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Huh, this is canon from a disgruntled crew member betraying them?

I can't see why they'd to it to the Kazon of all people, the federation seems to be clearly superior in technology.
 
Seska never was very smart... kind of like the rest of the various clandestine "intelligence" agencies of the Alpha quadrant. She decides that feeding technology to the Kazon is the way to let them go home without even trying to understand the Kazons motivations and that giving them a taste will just make them more inclined to seize the entire ship.

It's the same sort of stupid shit that most of the various agencies engage in back in the Alpha quadrant, they all seem to wear their pants on their heads for some reason.

There is a pretty entertaining story about a Starfleet Intelligence operative that continously complains about the stupidity of everyone he's ever met in the community and how he basically waltzes through every encounter through sheer chutzpah and the idiocy of his opponents. You do not want to hear his opinion on Section 31.
 
Rhostadt said:
Why did she side with the Kazon in canon? She'd rather rule in hell, than serve in heaven.
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Memory Alpha suggests she just burned all her bridges because she apparently couldn't process that if her highest priority was getting back to the Alpha Quadrant staying on Voyager was more important than writing Voyager's foreign policy to her liking.
 
Alright, fascist space lizard being a moron because everyone smarter got killed for opposing fascism, got it.
 
E M Berner said:
There is a pretty entertaining story about a Starfleet Intelligence operative that continously complains about the stupidity of everyone he's ever met in the community and how he basically waltzes through every encounter through sheer chutzpah and the idiocy of his opponents. You do not want to hear his opinion on Section 31.
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Title or link, please? Your description promises many chuckle-worthy moments.
 
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    • I looked out the window of the mess hall at the whirling clouds of gas as we slipped through the depths of the nebula.

    It was late ship night and I wanted to go to sleep, but I had just finished the last inspections and I needed my brain to spin down a bit before I tried to sleep.

    I was unused to being the one hunted.

    Quite frankly, I did not care for it. It was a lot more fun from the other side.

    We'll leave the nebula tomorrow, that should make it possible for us to slip away at high warp.

    The Kazon didn't have enough ships to cover the entire nebula, even if they called in every ship in range, no matter which group it belonged to. But how did they find us in the first place?

    I had detected no signals from Voyager, not even from the sensor locks I had the computer keep on The Neelix and Kes.

    Nothing had been outgoing. I had even looked through the engine logs, the warp field stability, everything. Nothing was transmitting even simple pulses.

    We were as quiet as we could be.

    So how did a strike force (if you could call it that) of Kazon heavy cruisers find us? Especially emerging from the nebula, from this murk? They couldn't have seen us coming.

    All of which meant that we weren't transmitting, they couldn't have seen us...

    Which means that they had been alerted some other way. Not only of where we were, but also of our course well ahead of time to get those ships time to get into position.

    The Val Jean has been off to trade with a starbase in the next system.

    Conveniently not in position to assist.

    But what would be won by them if Voyager was taken by the Kazon? They would be even more stranded than before. Their ship didn't have a chance in hell to make it back solo and Chakotay was smart enough to know that. And even if he wasn't, I knew Torres was.

    Something just was not making any sense here.

    I was missing something.

    I glanced at my nose. Come on, alien supercomputer, what am I missing here?

    Nothing.

    Useless piece of crap.

    A slight sound outside. Harry Kim.

    I turned my head as he walked in, "Late night or early morning, Ensign?" I asked him.

    "...Bit of both I think, sir," He said and walked over to the replicator, soon finding a nearby table holding a cup of coffee that seemed sized for Janeway, "What about you?"

    I snorted, "Late night. Thinking."

    "About?"

    "How they found us. I'm missing a piece, something about it is not making sense."

    Harry nodded, "Any clues?"

    I shook my head, "Only clue I found is a complete lack of clues. Which means that either I missed something or it's something different going on. We're being tracked in some way."

    "The Maquis?" he asked with a frown.

