how to access the signal.
AN// Not much of a update...but its the last one before End Game. That one will be up tomorrow or on new years.