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142-542: The Kazon ( / ˈ k eɪ z ɒ n / ) are a fictional alien race in the Star Trek franchise. Developed by Star Trek: Voyager series' co-creators Rick Berman , Michael Piller , and Jeri Taylor , the Kazon serve as the primary antagonists during the show's first two seasons. They are represented as a nomadic species divided into eighteen separate sects, and characterized by their reliance on violence. A patriarchal society,

284-478: A player character . Older editions of Dungeons & Dragons called the primary non-human player races ( dwarf , elf , gnome , halfling , and half-elf , half-orc) "demi-humans." Later games such as Shadowrun use the term "metahuman," and define these humanoid races as subdivisions of Homo sapiens . Transporter (Star Trek) Introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series in 1966,

426-767: A pulp manner with no examination of their effects on society, only to create more spectacular effects than science fiction alone can provide. An example of this is the use of the Force by the Jedi in the Star Wars franchise. Many fantasy creatures are inspired by European folklore and the romances of medieval Europe. Dragons and unicorns are among the most popular creatures. Other monsters, such as griffins , giants , and goblins also appear. Races of intelligent beings such as elves , dwarves , and gnomes often draw their history from medieval or pre-Christian roots. Characteristics of

568-430: A "shorthand ' Crips ' and ' Bloods ' fashion". The idea for the Kazon as warrior sects, as opposed to a unified race, was introduced by Taylor, who drafted them as "three gangs, with constantly shifting relationships and allegiances. Just as we think we have sorted it out, the balance shifts again." While discussing the Kazon's original inspiration, Taylor viewed them as a way "to address the tenor of our times and what [...]

710-586: A Borg ship. Also in TOS episode " Obsession " Kirk and a fellow crewman beam down to the surface of a planet with an antimatter bomb. The TAS episode " One of Our Planets Is Missing " has the Enterprise beaming a chunk of antimatter into a stasis box. In the original series, beaming to and from the transporter chamber was a necessity. This is explained in the TOS episode " Day of the Dove ". Spock and Scotty had said that doing

852-631: A Dark Lord often controls great armies and can be portrayed as possessing devil-like qualities. A Dark Lord is usually depicted as the ultimate personification of evil. The villain of the Demon Sword video game is also literally called Dark Lord. In the Lone Wolf gamebooks , the Dark Lords are a race of powerful evil beings. The protagonists of the Overlord video game franchise are classic Dark Lords in

994-542: A camp of people barely able to survive, bereft of creature comforts and living a harsh, hardscrabble life. They are the Gazon, whom we will come to know, over the course of the series, as a lethal, deadly sect who subject themselves to these dire circumstances in return for the possible acquisition of power. During the summer of 1994, Gazon was changed to Kazon , as it was feared that the name sounded too much like Gaza . The producers suggested this change to avoid stories involving

1136-477: A computer pattern buffer to enable a degree of leeway in the process. When asked "How does the Heisenberg compensator work?" by Time magazine, Star Trek technical adviser Michael Okuda responded: "It works very well, thank you." According to The Original Series ( TOS ) writers' guide, the effective range of a transporter is 40,000 kilometers. The TOS episode " Obsession " however, appears to indicate that

1278-501: A dangerous and experimental " subspace transporter" capable of interstellar distances and the Dominion had the ability to transport over great distances ( DS9 : " Covenant "). The 40,000-kilometer limit is also referred to in ENT : " Daedalus ". It was established in TOS episode " Arena " that the transporter cannot be used when the ship's deflector shields are up. Starfleet transporters from

1420-417: A dense nebula. At the same time, Kazon warriors pursue an away team, led by Tuvok , which was tasked to explore a wilderness planet. The novel focuses on Janeway's dilemma whether to help the away team or the ship's crew, and is intercut with flashbacks to her childhood and training at Starfleet Academy . During the events of Pathways , Kes recounts her first encounters with the Kazon. The Kazon also appear in

1562-577: A lesser extent, of sword and sorcery — which contains more urban settings — than of fantasy in general; the preponderance of epic fantasy in the genre has made them fantasy commonplaces. They are less typical of contemporary fantasy , especially urban fantasy . A less common inspiration is the ancient world . A famous example is the Hyborian Age (the fictional world of Conan the Barbarian ), which features analogues of Ancient Egypt , Mesopotamia , and

