#star trek kazon

[stvoy-kazon-stan]

[isagrimorie]

Star Trek Voyager, 3x26 - Basics, part 1

Captain Kathryn Janeway as a Brilliant Tactician, part 1, 2, 3 (version 1) (version 2)

This battle is often overlooked but I think this is also an amazing showcase for Janeway and the Voyager crew.

Voyager was up against 4 large Kazon (formerly Trabé ships). Significantly larger than Voyager many times over. Janeway's other talent is bringing together all the suggestions her crew threw together and executing it.

In this instance, using deflector and holo-technology to create ships to draw fire from Voyager.

Plus Janeway's job is to time their attacks precisely. One of the first example of Janeway having nerves of steel. She had to be patient and not let the distance or number of her enemies spooke her.

Voyager was winning the battle against the big Kazon-Nistrim ships-- until the moment their Kazon prisoner blew himself up, sabotaging Voyager.

(Honestly, I wish they repeated this tactic in other battles because it worked really well).

This is just a taste of the war leader Janeway becomes.

[stvoy-kazon-stan]

Anthony De Longis is so freaking awesome.

So I recently found out that the guy who plays Maje Culluh on Star Trek Voyager, aside from being an actor, is a master swordsman, stunt coordinator, fight choreographer, martial artist, and an absolute BOSS at the bullwhip (he taught Michelle Pfeiffer how to use it in her role as Catwoman, and Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones 4), and went toe-to-toe with Jet Li in Fearless. AND he can do all those stunts…on horseback.  

(De Longis’s fight is at the 1:12 mark.)

Also? He was one of Garrett Wang’s (Harry Kim) teachers at UCLA. And he starred in the Masters of the Universe film alongside Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris; he held him at knifepoint in one scene). From what I could find on him on YouTube, he seems like an awesome guy, super nice, well-spoken, and a great teacher.

This guy is SO GOD DAMN COOL. Culluh deserved way better than what we got with him. Knife fight with other Kazon Majes when? Never? Not even a beatdown against Chakotay or Tuvok, or even attempting fighting B’Elanna with a bat’leth? We have been robbed.

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[ilovefredjones]

i know he didn’t bc he definitely would’ve said something but it would’ve be so funny if dal was hearing zero and maj’el’s telepathic flirting the whole time

[ryukisgod]

[valhahazred]

Some slightly more alien Delta Quadrant folks for Voyager to bump into.

[stvoy-kazon-stan]

I argee there are some things you can defer from lines and on screen appearance but I do wish there was more

My personal thoughts on what caused the divide between them was probably the lack resources Neelix in the Pilot of VOY says "the Kazon Sects control this part of the quadrant some have food some have ore some have water they all trade and kill each other for it" that and pre existing grudges between Sects because the Trabe pitted them against each other until they worked together and overthrow the Trabe

Also maybe the differences in Culture from the Ogla showing disdain for technology in the episode with the children coming of age while the Nistrim are almost obsessed with it another thing from that same episode Ogla don't wear uniforms because it reminds them of the Trabe but the Pommar sect all wear matching uniforms so it's clear they all have innate cultural differences

And I'd imagine they home world would be dry and sunny because they seem to have sun blotches and discoloration on their skin from the sun but maybe that's because they come from a different climate and their bodies don't react well to dry and sunny climates but I personally think a volcanic planet would be cool but that's a opinion

I wish we got to learn more about the Kazon as a culture. They have really interesting parallels with Federation races, but are also plenty different. I wanna know more about the sects and what caused the divide between all of them. The episode with the children coming of age felt like the most intimately we were ever gonna get to know them, but it could've gone a lot deeper! What's the Kazon homeworld like???

[baylardian-1]

Meeting little granbaby hehehe. :3

Collabed with @maliciousalice she like yassified my base sketch and then I lined and colored. :)

[convenient-plot-device]

*Minor here means a combination of "not well-known" and "not focused on by the show" - as well as "unpopular" because I didn't want to have one poll and skew the votes by having Klingons next to the Suliban.

(I am defining "enemy species" here as a species that frequently plays/played the role of villain, specifically within the context of behaving aggressively toward the main characters/the Federation as a unit. This is why the Orions are not on here; they don't go to war with the Federation or anything, it's just individual members of the species being jerks/doing various shady dealings for the Syndicate. Even if a species later becomes allied with the Federation, they are still included here (hence the Xindi).)

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Tarok

Class: M

Quadrant: Delta

Type: moon

Location: orbit of unnamed gas giant around a K-class star

Inhabitants: none

Claimed by: Kazon-Ogla

Appearance: VOY "Initiations" (1995)

Fun fact: used as a training camp for initiates by the Kazon-Ogla, who would dump them on the moon to test their fighting and survival skills.

Another fun fact: another world filmed at Vasquez Rocks!

[stvoy-kazon-stan]

[isagrimorie]

Since I'm doing the rounds of the early seasons of Voyager, I wish some erstwhile Kazon stumble into Voyager again and earn the ire of Later Season!Janeway.

Her general IDGAF attitude and faster sable rattling + genuine threat to blow a nasty guy out of the water is always fun and even more fun when it's against a Kazon.

I'd love to see a Kazon try their nonsense on later seasons Janeway.

Or somehow, they stumble into the Year Of Hell!Janeway.

Seriously, that would be a suicide run for a Kazon.

I seldom agree with fan-received wisdom, but it's on the money when it comes to Kazon. Especially since there are some Borg enhancements to Voyager now. And Seven has the Borg impatience for Kazon.

They commit the worst sin a villain can commit, they're boring.

