Kathryn destroyed Caretaker's Array, not because it would give the Kazon the awesome power to conquer the entire galaxy, to attack and pillage any planet, any ship, no matter how many hundreds of years they might be in advance of the Kazons stolen and running down Trabe tech, in any quadrant with the same nifty intragalactic tractor beam which extracted Voyager from merely 70 thousand light years away, a feat they could repeat over and over again, for loot and evolution, till they're ass deep in Starships that make Voyager look like a rickety barge, but while fetching these baubles, there's nothing stopping them from intentionally murdering the crews of their prey in transit if the slave market isn't all that lucrative at the... But I digress: Because Caretaker warned the pretty lady that the Kazon would take Ocampas water.
As if the new emperors of the Universe, who could mass drive and ransom any world inside the Milky Way form the comfort of dozens of of thousands of Light years away, that they couldn't be collecting tribute and tax from a thousand worlds after being in command of the array for only a few weeks, would be still interested in some puddle stored underground behind a force field they now owned the off switch for?
If you thought Cuba in the 60s with Nuclear weapons was scary, imagine if the Mob got hold of a couple? You'd wonder if the DEA would be so blase about burning down billions of dollars of cocaine crops, if the organized Crime turned Idaho into a more useless good for nothing crater, but smoking.
So Kathyrn went out of her way, broke the prime Directive because she was upset that some one she just met with an unfortunate haircut, who she already saw as a slave being mistreated possibly sexually (there was a vibe.) that she couldn't accept/condone conceptualizing the entire species being treated in like kind to be also sold on the auction block as... Well, no, no one wants Ocampan slaves, the dealy from the mouth of the Caretaker was that the kazon were going to ignore the Ocampa until they all starved to death right? Um? Isn't that what the Prime Directive is all about? ignoring people so that they can learn to stand on their own two feat and be prideful about how they get where they're going? Y'know, the opposite of Iraq?
So Hypothetically stuff "might" have happened to the Ocampa some-when over a 5 year timetable when the "power" runs out, and they'll all die if the Kazon don't Huff and puff and blow their forcefield in, to suck up their reservoir and the Ocampa wink out from hunger and thirst well before that, but Neelix's lot were already literally under the boot of the Haakonian Order, their planet conquered and their civilization scattered across the Quadrant trying to avoid the unpleasant edicts of their alien overmasters?
Surely it was Neelix's people who needed help in the beginning and not Kes's lot?
Voyager would have been welcomed as a liberator as they stormed the Talaxian orbital defenses and demanded that everything that was unjust shouldn't be so any more... And even if this was a messy, Prime Directive shattering, thought for the pilot, it's odd that Neelix never asked no one if they could save his people from the monsters who murdered his sister and kept the rest of his people pacified and cowered by the lightest threat of the Metreon Cascade at any later point in the first season.
Unless Neelix was in denial, or honestly didn't care.
As if the new emperors of the Universe, who could mass drive and ransom any world inside the Milky Way form the comfort of dozens of of thousands of Light years away, that they couldn't be collecting tribute and tax from a thousand worlds after being in command of the array for only a few weeks, would be still interested in some puddle stored underground behind a force field they now owned the off switch for?
If you thought Cuba in the 60s with Nuclear weapons was scary, imagine if the Mob got hold of a couple? You'd wonder if the DEA would be so blase about burning down billions of dollars of cocaine crops, if the organized Crime turned Idaho into a more useless good for nothing crater, but smoking.
So Kathyrn went out of her way, broke the prime Directive because she was upset that some one she just met with an unfortunate haircut, who she already saw as a slave being mistreated possibly sexually (there was a vibe.) that she couldn't accept/condone conceptualizing the entire species being treated in like kind to be also sold on the auction block as... Well, no, no one wants Ocampan slaves, the dealy from the mouth of the Caretaker was that the kazon were going to ignore the Ocampa until they all starved to death right? Um? Isn't that what the Prime Directive is all about? ignoring people so that they can learn to stand on their own two feat and be prideful about how they get where they're going? Y'know, the opposite of Iraq?
So Hypothetically stuff "might" have happened to the Ocampa some-when over a 5 year timetable when the "power" runs out, and they'll all die if the Kazon don't Huff and puff and blow their forcefield in, to suck up their reservoir and the Ocampa wink out from hunger and thirst well before that, but Neelix's lot were already literally under the boot of the Haakonian Order, their planet conquered and their civilization scattered across the Quadrant trying to avoid the unpleasant edicts of their alien overmasters?
Surely it was Neelix's people who needed help in the beginning and not Kes's lot?
Voyager would have been welcomed as a liberator as they stormed the Talaxian orbital defenses and demanded that everything that was unjust shouldn't be so any more... And even if this was a messy, Prime Directive shattering, thought for the pilot, it's odd that Neelix never asked no one if they could save his people from the monsters who murdered his sister and kept the rest of his people pacified and cowered by the lightest threat of the Metreon Cascade at any later point in the first season.
Unless Neelix was in denial, or honestly didn't care.
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