| After
Voyager is severely attacked by Kazon and one of its crewmen killed,
Chakotay appeals to Janeway to start thinking more like the Maquis.
Janeway knows she must strengthen Voyager's position in the quadrant
and, although it's a difficult decision and is against her beliefs
and training, she agrees to take steps toward a strategic alliance
with leaders of several Kazon factions. When they come together
for a conference, its eminently clear that there are no rules in
this region of space. Unbeknownst to Voyager, there is a traitor
in their midst.
Seeking an intermediary to begin
talks with the Kazon, Neelix shuttles to Sobras, a planet with
a Kazon settlement. There, he makes contact with an acquaintance
-- Jal Tersa of Kazon-Pommar. Meanwhile Janeway's initial meeting
with Culluh and Seska is unsuccessful but Neelix is able to befriend
Mabus, a governor of the Trabe, an exiled sect and bitter enemies
of the Kazon. Thinking that the Trabe have compatible goals of
peaceful co-existence, Janeway forms an alliance with them --
with deadly results.
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