    "Doesn't make sense either," I sighed, "They have nothing to win and everything to lose by it. It makes much more sense for it to be a third party, Kazon or other that somehow has a way to track us.

    "Cloaked ship?"

    Thinking about it for a second I then shook my head, "Does not make sense either. If they had that kind of tech, they wouldn't need Voyager. But it's still a possibility. Bring it up at tomorrow's status meeting perhaps. Wouldn't hurt to scan for cloaked ship signatures."

    He nodded and frowned, sipping his coffee.

    "Radiation signature?" he finally asked.

    "Nothing special about our radiation signature. Sure, we're recognizable as a Federation ship, but that's not something that can be detected at long range," I said, "At least not on long enough range to be useful to track us. I guess somebody could track our ion trail, but we're faster than they are. And compared to theirs, ours is really weak."

    Harry sipped his coffee again, "We don't get a lot to go on then."

    "Hence, my issue with it," I said and flexed my claws, "I think we need to lean into the teachings of Arthur C Doyle."

    "The author of Sherlock Holmes?"

    I nodded, "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'," I quoted, "We're not being tracked. We're not sending out signals. They're still tracking us. Which means..."

    "Someone is giving them our location and course."

    "It makes no sense for it to be the Maquis," I told him seriously, "But it's not coming from Voyager. And the alternative seems to be the Kazon, a people that barely know how to operate their own ships, have either a stealth ship or something with sensors that can track us better than any Federation ship could."

    Harry slowly nodded, "So stealth ship or the Maquis assisting them?"

    "Neither of which make sense," I agreed, "But like the saying is, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

    "How would we know which?"

    I tilted my head in thought, "The best way would be to split up from the Maquis vessel for an extended period and see if the Kazon lose track of us. How to get away with it without being obvious is... uncertain."

    "Maybe suggest they gather some resources if we go for a second source?"

    "Maybe," I admitted and shifted my wings, "Let's see what we can figure out."
     
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    • Obviously we, the readers, know about Ceska, but I'm surprised they haven't considered the idea of a traitor in the ranks of the Marquis. In an organization as slap dash and informal as a guerilla resistance there's bound to be more dissension in the ranks and failure of discipline than on a starfleet vessel. Someone who disagrees with Chakotay's command decisions with the skills to sneak a signal to the Kazon isn't a stretch.
     
    My assumption is he assumes that the Marquis ship would, like Voyager, be keeping proper-enough track of emissions that no one should be able to sneak messages out without being noticed. Thus someone high up in command would have to be involved.
     
    Byzantine said:
    My assumption is he assumes that the Marquis ship would, like Voyager, be keeping proper-enough track of emissions that no one should be able to sneak messages out without being noticed. Thus someone high up in command would have to be involved.
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    Considering his activities he clearly doesn't assume anybody else on Voyager has that sufficiently covered...


    Unless I missed something, he doesn't seem to have properly considered the really low tech solutions. After all, information leaving a ship doesn't have to be in the form of modulated radiation. Many situations offer easy opportunities to drop off a message in a bottle.

    (The reverse communication is far more problematic - how anybody would have gotten a message from the Kazon without it being widely noticed is a puzzle I don't have an answer to.)
     
    Or even better yet, tell the Maquis ship about a route you're not actually going to follow, then turn the trap on the would be trappers.

    Hopefully this time they can prevent the crazed Cardassian bitch from getting away.
     
    Byzantine said:
    My assumption is he assumes that the Marquis ship would, like Voyager, be keeping proper-enough track of emissions that no one should be able to sneak messages out without being noticed. Thus someone high up in command would have to be involved.
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    well, if I recall correctly, Seska is acting as Chakotay's First Officer, so that would qualify as 'someone high up in command'
     
    honestly it should be obvious even if it's preposterous; somebody thinks they can benefit by selling out starfleet and the maquis, there's no possibility of the scrappy tech stealers having supertech or theyd be using it everywhere and whoever had it would be running the system.
     
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