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• Actors: Roxann Dawson, Tim Russ
• Directors: Roxann Dawson, Tim Russ, Gabrielle Beaumont, Kenneth Biller, Cliff Bole
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000003K9R
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,705 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Original airdate: 5/15/95. Stardate: 48832.1. While providing background history for the character of Neelix, "Jetrel" follows Star Trek tradition with a parable about scientific ethics and moral responsibility. When a Haakonian physician named Jetrel (James Sloyan) contacts Voyager with an urgent request, Neelix (Ethan Phillips) is forced to confront his painful, hidden past: it was Jetrel who, 15 years earlier, had developed the metreon cascade superweapon that killed Neelix's family and 300,000 other Talaxians on their home moon of Rinax. Now Jetrel has pledged to cure surviving Talaxians (including Neelix) of a deadly form of metreon radiation, but Neelix remains bitterly hateful toward his former enemy, who must live with the guilt of their shared tragedy. With too-obvious parallels to the atomic bomb and J. Robert Oppenheimer, there's little room for subtlety in this worthy attempt to explore the moral complexities of scientific progress, and the restrictions of one-hour television demand that overwhelming emotional conflicts be resolved in the course of a few dramatic scenes. Within those parameters, however, "Jetrel" is a substantial episode, boasting excellent performances by Phillips and Sloyan, a reliable Star Trek guest who, including this episode, has played members of four alien species in three different series. --Jeff Shannon

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3.0 out of 5 stars Neelix Episode, July 20, 2000

By	S. Torrance "storra" (Arlington, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This episode is based on Neelix's past. Neelix's home planet was destroyed many years ago, because of a weapon created by Voyager's new alien visitor, Jetrel. Jetrel wants Neelix (most likely last Talaxian alive)to help with his experiment, but Jetrel has ulterior motives and lies to everyone. Neelix finds it nearly impossible to trust Jetrel with anything, even if it means Neelix could die.