CAPTAIN'S BLOG

I also was intrigued by the episode. However, when Nog worked on the device and needed protection, the Heralds behaved irrational to me. Approaching from far away isn't really the way they do it, is it?

Including the Kremmin is awesome. Still I'm disturbed by them having the plans to Annorax's Timeship.
I always had the feeling, that we are going to travel back in time 200,000 years and attack the Iconians in the first place, but now I fear that Cryptic is attempting to eradicate them from history completely.
That is something that Klingons and KDF-aligned Romulans probably would be fine with, but the Federation possibly partaking in a Genocide? That thought gives me a chill.

I can't wait for the story line to conclude.

Sounds like this is setting up to have a self-fulfilling prophesy. The Iconians are driven away from their home and break up their empire by the Fed/KDF/Rom from the future because the Iconians in the future were horrible people because they were bent on revenge from the Fed/KDF/Rom driving them from their homeworld because the Iconians are horrible people because their bent on revenge… oh goodness! Not sure how to write themselves out of this. Since this is the Kremmin weapon, maybe they’ll just find an Iconian item and wipe them entirely from existence and see what all breaks in the timeline… that didn’t lead to a "Year of Hell" that no one remembers anyway.

I’m getting a headache now. We’ll have to see what Cryptic has in mind.

I think the "Weapon Ship" schematic is either a red herring or a setup to question the Krenim's eventual plans.

We know the Krenim Imperium was at its dominance when they had ships equipped with Chroniton-based weapons that were slightly out of phase with normal time. They were arrogant and cocky, unwilling to be diplomatic. They fired on any ship violating their borders.

But they don't know that, unless Tuvok gets involved. And if that information on the Krenim from "Before and After" ever made it into Voyager's memory banks, now's the time to retrieve it and use it. Hopefully Tim Russ has a bit of a role in the next FE, scouring Voyager's databanks based on the slight mention of "Krenim" from his past.

So I see a few things possibly going on at the end:

1) We cooperate with the Krenim to build the Weapon Ship...just for the Krenim to eventually use it against us.

2) We start work on the Weapon Ship with the Krenim, just for the Krenim to study the "Year of Hell" timeline further and discover the alliance that took down Annorax as the Nahydron (sp?), the Mawasi (sp?)...and Voyager. They try to complete the Weapon Ship without us, which turns into a side conflict.

3) We build the Weapon Ship with the Krenim, take out the Iconians with it, and see the changes to Earth, Qo'Nos, New Romulus, and every species as bad. However, with the Krenim now also firmly in control, another mission will be the takeover of the Weapon Ship to try and make things right.

4) It's simply an ominous harbinger for the viewer/player to wonder what could happen. We wonder and wonder and wonder, hoping our heroes catch on to the dangers of this Weapon Ship.


I have a feeling Starfleet will eventually believe the Krenim Weapon Ship is tantamount to genocide. Voyager's crew recognized that off the bat. I wonder if Nog, in the excitement of finding the Krenim and a ship that can help defeat the Iconians once and for all, didn't get Starfleet more involved than it needed to be at that stage. I imagine Admiral Tuvok wouldn't be too happy about Nog's seeming willingness to jump the Alliance into shipbuilding without a proper review.