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1704-416: A list by Io9 's Charlie Jane Anders profiling the 10 least threatening Star Trek villains. Anders explained that the Kazon were more frequently represented as irritating pests than a major obstacle to Voyager ' s journey home. Charles Evans of FanSided questioned the Kazon's desperation for water, since they could use their warp technology to gather it from other planets. Even though Evans described

1846-410: A majority of the "action-adventure" aspects being conducted through the appearances of the Kazon. Following the end of the second season, Taylor decided to remove the Kazon as the series' primary antagonists, having found the effort to develop the alien species to be unsuccessful. She felt that they never grew into a compelling adversary, despite their appearances in multiple episodes. Taylor argued that

1988-405: A meeting on September 10 of the same year. In the first draft of the script for "Caretaker", Piller named the alien species the "Gazon" and wrote the following description of them: They are a lean, scrawny people who dress in an assortment of unkempt clothing. Some are in nothing more than rags. Their skin is parched and desiccated; the sun has produced blotches and sores on some. This appears to be

2130-442: A moment she thought she was trapped in a nearby wall, to which Worf replied, "For a moment, you were". In later stories ( TNG : " The Emissary " and TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds "), it was confirmed that the transporter would work at warp only if the sending and receiving sites were moving at equal velocities. In his book The Physics of Star Trek , after explaining the difference between transporting information and transporting

2272-470: A more delicate physicality than the men. According to Westmore, the prosthetic make-up for the forehead was structured in a shape reminiscent of the Devil , while the ridges on the nose were inspired by a vulture 's neck. The nose designs were modified throughout the first two seasons with the addition of a nose tip and spikes protruding from the nostrils. The Kazon's design was the subject of fan criticism following

2414-405: A person or object is transported, the machine creates a memory file of the pattern. This has been used at least once in every Star Trek series to revert people adversely affected by a transport to their original state. Various episodes of Deep Space Nine ( DS9 ) and Voyager ( VOY ) have introduced two anti-transporter devices: transport inhibitors and transporter scramblers. Inhibitors prevent

2556-412: A person or object properly in some bizarre way that creates a science-fictional problem or ethical dilemma that characters must resolve. In various episodes, transporter accidents have been used to send characters to a parallel universe , or back in time ; to split a character into two distinct individuals, or merge two characters into a single individual; and to regress adult characters to children, among

2698-582: A prophecy in a fantasy to be false, although usually, their significance is only clear with hindsight. Quibbles can undermine the clearest appearing prophecies. In The Lord of the Rings , J. R. R. Tolkien minimized the use of the word 'magic'; beings who use such abilities tend to be confused when they are described this way by others. Science fantasy stories often make use of scientifically implausible powers similar to magic, such as psychics . However, unlike true science fiction works, these powers are used in

2840-449: A replicator and a transporter rather than offensive weapons lessened their impact as a threatening presence, suggesting that the possibility of relations with the Kazon did not "seem much more heinous than dealing with the Klingons or Ferengi , who oppress women and minorities within their borders". Despite negative critical reception of the Kazon, the scene in which they commandeer Voyager

2982-409: A second wave of Playmates Toys ' Star Trek merchandise. The same year, Applause produced a ceramic mug whose design was based on the face of a generic Kazon male. Several figures on Kazon spacecraft were released by Revell , such as those for the raider ship and torpedo. Revell included the raider ship figurine as a part of a three-piece set, along with ones for a Maquis ship and USS Voyager . In

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3124-414: A ship's shields or planetary defense shields, there are instances of this "rule" being broken through a technobabble solution ( TNG : " The Wounded ", DS9 : " Trials and Tribble-ations ") or disregarded by the show's writers ( Voyager : " Caretaker "). The non-canon TNG Technical Manual describes how a starship may create "windows" in the shield geometry through which a transporter beam may propagate at

3266-476: A single human cell (not the positions of the atoms, just the gene sequences) together with a "brain state" would take 4,850 trillion years assuming a 30 gigahertz microwave bandwidth. A study by Eric Davis for the US Air Force Research Laboratory of speculative teleportation technologies showed that to dematerialize a human body by heating it up to a million times the temperature of the core of

3408-420: A site-to-site transport, as they are referred to on the show, on board the ship could be risky. They could beam into a deck or other inanimate object and get stuck there. However, there are apparently safeguards in place to prevent people from being beamed into hostile environments such as under water and into lava pits, although it is possible to override this safety feature; for example, in the TOS episode " And

