Janeway is an OK captain and I think she'd be better if it weren't for the contrived plot points affecting her decisions. The most obvious one is the fact that in the very first episode she could use the Caretaker's array to transport them home but insists on destroying it to prevent its misuse, trapping them in the Delta Quadrant. Obviously it's a vital plot point to set up the premise of the entire series, but it does come across as a sort of stubborn, even thoughtless, idealism by Janeway, especially when you consider how badly they need to get home, how difficult it is, and the sort of effort they're willing to put in to do it. So, the Caretaker needed the array destroyed to stop the Kazon using the technology? Fine, set up a timed detonation (maybe with a shuttle craft, a few photon torpedoes, even their own warp core) to destroy it immediately after they go through it.
-- If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday April 15 2022, @11:17PM
Janeway is an OK captain and I think she'd be better if it weren't for the contrived plot points affecting her decisions. The most obvious one is the fact that in the very first episode she could use the Caretaker's array to transport them home but insists on destroying it to prevent its misuse, trapping them in the Delta Quadrant. Obviously it's a vital plot point to set up the premise of the entire series, but it does come across as a sort of stubborn, even thoughtless, idealism by Janeway, especially when you consider how badly they need to get home, how difficult it is, and the sort of effort they're willing to put in to do it. So, the Caretaker needed the array destroyed to stop the Kazon using the technology? Fine, set up a timed detonation (maybe with a shuttle craft, a few photon torpedoes, even their own warp core) to destroy it immediately after they go through it.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?