This is about the Tricobolt weapon used to destroy the Caretakers array in the pilot. Something that we had never seen before or after even when they had to build a doomsday weapon in the Omega Directive. Note the competency of Voyagers workshop in regards towards the ease with which they create terrible things, but why did they have the tricobolt device on hand? What exactly is a short range tactical vessel if not a "bomber"? What were the particulars of Voyagers “mission” that it needed a grander weapon of mass destruction than was in their regular arsenal of 70 somewhat phonton torpedoes, each thousands of times more powerful than the bomb that devastated Hiroshima, although obviously Hiroshima didn’t have “shields”.
So they wanted to nab Chuckles and/or break his cell?
Even though Mr Vulcan and Seska both made it aboard the Val Jean gaining the mans confidence and spent weeks detailing his life among the Maquis before they took a wrong turn into the Delta Quadrant. Sun Tsu talks about the importance of choosing where a battle takes place and the vitalness of spies before a battle, so it’s only a matter of logic to extrapolate that if these to addends to the intended conflict were removed that you’d would need a disproportion amount of equitable fire power to replace the absence of suitable intelligence and forward planning, which is usually the benefit of showing the colours in a massive Galaxy Class Star Ship rather than a rickety barge the size of a toilet block on the edge of a soccer field.
IE: Would they have sent Voyager off into the fray with the Tricobolt Weapon if Tuvok hadn’t gone missing?
Consider the sieges of Troy, Masada and the Alamo to a lone Barabarian rapping at the gates of Rome laying down the law… But then if it was just one guy charging his elephant at said gates, well that would be a slightly different story for the short game? Then consider the low torpedo compliment of barely over 70 torpedoes. Voyagers first mission was not anticipated to involve a prolonged fire fight if that’s what is considered “loaded for bear” in that day and age, but then remember the ridiculousness of Nemesis that the Enterprise ran out of torpedoes after about 4 minutes of brawling with the Romulans and Shinzon… Although Picard’s Ship might have had an unusual low armory depository because they were being respectful of the diplomatic stresses their mission was prevailing under?
Meanwhile if the Tricobolt Weapon was packed for the original mission parameters and not just the revised adventure once they lost their laid viper turncoat, would that mean that Kathy’s mission was to destroy something about the size or/and toughness of the Caretaker’s Array as one of her key objectives, like perhaps Chakotay’s base of operations in the Bad Lands, be it a space station or a planet (later seen in one of the delightful Eddington episodes of DS9. For the Uniform maybe?), or something equally delightful to shoot at that Kathy’s mission might not have been absolutely bloodless since anywhere big enough to act as a base for the Val Jean would also be a hub for other Maquis cells… So even with Tuvok dropping the shields or masking Voyagers approach from the more alert Maquis on sentinel duty, how many Maquis Raiders and other ships, could Voyager really think it had a chance against with it’s shields going daft from the badlands wonky space disturbances, of subduing peaceably some unsiegeable space fortress and taking prisoners that it didn’t have a quick and effective alternative to exercise the threat entirely and then beat a swift retreat before a question of numbers became no question at all?
So they wanted to nab Chuckles and/or break his cell?
Even though Mr Vulcan and Seska both made it aboard the Val Jean gaining the mans confidence and spent weeks detailing his life among the Maquis before they took a wrong turn into the Delta Quadrant. Sun Tsu talks about the importance of choosing where a battle takes place and the vitalness of spies before a battle, so it’s only a matter of logic to extrapolate that if these to addends to the intended conflict were removed that you’d would need a disproportion amount of equitable fire power to replace the absence of suitable intelligence and forward planning, which is usually the benefit of showing the colours in a massive Galaxy Class Star Ship rather than a rickety barge the size of a toilet block on the edge of a soccer field.
IE: Would they have sent Voyager off into the fray with the Tricobolt Weapon if Tuvok hadn’t gone missing?
Consider the sieges of Troy, Masada and the Alamo to a lone Barabarian rapping at the gates of Rome laying down the law… But then if it was just one guy charging his elephant at said gates, well that would be a slightly different story for the short game? Then consider the low torpedo compliment of barely over 70 torpedoes. Voyagers first mission was not anticipated to involve a prolonged fire fight if that’s what is considered “loaded for bear” in that day and age, but then remember the ridiculousness of Nemesis that the Enterprise ran out of torpedoes after about 4 minutes of brawling with the Romulans and Shinzon… Although Picard’s Ship might have had an unusual low armory depository because they were being respectful of the diplomatic stresses their mission was prevailing under?
Meanwhile if the Tricobolt Weapon was packed for the original mission parameters and not just the revised adventure once they lost their laid viper turncoat, would that mean that Kathy’s mission was to destroy something about the size or/and toughness of the Caretaker’s Array as one of her key objectives, like perhaps Chakotay’s base of operations in the Bad Lands, be it a space station or a planet (later seen in one of the delightful Eddington episodes of DS9. For the Uniform maybe?), or something equally delightful to shoot at that Kathy’s mission might not have been absolutely bloodless since anywhere big enough to act as a base for the Val Jean would also be a hub for other Maquis cells… So even with Tuvok dropping the shields or masking Voyagers approach from the more alert Maquis on sentinel duty, how many Maquis Raiders and other ships, could Voyager really think it had a chance against with it’s shields going daft from the badlands wonky space disturbances, of subduing peaceably some unsiegeable space fortress and taking prisoners that it didn’t have a quick and effective alternative to exercise the threat entirely and then beat a swift retreat before a question of numbers became no question at all?