3550-482: A tale as Through the Looking-Glass , Alice is made a queen in the end; this can serve as a symbolic recognition of the hero's inner worth. Commonly, these tales revolve around the maltreated hero coming into his or her own. This can reflect a wish-fulfillment dream, or symbolically embody a profound transformation. The forces of evil are often personified in a "Dark Lord". Besides possessing vast magical abilities,

3692-571: A temporary truce. In their final major appearance, the Kazon successfully commandeer Voyager , but are eventually forced to surrender and retreat. The alien species have minor cameo appearances and references in the show's subsequent seasons, and have also been included in Star Trek Online and novels set in the Star Trek universe . Inspired by gangs like the Crips and Bloods , the Kazon were seen by

3834-547: A transporter beam from "locking on" to whatever the device is attached to. Scramblers distort the pattern that is in transit, literally scrambling the atoms upon rematerialization, resulting in the destruction of inanimate objects and killing living beings by rematerializing them as masses of random tissue; this was gruesomely demonstrated in the DS9 episode " The Darkness and the Light ". Transporter operations can also be curtailed when either

3976-657: A variety of other effects. According to dialogue in the Star Trek: Enterprise ( ENT ) episode " Daedalus ", the transporter was invented in the early 22nd century by Dr. Emory Erickson, who also became the first human to be successfully transported. Although the Enterprise (NX-01) has a transporter, the crew does not routinely use it for moving biological organisms. Instead, they generally prefer using shuttlepods or other means of transportation unless no other means of transportation are possible or feasible. The capability

4118-448: Is a theme in the many popular forms of fantasy; normally, evil characters invade and disrupt the good characters' lands. J. R. R. Tolkien delved into the nature of good and evil in The Lord of the Rings , but many of those who followed him use the conflict as a plot device , and often do not distinguish the sides by their behavior. In some works, most notably in sword and sorcery , evil

4260-543: Is delineated in the book in which it appears. It can appear in a fantasy world (as in The Lord of the Rings or Shannara ), or in a fantasy land that is part of reality but insulated from the mundane lands (as in Xanth ), or as a hidden element in real life (as in The Dresden Files ). A common trope is that magical ability is innate and rare. As such, magic-wielding people are common figures in fantasy. Another feature

4402-411: Is identified as "hungry for power and eager to make a name for himself" and "more cunning and intelligent than most Kazon". The Kazon also appear in novels based on the Star Trek franchise, including Mosaic and Pathways , both written by Star Trek: Voyager co-creator Jeri Taylor . In Mosaic , the Kazon launch an ambush against Voyager by drawing the crew into battle against a Kazon warship in

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4544-500: Is not opposed by the unambiguously good but by the morally unreliable. Heroic characters are a mainstay of fantasy, particularly high fantasy and sword and sorcery . Such characters are capable of more than ordinary behavior, physically, morally, or both. Sometimes they might have to grow into the role ordained for them. This may take the form of maturation, which is often through Coming of Age . Many protagonists are, unknown to themselves, of royal blood . Even in so fanciful

4686-460: Is rare; in " The Andorian Incident ", the Andorians , technologically far superior to Starfleet in many regards, are explicitly stated not to possess the technology. In " Chosen Realm ", a group of alien religious extremists who hijack the ship is unaware of it to the point that when Archer insists on sacrificing a crew member and claims that the device disintegrates matter rather than teleporting it, he

4828-460: Is revealed to be a Cardassian agent who had infiltrated Chakotay's Maquis cell, subsequently objecting to the merging of crews, and Janeway's refusal to violate the Prime Directive. Seska secretly funnels information to the Kazon in order to build an alliance with the alien species and expedite Voyager ' s journey home. After being caught while attempting to deliver replicator technology to

4970-406: Is the magic item , which can endow characters with magical abilities or enhance the abilities of the innately powerful. Among the most common are magic swords and magic rings . Self-fulfilling prophecies are amongst the most common forms of magic because they are an often used plot device . Often the effort undertaken to avert them brings them about, thus driving the story. It is very rare for

5112-431: Is the father of her child. The Voyager crew retake the ship after Suder sacrifices himself to sabotage its phaser weapon systems. Seska is killed by an exploding console in the ensuing fight, and Culluh takes his child and leaves with the rest of the Kazon. Even though the Kazon are not prominent beyond "Basics", they are referenced in subsequent seasons. In the fourth season , Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) reveals that

