S01.E16: Preludes

[AnimeMania]

A Starfleet Admiral digs into the past of the Protostar crew. Meanwhile, the Diviner recalls his life’s mission.

Original Airdate: Thursday, December 1, 2022  on Paramount+ 

[readster]

Well, at least everything now makes sense. Also seeing that the Kazon are still a horrible race to everything they have done since Voyager. Also, I'm glad that Vice Admiral Janeway is now putting the pieces together about what happened with the Protostar. However, as we can see, time travel screws up more stuff than you think. 

[DrScottie]

So the backstories are essentially Wreck it Ralph where a so-called "Monster" in Red decides that they don't want to be the bad one anymore and faces consequences for it, Passengers where someone gets woken up from stasis after a sleeper spaceship receives critical damage and needs to repair it or everyone dies, and The Martian where an astronaut is stranded when the fellow astronauts leave without them. What's different is the next step is them being sold into slavery. Nonetheless, I did enjoy the episode and now we know why Jankom Pog refers to himself in the third person so often. 

[readster]

The thing is, we get what is going on with the Diviner, but it's the classic: "We could have accepted our faults and we took things the wrong way and rebuild. But nah, blame The Federation, if they wouldn't have shown up, life would have been great. Ohhhh.... time lost ship from the past? I got an idea!"

[ottoDbusdriver]

I guess this means that Chakotay and the rest of the Protostar crew are still in the future, status unknown.

So just The Diviner and Asencia (The Vindicator) traveled back from the future at 2 different seemingly random times (thanks temporal anomaly/wormhole).  Also explains why the Protostar may have returned much, much earlier than even the Diviner did -- and ended up buried inside Tars Lamora.

Consistent to see that the Kazon haven't changed much after all this time.

Still didn't explain why the Tellarite ship was in the Delta quadrant in the first place.  Or what the Medusan ship was doing in the Delta quadrant.
Is it that easy for anyone to get to the Delta quadrant now, especially the region where the Kazon are located. Because that seems unlikely.

[starri]

1 hour ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

Still didn't explain why the Tellarite ship was in the Delta quadrant in the first place.

It was an exploratory mission.  The ship was a similar design to one that was seen on Enterprise.  If Jankom's ship launched even during the run of the show, we're at least 250 years from that.  They could get that far in that time.

The Medusan ship is the same as one that was seen in the Remastered version of "Is There In Truth No Beauty," so they probably headed out during the TOS era.  While we perceive Zero as a teen like Gwyn, Dal, and Jankom, we don't really know how old they are chronologically.