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Re: VOY S7: Homestead

One thing I really didn't like though is that this episode seemed a bit cowardly, trying to pair Neelix off with one of his "own kind", basically saying that he could never make it with an alien, and that it's best that he finds love with his own species.

I know some will say "but B'Elanna is Klingon, and she married Tom" - but in that case she was half human already, hated her Klingon side, and Klingons are practically human; they've been around so long. Lets review some others...

Neelix/Kes - didn't work out
Janeway/Jaffen - didn't work out
Seven/Doctor - didn't work out
Doctor/Danara - didn't work out
Chakotay/Kellin - didn't work out
Harry/Derran - didn't work out (which I didn't get, she literally was able to leave and would have a much better time exploring on voyager, and was bonded with Harry, so at the end she goes wondering in a space pod?! What the heck was that about?!)
Chakotay/Seska - didn't work out
Seven/Axum - didn't work out
Tom/Kes - didn't work out (it did in the alternate timeline, but that was a 'what if' timeline that didn't actually happen)
Harry/Linnis - didn't work out (same alternate timeline)
Tuvok/Noss - didn't work out (okay, he was married, but even better for the producers as it was doomed from the beginning)
Tuvok/Marayna - didn't work out (same reason as above)

What did work out?

B'Elanna/Tom - human/half-human discussed above
Seven/Chakotay - human/human
Tuvok/T'Pel - vulcan/vulcan
Neelix/Dexa - Talaxian/Talaxian
Janeway/Chakotay - human/human (they didn't end up together, but they almost did in Resolutions)
Samantha/Greskrendtregk - human/K'tarian - the only real interracial, but he was never seen, so essentially out of sight, out of mind.

Sure, I know, random characters couldn't become permanent, but Neelix was right there - why couldn't he in all that time fall for someone already on Voyager (statically he should have considering his personality)? Neelix/Seven would have been shocking, but they were both there, and would probably have been pretty interesting - people mad because she chose him, his style versus hers, etc)! Yeah, Naomi was the product of Human/Ktarian, but he wasn't around, and other than the facial things, Naomi was basically human.

Maybe I'm reading more in to it, but Hollywood has on countless occasions avoided interracial pairings so that they could sell their shows to conservative red states without controversy. At the very least they could have made the colony some other race, maybe even Haakonian which would have been an interesting path! But no, lets keep the offensive interracial stuff to a minimum...