Quick Question: Female Kazon?
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No, we never saw a female Kazon.
Judging by the way Culluh treated Seska, Kazon women are probably not very well thought of...
Judging by the way Culluh treated Seska, Kazon women are probably not very well thought of...
I want to see the story story of that half cardassian baby. I so hope some future Trek incarnation brings him up!
They're like the Dwarves in Lord of the Rings, they don't have females and just spring up out of the ground.
Makes perfect sense, Ocampa = Space Elves, Kazon = Space Dwarves
Makes perfect sense, Ocampa = Space Elves, Kazon = Space Dwarves
The Kazon are more like Orcs, I would have thought. 
One does NOT simply walk into the Array...
Come to think of it, we didn't see any female Hirogen either. Any other all-dude species? Well, all-dude on screen anyway.
^ Even if there were female Kazon in the backgrounds, they never spoke.
Have just been checking with Memory Alpha: There are actually three female Kazon on their List of unnamed Kazon, all from "Caretaker". And they do note that there were just a few female Kazon ever seen.
Am I the only one finds it odd that they never felt the need to introduce a Kazon woman?
Am I the only one finds it odd that they never felt the need to introduce a Kazon woman?
In some of those instances, there might have been females there, just not recognized by us as such.
"A curious creature is the flea. You cannot tell the He from the She. But He can tell, and so can She."
"A curious creature is the flea. You cannot tell the He from the She. But He can tell, and so can She."
And conversely, even if we saw characters played by female actors, we could not be sure they would be female characters. Case in point, the Talosians.
And, apparently, the Kazon as well, since there is nothing particularly feminine about the Kazon played by actresses in "Caretaker".
Timo Saloniemi
And, apparently, the Kazon as well, since there is nothing particularly feminine about the Kazon played by actresses in "Caretaker".
Timo Saloniemi
And, also conversely: TMP's Rhaandarites. They deliberately picked a hairy-chested male extra to play the female Rhaandarite ambassador, signified as female only by an aluminum spot on the forehead to differentiate her from her male companion.
The Kazon seemed to have a Ferengi-like attitude about their women, in that they viewed women as inferior. It makes sense we wouldn't see Kazon woman on screen, because they were not the decision-makers and leader of the Kazon people; the men were. If the Kazon arc had continued, we might have seen women Kazon with speaking roles, but they decided the scrap the Kazon and have Voyager move out of Kazon space.
IMHO, the Kazon never really "worked" that well for me. They tried to differentiate them, but they really wound up just being the poor man's Klingons (and the similiar physical appearance didn't help). The Klingons didn't really view their females as being equal either, although Klingon females were better regarded/treated then Ferengi or Kazon ones.
IMHO, the Kazon never really "worked" that well for me. They tried to differentiate them, but they really wound up just being the poor man's Klingons (and the similiar physical appearance didn't help). The Klingons didn't really view their females as being equal either, although Klingon females were better regarded/treated then Ferengi or Kazon ones.
The Kazon were not the best species Voyager ever had, but I think they had uniqueness in being more of a space pirate race than a superpower. It was what they did with them in that context that made them interesting to me.
I read on Memory Alpha that the Kazon were supposed to be modeled on the street gangs of L.A., FWIW.
The idea that they lived off the husk of the Trabe empire was cool enough - and the fact that the idea was slowly developed from the first small mention in "Initiations" to the conclusion in "Alliances" was a rare bit of patient storytelling in modern Trek. Intertwining two Trek cultures that way is pretty rare, and the Kazon/Trabe bit comes as a good second after the Cardassian/Bajoran thing...
(Although the Cardassians and Bajorans apparently were mere aliens-of-the-week at first, while the Kazon were a major adversary from the get-go, I think.)
Timo Saloniemi
(Although the Cardassians and Bajorans apparently were mere aliens-of-the-week at first, while the Kazon were a major adversary from the get-go, I think.)
Timo Saloniemi
