Re: Is there anyone who'd love to see Kathryn as she was before 'Nemes
Because Neelix told them so, Voyagers shuttle was attacked as a warning since the crew was not eaten and the ship was not scuttled and there was a tachyon detection grid marking the entire width and breadth of of their empire.
Just to remind you...
NEELIX: If these people are who I think they are, I can tell you this is very bad news. I've never actually encountered them but from what I've heard I'm glad I didn't. Most ships that enter their space are never heard from again. Some have returned with everyone on board dead. They're a complete mystery. No one knows their name, how many of them there are, what the culture is like. Just that they really don't want people violating their territory.
KIM: If this is any indication of their borders, it's a huge area of space, hundreds of sectors. If we were to go around it it would take months.
CHAKOTAY: I'd say over fifteen months even if we could sustain maximum warp, which we can't.
JANEWAY: I'm not going to tell this crew we're adding another fifteen months to this journey. We'll have to find another option.
TUVOK: If we are not to go around their space the only available option is to go through it.
JANEWAY: Precisely.
KIM: Tom and B'Elanna hit a sensor net as they crossed the border. We have to figure we'll run into it when we try to cross. But there are ways around sensor nets.
CHAKOTAY: They can't possibly have enough ships to patrol a border this size. We could probably find an unguarded section.
TUVOK: Would it affect your decision if I pointed out that encroaching on the territory of an alien species is prohibited by starfleet regulations?
JANEWAY: No, it wouldn't.
TUVOK: Captain, you have managed to surprise me.
JANEWAY: We're a long way from starfleet, Lieutenant. I'm not about to waste 15 months because we've run into a bunch of bullies.
Hmm?
So the Romulan Neutral Zone? The thousands of outposts stocked to the brim with torpedoes and phaser batteries? Starfleet is bullying the Romulans? Customs? Health and saftey inspections? Bullying! When Rom mined the bajoran wormwhole he was just bullying the the 10 thousand starships which wanted to come through and annihilate world after world?
There was a choice.
Go around.
That's a very easy way not to get killed or be forced to kill to protect yourself? Just comply with the wishes of the local jurisdiction with the powerful armada who's definition of "stun" still half murders people.
How come real Janeway can destroy hundreds of ships here to save a few months travel, but Quicksilver Janeway wouldn't phaser the frakk out of just three orbital defence ships goosesitting above a Demon Class planet when the lives of her entire crew was on the line?
15 months, maybe 2 years added to the 69 years left to their journey is inconsequential, and as stated many times, it it took them 70 years to get home because they couldn't make allies, find technology or wormholes, they just plain suck. Making friends is a good way to get help, and you're not going to get help or friendship from a people who you murder en mass because you unilaterally declare that their law, borders and choices are bullshit.`
It's a complete lack of respect which should have earnt kathy a bloody nose, but might is right and she was able to destroy anyone with a morally superior argument against her plan of action.
Tuvok needed to grow a pair. he keeps telling she's wrong and then, with the exception of selling stories for technology, and then just lets her carry on through with her crusades. I suppose though he turned her suicide kick in the Omega Directive into a mass-suicide kick, getting the girl to change her mind just a fraction.
Though, it's possibly he just didn't want the terrorist in charge?
