u/Hypnotician

That line comes from VOY s01 "Jetrel."

JANEWAY: Does Neelix really have metremia, or was that just a pretext for getting us to come to Rinax?
JETREL: It was just a pretext, Captain. You do not have metremia, Neelix. You are not going to die.

I let out a "damn" right there.

I know that this was Voyager really punching hard, a sort of "What if a survivor of Hiroshima got to meet Oppenheimer?" story that came out of nowhere, and no warning.

And it's also the one episode of VOY season 01 I never miss, because it's so different to all the rest of the episodes of this season. Or, for that matter, the rest of the series.

But still, to hear the words that he wasn't going to be written out, and they were going to be stuck with a living, breathing Neelix for practically the entire series ...

*curses in Tuvok*

I noticed something between s01 and the rest of TNG. I think s01 "Conspiracy" was the turning point.

At the start of "Conspiracy," the computer simply needed voice print identification, to open the Code 47 communique. Picard's response was delightfully non-secure: "Picard, Jean-Luc, Captain, USS Enterprise."

But in s02 on, everybody began using identifiers with characters, numbers: basically, verbal passwords. "Alpha Charlie Alpha Bravo," "Pi Alpha Bravo," stuff like that.

I think this measure came about to defeat the blue gills. "That's their weakness: a lack of memory." - Captain Rixx