NEELIX

Neelix does not use an assumed name in the Fair Haven holoprogram.

He visits Fair Haven quite often and takes a large part in organising social activities there for the villagers and Voyager crewmembers to share. This is in character for Neelix personally, since he carries out this role normally amongst on board Voyager ever since, in [#6 The Cloud], appointing himself the specific role of 'morale officer'.

In Voyager's messhall, at shortly after midnight, Neelix tells Janeway: "Everyone seems to love Fair Haven. I was thinking we might initiate an open-door protocol on the holodeck and keep the program running 24 hours a day, let people come and go as they please." Janeway readily agrees, saying: "Fair Haven's just become our port in the storm." in view of the fact that Voiyager is about to encounter severe conditions in the form of a class 9 neutronic wavefront and she has decided their best option is "ride it out. We'll generate an inverse warp field and drop anchor. That should protect us from the turbulence (plus anti-radiation innoculations). Let's batten down the hatches". A good number of the Voyager crew apparently take advantage of the open-door policy. Neelix leaves her, saying: "I'm heading down there myself, if you'd like to join me? There's a charming little inn called The Ox & Lamb. The owner offered to share some of his recipes."

Before long, Neelix is acting as chef at The Ox & Lamb. Again, this is in keeping with Neelix's real character, as he appointed himself chef early in 2371, and he has been delighting and horrifying the Voyager crewmembers since then with his various culinary offerings.

In Voyager's messhall, Neelix comes over and interrupts Paris and Kim mischievously trying to make the space sick Tuvok feel worse. Neelix does not realise what has been happening. Not realising Tuvok is feeling queasy, Neelix asks Paris, Kim, Tuvok and Seven: "Mutton, creamed cabbage or blood pudding?" Seven: "Explain." Neelix: "I'm preparing a traditional Irish meal at The Ox & Lamb this afternoon and I cannot decide on a main course." Paris: "Blood pudding. You can't lose." Neelix: "Well, that was my first choice too, but replicating the lamb's intestines," he screws up his face in disgust as he pictures the gory lamb intestines - the others are picturing it too, including Tuvok, "it could be tricky, and every time I try to heat the blood it coagulates in the milk." This last is what prompts Tuvok finally to leave for sickbay.

Neelix visits Janeway again to inform her that he has arranged a rings tournament at Sullivan's Pub, to commence at 1900 that evening, to include entertainment: "The Doctor's going to sing something called 'Danny Boy', and Mossie Donegan's promised to bring his talking pig!" There is normally a rings tournament at Sullivan's every Saturday night, so it is possible that the day in question is a Saturday and that Neelix merely organises the additional entertainment since otherwise that would mean two rings tournaments in one week.

Neelix, in Janeway's quarters on Voyager

But Janeway decides not to attend the tournament: she has just broken off her romantic relationship with Michael Sullivan, although she does not tell Neelix. At the rings tournament, Neelix stands in as bartender because Sullivan is either supposed to be taking part in the tournament and/or he has started to imbibe heavily and is in no fit state to tend the bar or anything else.

Neelix points out the morose and drunk Sullivan to the Doctor, Paris and Kim

Neelix is therefore present when the broken-hearted Sullivan explains the cause of his misery, namely that he thought Katie O'Clare (Janeway) and he were in love but she suddenly left him. The miserable Sullivan starts a brawl by attacking Tom Paris, believing he knows where Katie O'Clare (Janeway) is but is refusing to tell (which is indeed the case). Back on Voyager, in sickbay,Neelix is quick-witted enough to refrain from explanations when Janeway asks how the brawl started, but Kim blurts out enough for her to realise before the Doctor's intervention shuts Kim up.

Janeway: "Arm-wrestling get out of hand, boys?" Neelix: "Not exactly." Kim: "It was Michael Sullivan, Captain. He was-" But the Doctor comes up close behind Janeway and deliberately says a loud, "Ahem!" to interrupt Kim. Kim suddenly remembers the reason for Sullivan's fight and finishes as best he can: "-looking for someone."

Maggie (in the light-coloured blouse) remarks about Neelix

By [Spirit Folk], Neelix is running The Ox & Lamb. His association with Katie O'Clare, Tom Paris etc., makes it inevitable that he should fall under suspicion by the villagers of being one of the spirit folk with evil intentions toward Fair Haven. When the villagers discuss the mysterious and "magical" goings-on, including Maggie O'Halloran being turned into a cow (and back), Maggie says: "Well, what about that Neelix fellow who runs The Ox & Lamb? Well, if he doesn't look like a leprechaun, I don't know who does!"

Neelix is not in Fair Haven, and therefore is safe, when the villagers set upon Paris, Kim and the Doctor, thinking them spirit folk. The villagers' attempts to drive the spirit folk back to the Other World and how Sullivan ends up on Voyager's bridge to learn something of the truth about the starship's crew are described in detail at Holocharacters: Seamus Driscol.

Sullivan

When Sullivan and Janeway address the Fair Haven residents, she informs them the Voyager crew are not spirit folk and do not use magic. She says that if the villagers wish, they will leave Fair Haven and never visit again. Sullivan includes Neelix's cooking when he follows with further words to the villagers: "I for one would like to keep playing rings with Harry and Tom, keep having Neelix's steamed cabbage at The Ox & Lamb, keep taking walks with Katie. Let's not turn our backs on these good people. If we do, we're only punishing ourselves." Echoing Janeway's words to him earlier: "Just because we're from different worlds, doesn't mean we can't care from each other."

The townsfolk agree with Sullivan. They resume their friendships with the starship crew, albeit with the knowledge (that Janeway has allowed them to surmise, rather than tell them they are holograms) that the crew are just time travellers from the future who like to spend time in Fair Haven.

During visits to Fair Haven, Neelix dons garb to blend in with the holoscenario.