A Talaxian working on a convoy's communications who is an old friend of Neelix and lets slip that someone from Voyager is leaving to join them.
Laxeth handles communications for a Talaxian convoy. He appears in the second-season Voyager episode Investigations.
Neelix has started a daily news programme for the crew and calls his old acquaintance in the hope of a story. Laxeth mentions that a member of Voyager's crew has arranged to sign on with the convoy, which Neelix soon finds out means Tom Paris.
Paris's departure is really a cover devised with Janeway and Tuvok so that he can be taken by the Kazon and learn who is feeding them information. Laxeth knows nothing of this. Neelix's continued digging, set off by the conversation, helps to unmask Michael Jonas.