We also promised the audience that the Delta Quadrant would be the great unknown. A territory like the Australian outback in the 1870s or whatever. Who knows what you’re going to find out there, but it’s really fucking dangerous. Probably gonna die, assholes. But that’s not what the show became, and fairly quickly it’s, like, “Okay, well, Chakotay is the first officer, he and Janeway have this cordial relationship, and we meet the Kazon, guys with a different kind of rubber mask than the other aliens we’ve met in the four hundred or some-odd episodes of Star Trek that had been produced to
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