After a whole season of saying this crew is the spirit of Starfleet, leaving their brain damaged enemy in slave mines to suffer is probably as anti-Starfleet as you get. It's not like they left him off at a hospital or something.
Yup, that was extremly anti-starfleet of the kids to do.
And heck, even holo-Janeway didn't make a counter argument for that in her log.
It's either that, or someone was left behind to take care of the Diviner (otherwise, I don't see how he could eat or do anything really - he could literally wither away and die from self-neglect due to his condition).
He should have probably been placed in an isolation room on the Protostar, or the brig.
I'm guessing the "17 years ago" thing from before means the Diviner accidentally jumped too far back in time, and Drednok's attack and subsequent crashing of the Protostar was only a few years ago? The revelation that it's indeed our Chakotay who commanded the Protostar does not clear up the timeline issues at all, and in fact makes them even more confusing.
The way I got it was that FC between SF and Solum still hadn't happened.
The Protostar however was already launched and lost by 2383.
And, since we know the Protostar ended up over 17 years into the past (because the montage of when Gwyn was conceived was 17 years ago, and the Protostar was already searched for years to that point), indicates to me, the Diviner is from the year of around 2433 (50 years after 2383)... possibly a year or so further (depending on when FC with Solum happened).
The Diviner travelled back to just before FC to 2382 or 2383, encountering the Protostar.
Chakotay sends out a distress call as a result of encountering a temporal anomaly (Diviner's trip from the future). Drednok attacks the crew (and Chakotay), interrogates him, meanwhile the Diviner plants his software weapon into the ship. Chaktoay then probably managed to escape, forcing both Drednok and Diviner off the ship and whatever transpired after that triggered another temporal event which pushed the Protostar and the REV-12 over 17 years into the past (from 2383 to 'years' BEFORE 2366). Chakotay hides the Protostar inside Tars Lamora, and the Diviner begins his 'over 17 years long search' for it).
It IS a bit confusing because we still have no idea of when each event took place and how they happened (obviously what I said is pure speculation).
Am I the only one thinking that Solum's first contact with the Federation ends up being a predestination paradox? The Diviner going back in time to stop Federation first contact kicks off the events that end up causing it to happen. He caused what he's trying to prevent.
I hadn't thought about it like that... but its a possibility.
I wonder that if the kids do end up finding themselves at the cusp of SF and Solum initiating FC, will they intervene and try to change history?
That would most definitely wipe out existing events though which would be against the Temporal Prime directive and would in fact be a massive reset button (but I somehow think this show won't go down the reset button route).
