Question about the episode Basics.

[Ness]

Do anyone notice when the Kazon hijacked Voyager and was boarding the ship, that Captain Janeway could have easily locked out the main computer via voice command, but she did nothing and told her own crew to simply surrender for safety concerns?

I remember an episode of Star Trek TNG where a few Ferengi boarded the Enterprise and Riker used a voice command to lock out the main computer. I haven't seen the episode in a long time, but I remember that scene.

I feel this tactic could have at least bought Janeway sometime. Seska was made to seem intelligent with her engineering background, but I imagine it would take a while to override those commands.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

The Kazon woulda started killing off crewmembers until she unlocked it probably.

 

[Ness]

That is a good point. I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Timo]

That's what Riker could expect of the Ferengi boarders as well, though.

And Janeway probably could exploit her status as a technology demigod with the Kazon. The enemy always felt intimidated by Federation technology and their own inability to exploit it, and locking the computer would have humiliated them even more. Which in this case might be a good thing, because a humiliated Cardassian or Romulan would simply avenge himself upon Janeway, but a humiliated Kazon is likely to get quickly deposed by one of his rivals!

Furthermore, it would have been in Seska's interests to keep Culluth and pals intimidated, too, as her own status depended on her being Culluth's sole access to Federation wonders; she would have done well to steer the Kazon away from brute force and killing of hostages and towards an "I am the only one with any hope of cracking this computer lockout, so just stand back and do as I tell" approach.

Janeway's decision not to lock the computer probably only tells us that she didn't believe that the buying of time would do her and her crew any good. There would be no reinforcements coming for her, after all, unlike the case back in Alpha where Riker would have won if the Ferengi were forced to spend several days cracking the E-D computer.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Ness]

I think I would have rather set the ship to self destruct than have an enemy take over. I would have called the Kazon's bluff. I have a feeling Culluth would have evacuated his crew if it came down to that. Janeway didn't have a problem doing this when the Vidiains boarded the duplicate Voyager.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Janeway had just tried to kill her own crew.

What does she care if Kullah cowboys up for what she was too incompetent to get around to doing herself?

"Security lockout"

Data did it in brothers, and again in the movie first Contact.

Locking out Enterprises computers is more important since it's database is a wealth of intelligence other species in the AQ to use to screw over the rest of the AQ. The database is more dangerous than the ships torpedoes back home, but here?

Gods look at the Omega directive.

That Computer lockout bollocks is automatic.

And if she really wanted to blow up the ship, all Janeway had to do was target voyager with it's own torpedoes or turn off the navigation shields and just the dust floating by at 2 percent of C would shiv Voyager into swiss Cheese.

In 2372, with her crew falling into a catatonic state induced by a Bothan infiltrator, Captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager initiated a security lockout of bridge controls through a verbal command to the computer, as she entered a turbolift for main engineering on deck 11. (VOY: "Persistence of Vision")
When the USS Voyager was under control of the Kazon in 2373, The Doctor and Lon Suder, the only crew members left on board, sabotaged the ship. After Seska discovered their work, she instructed the computer to disregard all voice commands from Starfleet personnel and put it on security lockout. (VOY: "Basics, Part II")

Ha!