Caretaker

[heavylids]

I found a copy of this on vhs at a local thrift store for $1.99 and said to myself, why not? I like Voyager but I was never a huge fan. As far as Star Trek pilot episodes go, "Caretaker" is really not that bad.

After watching this, I was wondering if Kirk, Picard or Sisko would have destroyed the Caretaker array if they were in similar circumstances? I think Picard probably would, but I feel that Kirk and Sisko counted on "gut feelings" more often than Picard. In a sense, their emotions were more influential on their decisions. Opinions? Theories? Let's discuss!

 

[Guy Gardener]

PIcard wouldn't have called the kazon "Uncivilized" and Sisko wouldn't have ran from a couple shuttles manned by thugs 400 years behind what he considers Vogue.

It's just a question of IF the Caretakers Self Destruct sequence still worked, which was accidentally broken when a Kazon shuttle collided with the Array while it was Fighting Voyager and the Val Jean.

Although i filmy believe that Caretakers level of dementia that close to his final breath, it was inevitable that he would cock up just about any plan he put his mind to, even suicide. Banjoman was such a pussy that he didn't want the Array to blow up until after he died of natural causes even as the monkey species are fighting over his toys he doesn't have the gumption to put away properly.

Why wait till the last possible second when there is such a mighty threat tot he ocampa? Caretaker could have blown up the array a week earlier and floated off into a subspace fold to die.

Besides the Prime Directive Violation that pisses me off the most is that if the Kazon were smart enough to get the array, then it should have been theirs and it would have brought about a renaissance to that nomadic feudal culture, but Janeway stole their destiny forcing them to farm dirt for a few more centuries when they could have taken a short cut on the fastlane to high society if they didn't kill themselves trying to reverse engineer the Caretakers technology.

 

[HoneyBLilly]

Definitely the best of the modern Trek premieres.

I think Picard would do what he could to negotiate with the Kazon but I think he might have taken it home.

Sisko and Kirk would have been too busy beating up the Kazon to notice the array

 

[Guy Gardener]

The difference between Kirk and Sisko is that kirk would have mounted Maje Jabins girlfriend half way through the third act.

Janeway ceded the Array to the kazon, she was willing to let them have it if she could use it to go home first. It's not her right to hobble the advancement of developing cultures (Cou-Omega!-ough!) but she pissed them off with her holier than thou attitude, so they said "no" and opened fire.

She didn't want to blow up the array until the Caretaker said that the kazon would take the Ocampa's water. Not kill the ocampa, but removed the trillions of cubic tones of water reservoired under the surface after which they would have died of thirst without for a second realizing that they would have replication technology after seizing the array and no longer have any great need for natural bodies of water any longer.