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confession #130

"Given that Kazons and Pakleds have reputations for not being the most intelligent species in the quadrants, I wonder what would happen if a Kazon and a Pakled had a kid together or got the Tuvix treatment."

[spockvarietyhour]

If you say so!

[delta-queerdrant]

the best allies we could have (Alliances, s2 e14)

If Voyager’s Kazon arc has a peak, it’s “Alliances.” Here it is, the dramatic turning point in our understanding of Delta Quadrant politics! This episode has a kernel of something almost compelling, but like much of season two, it’s sadly undercut by storytelling failures.

We cold-open on a firefight with the Kazon. Star Trek battle scenes are so silly; why do the consoles explode? I guess the claustrophobic mayhem is a holdover from the nuclear submarine aesthetics of TOS. I will never not be amused by how Janeway’s hair explodes every time they’re in a fight. Are there no bobby pins in space?

A crewman dies in the battle, and we learn that two more have died in previous Kazon encounters, our first casualties since Durst got de-faced (lol) by the Vidiians. The tension is real - redshirt deaths hit differently when a small crew has trauma-bonded in space.

A faction of the crew wants to buy off the pursuing Kazon with Federation technology, but Janeway won’t turn her back on the Prime Directive. The Starfleet/Maquis divide, usually an afterthought, feels momentarily real. We’re treated to a three-way debate between Janeway’s lawful good authoritarianism, Chakotay’s collaborative ethos, and Tuvok’s detached realpolitik. “This isn’t a democracy, Chakotay, I can’t run this ship by consensus,” Janeway says, briefly inviting a utopian, communitarian vision of a Voyager actually run by consensus. But even she’s swayed by Tuvok’s (frankly, bullshit) suggestion that a temporary alliance with the Kazon has the potential to make the Delta Quadrant more stable as long as Voyager doesn’t actually hand over technology.

This is arguably a weak leadership moment for Janeway, who can’t adapt to the demands of her environment or crew, but maybe it’s okay to be a rules-y Taurus if you surround yourself with people who correct your worst impulses.

Janeway reaches out to Seska to try to broker a deal, which is fun because it’s genuinely unexpected and makes Chakotay so squirmy. Meanwhile Neelix makes contact with a Kazon acquaintance. They meet up in what I believe is the first “hive of scum and villainy” of the series. You know these people are up to no good because there are alien bikini girls!

Here Neelix encounters the Trabe, another local alien species who have their own story to tell. The episode both becomes interesting and loses the plot completely.

The Trabe tell Voyager that “over thirty years ago,” they enslaved the Kazon in an apartheid society. When the Kazon rose up, the Trabe lost everything. Now the Trabe are a landless people still persecuted by those they oppressed, even though decades have passed and many of the Trabe were children when the Kazon overthrew them.

Janeway is delighted - instead of allying with the Kazon, they can ally with the friendly Trabe! Chakotay agrees - the Trabe, after all, have openly acknowledged the harm their people caused.

Meanwhile, me: OMG NOOOO THEY FOUND WHITE PEOPLE IN SPACE

Previously I wrote about the Kazon as a parable for midcentury US race relations. Before I rewatched “Alliances,” I genuinely thought they were just clearance-rack racialized space baddies, but here the parallels to white Boomer experiences of the 1960s uprisings are unmistakable. It’s a resonant scene, but watching our command team fall over each other to befriend their new pals is… stressful.

The Trabe build on Janeway's proposal: together they’ll bring the Kazon together and negotiate for peace. But when the meeting begins, the viewer can’t help but notice that the Kazon seem like the most reasonable people in the room. They don’t trust the Trabe or Janeway, and they have a much better read on the power dynamics at play than Janeway does. Because the meeting is a fucking trap.

This episode is such a bummer. Maybe I'm being too charitable, but it feels like a genuine attempt at anti-white supremacist storytelling that missed the mark. Janeway, our audience surrogate, is presented with a complex political situation and immediately latches onto the group she identifies with: white-presenting people who have claimed the moral high ground after centuries as oppressors. Then the rug is pulled out from under her. White liberalism as a facade for violence is a very mid-nineties dynamic.

The full impact of this plot twist relies on the viewer sharing Janeway’s white myopia. If you don’t implicitly trust the Trabe (or the writers), you spend the whole episode screaming at the television. Why are our protagonists so clueless?

“I hope there's a lesson for all of us in this,” Janeway says in the final scene. “Although some of the species we've encountered here have been peaceful, others seem governed only by their own self-interests.” It’s not a good look when our hero has traveled 70,000 light years to learn that… politics are a thing? And why didn’t her command team didn’t save her from herself? Are you telling me that Chakotay, the Indigenous anti-authoritarian militant, is this politically naive?

If “Alliances” is at times a smart portrait of how an oppressor mindset operates, it’s undermined by an offensive caricature of resistance. Violent resistance absolutely can be fueled by an ideology of separatism and racial hatred, but the Kazon aren’t a resistance movement; they’ve won. Yet the Kazon resemble white peoples' worst fears of postcolonial "failed states." It feels like the writers genuinely believe that the political and social problems of formerly dispossessed people are of their own making, not recognizing the ways that white supremacy and economic imperialism still actively shape the lives of formerly colonized peoples. The Kazon only make sense in a universe where the Trabe are still economically and politically exploiting them, and that's not the universe we're shown.

We needed an episode with this shape, one that sets up the hard political choices of later seasons, and I can accept that requires our characters to exercise truly poor judgment. But this attempt at gritty politics doesn’t feel grounded in anything real, and the result feels disappointingly thin.

2/5 triangular tables.

[youngpettyqueen]

I love that Janeway is 100% committed to her stance that she will blow this goddamn ship up before she lets anybody take it