Of course, it's an awesome idea.
I mean, to have the crew marooned on a primeval planet and let them face the challenges of survival without any technology.
It's just that in order to get them into that situation, they first have to be conquered, and this happens in pt 1. But to me, this ep seems to portray janeway as, let's put it mildly, somewhat incompetent.
So, we'll risk the 150 lives of the crew -who probably had no say in the matter- to go straight into heavily infested Kazon space just on the chance that traitor Seska might have spoken the truth, and perhaps we might save one, say one, innocent (allbeit unwanted) child.
They pick up a stranded Kazon, but some pieces don't quite add up. However, for lack of anything better to do, they decide to follow the man's directions (to a certain extent).
They notice that they are being attacked repeatedly by supposedly independent kazon factions that shouldn't have the same agenda, at the same spot, causing damage to the secondary command processors, like they are 'slowly pecked to death by ducks'. Could there be a purpose behind it ?
Naaah, let's just continue on our route.
Then, when the battle comes, and that Kazon on voyager blows himself up real good because his blood itself was part of a explosive device (I'll grant the voyager crew that that was hard to see coming ), Janeway almost casually says 'self destruct sequence so-and-so', only to hear from the computer that that's impossible due to damage to the secondary processors.
Her eyes go wide. So, that's what the Kazon nasties were after -- to gain the ship relatively undamaged! Who could have thought!
Luckily, there's still Paris to save the day, in part 2...
Of course, Janeway does an awesome job leading her crew in survival in pt 2. But ultimately one that wouldn't have been needed had she been only a bit cleverer in pt. 1.
When they finally do regain Voyager, it's only at the cost of killing Seska and the baby in the process -- the baby being the reason they were there in the first place.
Is it me or is this just ... stupid ?
Edit: I've just reviewed part of the episode and seen that what I said was not entirely accurate. Janeway does order a reversal of course when they are attacted in the same spot for the at least fifth time. Unfortunately, by then it's far too late and she should have had more foresight...
I mean, to have the crew marooned on a primeval planet and let them face the challenges of survival without any technology.
It's just that in order to get them into that situation, they first have to be conquered, and this happens in pt 1. But to me, this ep seems to portray janeway as, let's put it mildly, somewhat incompetent.
So, we'll risk the 150 lives of the crew -who probably had no say in the matter- to go straight into heavily infested Kazon space just on the chance that traitor Seska might have spoken the truth, and perhaps we might save one, say one, innocent (allbeit unwanted) child.
They pick up a stranded Kazon, but some pieces don't quite add up. However, for lack of anything better to do, they decide to follow the man's directions (to a certain extent).
They notice that they are being attacked repeatedly by supposedly independent kazon factions that shouldn't have the same agenda, at the same spot, causing damage to the secondary command processors, like they are 'slowly pecked to death by ducks'. Could there be a purpose behind it ?
Naaah, let's just continue on our route.
Then, when the battle comes, and that Kazon on voyager blows himself up real good because his blood itself was part of a explosive device (I'll grant the voyager crew that that was hard to see coming ), Janeway almost casually says 'self destruct sequence so-and-so', only to hear from the computer that that's impossible due to damage to the secondary processors.
Her eyes go wide. So, that's what the Kazon nasties were after -- to gain the ship relatively undamaged! Who could have thought!
Luckily, there's still Paris to save the day, in part 2...
Of course, Janeway does an awesome job leading her crew in survival in pt 2. But ultimately one that wouldn't have been needed had she been only a bit cleverer in pt. 1.
When they finally do regain Voyager, it's only at the cost of killing Seska and the baby in the process -- the baby being the reason they were there in the first place.
Is it me or is this just ... stupid ?
Edit: I've just reviewed part of the episode and seen that what I said was not entirely accurate. Janeway does order a reversal of course when they are attacted in the same spot for the at least fifth time. Unfortunately, by then it's far too late and she should have had more foresight...
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