PATRON TIER LIST - VOY S2E20 - Investigations

Too much Neelix not enough Paris heel turn suspense. B for but I applaud the ambition.

Well... an attempt was made anyway. Still, some nice individual character moments (even if they were partially part of the work), and I'll always be amused anytime Chuckles is made to look like a doofus being kept out of the loop.

I can't help it... I hate Neelix... soooo much. Irritating from start to finish of each scene he was in. This doesn't make me less of a fan of the episode overall, just his character. As far as mystery episodes go, we have others like Necessary Evil and A man alone in DS9 or from tng A Matter of Perspectives or Suspicions that we can compare this to. I don't think it was character based as to why people don't like this one, these other episodes were just better episodes.

I love the multi-episode payoff we get here. Voyager actually does a lot more ongoing side plots than most other Trek, which is one of the things I really like about it.

This is an example of an episode whose importance exceeds its quality. It wraps up an arc.

This gets a one letter grade reduction because Neelix is on the thumbnail