5254-577: Is unhesitatingly taken at his word. The crew aboard the 23rd century USS Enterprise frequently use the transporter. By the 24th century , transporter travel was reliable and "the safest way to travel" according to dialogue in the Star Trek: The Next Generation ( TNG ) episode " Realm of Fear ". According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Homefront ", Starfleet Academy cadets receive transporter rations, and

5396-486: The Voyager episode " Tuvix ", a transporter accident combines both the physical and behavioral aspects of Lt. Tuvok and Neelix into a single being wearing a melange of each other's clothing. Notably, Tuvix was of equal mass of both Tuvok and Neelix combined. When they were later separated, Neelix and Tuvok were both wearing Starfleet uniforms. While several characters have asserted that transporters cannot transport through

5538-456: The Borg never assimilate the Kazon, whom they refer to as species 329 and "unworthy of assimilation" due to a belief they would "detract from perfection". A Kazon crew member was included on a holographic reconstruction of Voyager as a warship. The Kazon also appear in both " Relativity " and " Shattered ", which deal with time travel . In both episodes, characters visit the point at which Seska and

5680-520: The Roman Empire , among others. Three notable recent series with such settings are: Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud , Percy Jackson & the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan . Many fantasy stories and worlds refer to their main sapient humanoid creatures as races, rather than species , in order to distinguish them from non-sapient creatures. J. R. R. Tolkien popularized

5822-535: The Sikarians. The Kazon and Vidiians would be featured in later episodes, while the appearance of the Sikarians was restricted to the episode " Prime Factors ". Westmore found the Kazon to be the most demanding species to design for Voyager 's first season, though, overall, he found the make-up and prosthetic work for Voyager easier than that required for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . He explained this by comparing

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5964-680: The Sisko family once used a transporter to move furniture into a new home. Despite its frequent use, characters such as Leonard McCoy and Katherine Pulaski are reluctant to use the transporter, as the characters express in the Next Generation episodes " Encounter at Farpoint " and " Unnatural Selection ", respectively. Reginald Barclay expresses his outright fear of transporting in " Realm of Fear ". The television series and films do not go into great detail about transporter technology. The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual claims that

6106-405: The Star Trek franchise. The representation of the Kazon as antagonists has been criticized by genre commentators and academics as an example of racism in the Star Trek franchise. Christina Niculescu and Yonit Nemtzeanu were critical of the dark-skinned Kazon being treated as more aggressive than the more diplomatic, fair-skinned alien species. They determined that the representation of the Kazon

6248-518: The Star Trek universe, prior to the arrival of Voyager in the Delta Quadrant, hostilities between the Trabe and the Kazon led to the Trabe keeping them subjugated. Violence between the Kazon was encouraged to limit the risk of them rising up against the Trabe. Before being conquered by the Trabe, the Kazon were the most advanced society in the quadrant. On stardate 2346, Jal Sankur united the sects into

6390-497: The TNG episode " The Host ", Trill were unable to be transported, once joined with a symbiont. It seems that was due to the symbiont being detected and removed by the transporter technology as an infestation in the host. Odan, the Trill host in this episode, is reluctant to say why he will not travel this way, and it only becomes apparent that he is carrying a symbiont when he is later injured. All

6532-643: The TNG era onward include a device that can detect and disable an active weapon ( TNG : " The Most Toys "), and a bio-filter to remove contagious microbes or viruses from an individual in transport ( TNG : " Shades of Gray ", TOS : " The Naked Time "). The transporter can also serve a tactical purpose, such as beaming a photon grenade or photon torpedo to detonate at remote locations ( TNG : " Legacy ", VOY : " Dark Frontier "), or to outright destroy objects ( TNG : " Captain's Holiday "). The TOS episode " A Taste of Armageddon " mentions Vendikar materializing fusion bombs over targets of enemy planet Eminiar VII in

6674-630: The Talaxian Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) is revealed to have completed business deals with the alien species in the past. After seeing a display of the advanced technology on USS Voyager , specifically the replicator and transporter , the Kazon develop schemes to steal these machines and incorporate them into their own ships. Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) refuses to provide the hostile alien species with any information regarding Voyager ' s technology because of her fear of upsetting

6816-602: The Voyager episode " In the Flesh ", a medical console is used to transport a body from the morgue to the surgical bay). A possible explanation for this is put forward in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual , where such site-to-site transports would probably use twice as much energy as would be required for transport to or from the transporter room itself, since the subject would have to be beamed to

