Janeway and Paris went to a near by planet that Voyager found at conventional speeds with their puny warp drive after a few days. Considering that Chakotay couldn't track the shuttle at transwarp, isn't it convenient that they could ping the shuttle's transponder on long range scans becuase there is no other way that they could have found that ship other than with blind luck.
Does that mean that Tom was getting stupider as the process towards Salamander continued, or did he want Voyager to find him and his mate after Janeway had given birth?
Slave wages in a free society can equate to the equivilency of a slave race.
Do you feel happy that a man will almost always get paid more for the same work for any job you might get? It might be getting better, but you can still smell where it used to be worse.
Social boundaries, class structures and glass ceilings.
Phlox got on his moral high horse because he believed that the sub species here was proably treated no better than than African Ameicans were in the 1930s. Free but still lower class. They only had access to low paying jobs, that a white person wouldn't do, and if a white person did do, they would have been paid double.
The subordinate Aliens would continue to be dominated and opressed becuase they were colossally outnumbered, and treated like the unclean in Aisan culture. Phlox couldn't see an out for them other than the complete destruction of the species holding their leashes, giving them lebensraum.
Although, if they were all super geniuses like Phlox suggested, once they figured out how dumb the master race oppressing them was, it wouldn't be that difficult to rise up and take over thier overloard masters? Not even through violence, but if even the least of them was the social equivilent of a 20th century multimillionaire, it's pretty easy to see that they would be the %1 running things even if the abusive thug race prancing about like they owned the planet didn't realise the change in regime had left them quite castrated.
