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After a series of Kazon assaults
on the U.S.S. Voyager that badly damage the ship, Chakotay urges
Janeway to start thinking more like a Maquis. He suggests
forming an alliance with several factions of the Kazon — an
option the Captain rejects until Tuvok convinces her that such
an arrangement could bring stability to the quadrant.
While Neelix visits a
Kazon-Pommar contact on the planet Sobras to feel the faction
out about the viability of such an alliance, Janeway and
Chakotay meet with Seska and Culluh, the Maje of the
Kazon-Nistrim. Culluh stubbornly refuses to allow a woman to
dictate the terms of an alliance, so Janeway walks out. On
Sobras, Neelix also fares poorly, as he's thrown into a cell
with other non-Kazon prisoners.
There, Neelix meets Mabus, a Trabe leader who assures Neelix
that help is on the way, thanks to a signal he sent to Trabe
vessels in the area. As predicted, Trabe supporters liberate the
prisoners.
In the meantime, the crew sets a course for Sobras to retrieve
Neelix, but en route, they spot an armada of Kazon ships closing
in on their position. Apprehension turns to relief when the crew
realizes these are actually Trabe ships, and Neelix is aboard
one of them. Mabus explains that the Trabe once held the Kazon
as slaves, until the Kazon rose up against them. Since then, the
Trabe have been in exile. Despite the bad blood between Trabe
and Kazon forces, Janeway and Mabus form an alliance, and call
for a conference to unite the warring factions in the quadrant.
Seska persuades Culluh to attend the meeting as his first step
toward destroying the Trabe and seizing Voyager.
Having been tipped off by Neelix's sources that someone may try
to sabotage the conference, Janeway and Tuvok proceed with
caution to the meeting, which brings the First Majes of all the
Kazon sects together. Suddenly, a Trabe ship appears and opens
fire on the gathering. Voyager drives off the Trabe vessel and
Janeway, stunned by the ambush, orders Mabus off her ship. But
the damage has been done. The Kazon are furious and the crew is
more vulnerable than ever. |