6958-462: The mirror universe presented in Keith DeCandido 's short story "The Mirror-Scale Serpent", published in the collection Obsidian Alliances . In this universe, Voyager was never stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Rather than being rescued by Neelix and Voyager ' s crew, Kes uses her psionic powers to kill all of her Kazon captors. In 1996, an action figure of a Kazon was released as part of

7100-505: The "annular confinement beam", a component of the transporter mentioned in the various television episodes which serves to keep patterns separate from one another. In the same film, Mr. Spock is beamed onto a cloaked ship while walking. According to the TNG Technical Manual , the transporter cannot move antimatter , but in the Voyager episode " Dark Frontier " Voyager transported a live photon torpedo equipped with antimatter onto

7242-482: The Children Shall Lead ", two security guards are beamed into open space. In the following series, however, the transporter room seems to become mostly obsolete, the actual equipment notwithstanding. Characters are shown activating the transporter from ordinary consoles and beaming from place to place without apparent trouble. The main operator can likewise send those in transport anywhere with ease (for example, in

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7384-530: The Future ) indicates that this was the closest anyone came to using that catchphrase in an official Star Trek production. In August 2008, physicist Michio Kaku predicted in Discovery Channel Magazine that a teleportation device similar to those in Star Trek would be invented within 100 years. Physics students at University of Leicester calculated that to "beam up" just the genetic information of

7526-550: The Kazon (then identified as the Crips) as a "gang which, in conflict with two other gangs, competes for territory in this region of space". Taylor's notes suggest that the show's co-creators considered having the Crips reach a truce with the main characters, which would anger another one of the gangs (then titled the Blood) and lead to them being the primary antagonists. This idea was later dropped at

7668-527: The Kazon Order or the Kazon Collective to overthrow the Trabe. The Kazon stole the Trabe's technology and ships and, rather than settle on a new homeworld, became a nomadic species. After achieving independence from the Trabe, the Kazon continued to fight among themselves for control of resources and technology. In Star Trek: Voyager , the Kazon are known under the collective title of the Kazon Order, but

7810-457: The Kazon are characterized as primitive/inferior, savage, and criminal, and argue that the Kazon's appearance and behavior were designed to elicit a negative response from the audience. They described the Kazon's clothing as resembling that of guerrilla warriors , and their hair and faces as "wild" and "threatening". Though the Kazon are not shown as having a standing army, they are defined as a militaristic society. Niculescu and Nemtzeanu noted that

7952-489: The Kazon as a pessimistic feature of the Delta Quadrant, which he read as a metaphor for the developing world. Emphasizing the Kazon's mistreatment of the Ocampa, plans to steal from Voyager ' s more developed technology, and inability to form lasting alliances, Gonzalez describes the series as interpreting race relations in developing countries as "inherently contentious and inevitably destabilizing". He concluded by saying that

8094-405: The Kazon as starting from a good premise, he did not find them to live up to their label as "the most powerful race in their area of the Delta Quadrant". TrekToday 's Michelle Erica Green provided extensive and primarily negative commentary on the Kazon story arc in the first two seasons while re-watching the series. The Kazon were negatively compared to the Klingons by Green, who described

8236-487: The Kazon dialogue is marked by its frequent use of violent language. According to Seska, Kazon medicine is rudimentary and "primitive". Even though the Kazon are the only classified species that the Borg refuse to assimilate, Janeway included in her reports that they are a "tricky and dangerous foe". In Star Trek: Voyager , the Kazon's military focus is heavily contrasted with the humanistic United Federation of Planets . Through

8378-476: The Kazon have a low opinion of women, and place pride in men becoming warriors and proving themselves in battle. The Kazon storylines frequently revolve around the attempts of Jal Culluh and his Kazon sect to steal technology from the USS Voyager , with the assistance of former Voyager ensign Seska . During the second season, the Voyager crew uncover more about the alien species' history and culture through

8520-494: The Kazon heavy raider and have access to its bridge . The MMORPG's official website promotes the craft's greatest strength as "its maneuverability and versatility". The site also mentions that the Kazon have improved their technology since their encounter with Voyager by scavenging more advanced materials from other species. Prior to the announcement of a new Star Trek incarnation, Star Trek: Voyager 's co-creators Rick Berman , Michael Piller , and Jeri Taylor conceived

8662-440: The Kazon hit the bill." Mulgrew felt the crew's mission to get home was a more compelling storyline than those related to the Kazon, whom she criticized as "great big stupid giants". The Kazon have received a negative response from television critics . In his 2005 book An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica , literary critic John Kenneth Muir argued that the events of Star Trek: Voyager lost their urgency with

