Kasidy Yates did nothing illegal

[Paul Weaver]

We saw several characters not wearing a uniform - Kes, Neelix, Naiomi, Icheb.

Janeway gave them the opportunity to contribute to the ship, but if they were going to be doing things like changing gel packs, they had to do it in the starfleet way. That's reasonable.

Sadly Voyager didn't do that many recurring guest stars, they could have had a couple of ex-Marquis in civilian clothes working in hydroponics or the mess hall, or sickbay. It was ridiculous after Kes left that the only backup was Paris, their chief pilot.

For all we know though there could have been half a dozen ex-Marquis who didn't want to do any work, and who just spent the entire voyage in their quarters smoking weed like Raffi. We only know that there were issues if they tried to do work in the "non-starfleet" way.

However given nobody wanted to stay on when they encountered the 37s, so clearly despite grumbling and expectations about people like Jarvin and Baxter, they were happy enough to fit into the Starfleet way.

 

[DonIago]

However given nobody wanted to stay on when they encountered the 37s, so clearly despite grumbling and expectations about people like Jarvin and Baxter, they were happy enough to fit into the Starfleet way.

I still don't think that ending was very realistic. Never mind that some people probably would have lived longer if they'd disembarked at that point.

 

[Farscape One]

I still don't think that ending was very realistic. Never mind that some people probably would have lived longer if they'd disembarked at that point.

The cargo bay scene at the end of "THE 37's" was COMPLETELY unrealistic. I get what the writers were going for and trying to make us feel, but I think it kind of backfired a bit. It cemented even further that the series was not going to take any real chances.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

I still don't think that ending was very realistic. Never mind that some people probably would have lived longer if they'd disembarked at that point.

Realistic or not, we should have had a better visualization of what might drive Maquis to stick with the ship. How many of them were really attached to home? How many feared eventually imprisonment?

I would note that Children of Time did a better job exploring this same question.

 

[DonIago]

OTOH, that Harry gets home in "Non Sequitur" and chooses to risk it all to return to a ship lost in the DQ does lend his later statement that it's all about the journey some substantial credibility.

 

[Farscape One]

OTOH, that Harry gets home in "Non Sequitur" and chooses to risk it all to return to a ship lost in the DQ does lend his later statement that it's all about the journey some substantial credibility.

I always looked at that as more a form of 'survivor guilt', which is further shown in "TIMELESS".

(Honestly, "TIMELESS" retroactively made "NON SEQUITUR" a better episode because of this. To me, anyway.)

 

[Bad Thoughts]

In both cases, the shows' respective premises were baked into the series to give the writers workarounds for Roddenberry's "no conflict" rule amongst the Starfleet characters. Sure, Gene, we'll make half of the characters on each show non-Starfleet. But, as we've all said, in Voyager's case, they ignored that almost at the jump. They put the Maquis characters into Starfleet uniforms and almost never looked back.

OTOH, that Harry gets home in "Non Sequitur" and chooses to risk it all to return to a ship lost in the DQ does lend his later statement that it's all about the journey some substantial credibility.

I would argue that returning to Voyager was the most Harry Kim thing Harry Kim could do. He was always, it would seem, concern with propriety and earning respect, inwardly and outwardly.

 

[DonIago]

Must be why he went nutso when he got his second pip, only to discover how many of him didn't get the second pip.