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Star Trek: Voyager: Homestead (2001)
A necessary episode
Voyager could not return to the Alpha Quadrant with a native Delta Quadrant resident on board. The whole point of the series is that Voyager's crew is trying to get home to their own people. Once it was determined that Voyager was not going to be renewed for another season, the producers decided to wrap up the loose ends: Tom and Ba'llana's baby, the Doctor's status, Seven's humanity, Harry's insistence to get home, and Neelix's future. This was a chance for the crew and for the audience to say good-bye to Neelix within the plot of an episode that would leave him with his people, yet still accessible to Voyager (as a permanent ambassador to the D quad). The final goodbye scene where Neelix leaves the turbolift and walks through the corridors lined with the Voyager crew is one of the most poignant in the series.