MALE NAMED ABADDON, OF UNNAMED SPECIES

Abaddon, as seen on Voyager's viewscreen Abaddon meets Neelix

Abaddon is a male humanoid and a native of the Delta Quadrant, whom the crew of USS Voyager encounters in early 2376, in [#125 Alice]. By profession or occupation he is a dealer in secondhand spaceships and, basically, junk. He calls his trading station Abaddon's Repository of Lost Treasures. His repository of treasures includes an old spacecraft which Tom Paris buys in order to restore and fly - Paris gives Abaddon three used power cells and his interactive record collection (jukebox). (Paris either replicates another jukebox or subsequent events resulted in Abaddon returning the jukebox, perhaps as a sweetener to ensure that the Voyager crew did not report the bad transaction to Abaddon's potential customers. However, This not mentioned or implied in the episode.) When Abaddon visits Voyager to arrange the initial barter, he meets Neelix and immediately recognises him as a fellow-trader due to Neelix's: "Cheerful demeanour, furtive eyes - it's obvious you're a man of commerce." The comment speaks a lot about Abaddon and what he expects a trader to be judging by his own standards and practices. It is left for the television viewer to draw any similarity or contrast to Neelix.

part of Abaddon's trading station pop-up enlargement secondhand spaceship, in need of repair, as acquired by Tom Paris above two pictures: TOSTW

The ship which Paris acquires from Abaddon, which Paris christens Alice, is a one-person sentient ship, with an advanced optronic weapons array and a neurogenic interface that the ship itself uses to control the pilot's mind whether the pilot is willing or not. When Alice forces Paris to take her toward her home, a particle fountain, the crew of U.S.S. Voyager learn of Alice's true nature thanks to a mistake by Abaddon. This mistake was that Abaddon had traded Neelix what he claimed were "the lost treasures of the Delta Quadrant" but which were actually worthless, or so Abaddon thought. However, in with them he unwittingly gave Neelix a beryllium crystal in exchange for plasma couplings. Abaddon was unaware that the crystal is worth a fleet of ships. Voyager returns to Abaddon's trading station where Janeway apprises Abaddon of his error.

Voyager returns to Abaddon. He refuses to help and aims weapons at Voyager, taking them for disgruntled customers. Neelix shows him the berylium crystal. The offer is made to Abaddon that it would be returned to him in exchange for information about Alice.

Briefing room. Abaddon reveals that the previous owner, an Alconian, claimed the ship (Alice) was haunted. Suddenly he, but no one else, sees Alice who appears as a female of his own kind. He suffers a cerebral haemorrhage. The Doctor treats him in sickbay. Abaddon tells Janeway that Alice wanted to go somewhere but never gave him the co-ordinates. Alice had called Abaddon as useless as the junk that he sells, and had ordered him to find her "a real pilot". Abaddon apologises for not telling the Voyager crew - he says he could not resist her. That is a sentiment which Tom Paris discovers for himself.