For real, though, I still stand by my claim that she shouldn't have given away that holodeck technology in Killing Game. It was very OOC.
I used to feel the same way, but then it occurred to me that the Hirogen had complete control of the holodecks all the way through the episode and were quite adept at using them. I think she traded the holodeck "unit" for possession of the ship--not a bad trade. Yes, she lived to regret it, but hindsight is always 20/20.
The Hirogen didn't have complete control of the holodecks. they had complete control of Harry Kim, who was collaborating with their regime. They threatened to kill people and he buckled. Janeway would have killed everyone to remove the possibility of being used like a puppet by an asshole but Kim is just a gimp who had a month to push the self destruct button and faltered for every second of it.
There was no hindsight reposisitoning her stance on the issue. In Flesh and Blood, Kathy got moody about the possible wrongness of her decision and then Tuvok talked her out of any guilty compunction, reminding the beautiful matron that first: that she is always right, and second that they had been continuously and constantly trading replicator technology for the barest chatskis with anyone and almost everyone with barely checking references and I paraphrase, with out thinking once "the same replicators we have given to people to create food can also be used to make weapons" that it is impossible to think that this one instance was anything different than any other deal they had achieved justification over, and as universally moral as they had always been taking care of business to sustain their lavish standard of living ...I mean honestly, it's like they didn't have some all encompassing law about sharing technology with other races?
Catretaker was ONLY concerned that the Kazon would take the ocampa's water and that they would all die of thirst. Underpinning that threat, Maje Jabin told Neelix that the Ocampa made shitty slaves. The ocampa's only way off that DEAD world was to sublimate over or assimilate into kazon culture as an equal or an overmaster, because lets face it if Kes comparatively was just some stupid turk teenager (the worst Ocampa is as good as the best human?) sleeping with a trucker conman thief 40 times her age, imagine what an earnest and exceptional Ocampa would have been capable of, if not the entire species acting as one to some devious ends?
If kathy or the Caretaker had just given the kazon replicator technology, then they wouldn't have needed the Ocampa's water... And lets not be a complete *&^% about this since Janeways only reason for not giving them replicator tech in the pilot (Prime directive! Being responsible for changing the balance of power!) was that the technology was integrated into their ship, not that seska wasn't able to purloin a shit load of federation tech with out touching any integrated doohickies.
People don't like being patronized. It pisses them off.
I cheered when Kullah sent her sailing across her own, I mean, HIS bridge.
