I’m of two minds on Chakotay. On the negative side, I do think they used the NA trope in a semi-stereotypical way and they could have done a lot better - after what @Ignatius said, I’m more understanding since it sounds like they tried and just didn’t do a great job vetting their consultant. On the positive side, it was good to see a NA character presented in a positive light.
In a broader sense, I do like that Voyager at least tried to present a Federation that wasn’t quite so Western-centric. You guys know I’m in favor of evidence driven empirical medicine, but the fact that the Doctor was programmed with medical knowledge of other Earth cultures as well as alien ones was a small but important touch I admired.