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8804-479: The Kazon limited the potential of the series, saying: "It created the curious implication that we are standing still in space, when our franchise is that we are going at incredible speeds toward the Alpha Quadrant – we keep running into the same people over and over again! It was just an oddity, and I don't think the Kazon have served us well." While discussing their role in the future episodes, she explained that it

8946-426: The Kazon storylines were in line with "neoconservative biases/reasoning". For a 2015 retrospective review of the Star Trek franchise, MoviePilot 's David Trudel wrote that he was disappointed in the breakdown of the alliance between the Kazon and the Trabe in the episode "Alliances". He felt that the series should have featured the formation of a new Federation starting with these two alien species. Some critics viewed

9088-526: The Kazon storylines. He explained his decision by saying he "felt we had built up this arc with them and it was a natural conclusion". The Kazon were replaced by storylines focusing on the Vidiians, the Borg , and the Hirogen . Voyager ' s cast members had a negative response to the continued inclusion of the Kazon in the series and felt that their removal was the best course of action. Tim Russ commented that

9230-422: The Kazon to secure safe passage through their area of space. During this process, the crew meet with the Trabe, an alien species who were persecuted by the Kazon following a violent feud. Janeway decides to ally with the Trabe and sets up a peace conference at the suggestion of Mabus (Charles O. Lucia), a Trabe leader. However, the Voyager crew discover that the Trabe mistreated the Kazon in the past and want to use

9372-428: The Kazon were in control of Voyager . The Kazon are included in Star Trek Online , a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Cryptic Studios based on the Star Trek franchise. In the game, which is set in the 25th century , 30 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis , the sect Kazon-Nistrim is classified as a rising power after a new leader took control away from Culluh. He

9514-450: The Kazon's story arc in the second season from his experiences working on the 1995 science fiction Western television show Legend . Taylor was uncertain about the renewed focus on the Kazon, and questioned if they were compelling antagonists. She described them as entirely Piller's idea. Executive story editor Kenneth Biller wrote a paper detailing the Kazon's history and societal behavior, as well as their adversarial relationship with

9656-410: The Kazon, Seska leaves Voyager to join them and becomes Culluh's lover and primary adviser. During " Initiations ", Chakotay becomes entangled with Kar ( Aron Eisenberg ), a young Kazon attempting to complete a rite of passage, and tries to act as a mentor for him. In " Maneuvers ", Seska sets up a trap, resulting in the Kazon stealing a transporter module from Voyager . She advises Culluh to engineer

9798-539: The Kazon. Believing that the large amount of space under the Kazon's control was implausible, he argued that the number of times Voyager encountered the alien species would make their territory bigger than the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire . Producer Brannon Braga supported the Kazon's removal, criticizing the species as "half-baked Klingons" and their constant inclusion in episodes as making

9940-594: The Prime Continuity used in all previous media and the Star Trek Online computer game.) To deposit an away team on the planet Gravesworld while at the same time responding to a distress signal, the Enterprise would only drop out of warp drive just long enough to energize the transporter beam. Geordi La Forge personally performed the delicate operation, which involved compensating for the ship's relativistic motion. After materializing, Deanna Troi commented that for

10082-423: The Rings ) for example, was inspired from a variety of different sources including Germanic, Finnish, Greek, Celtic and Slavic myths. Literary fantasy works operate using these tropes, while others use them in a revisionist manner, making the tropes over for various reasons such as for comic effect, and to create something fresh (a method that often generates new clichés ). The conflict of good against evil

10224-425: The Trabe. Biller compiled all of his ideas on paper to help the various writers create a cohesive narrative for the Kazon across the individual episodes. Developed for one of his episodes—" Initiations "—the notes were also used by Taylor for the creation of " Alliances ". Biller pointed to the character of Seska as a key narrative device for further exploring the alien species. For Biller, Seska "allowed us to go behind

10366-416: The Vidiians as a more suitable and compelling candidate to serve as the primary antagonists for the first two seasons. Green questioned Janeway's resolve to never share Voyager ' s technology with the Kazon, writing that the species was characterized as "a spacefaring culture with warp drive" so the crew would not be "interfering with a primitive civilization". She argued that the Kazon's attempts to steal

10508-478: The actors and stunt doubles, and its material was changed to a more light-weight sponge. Voyager ' s writing team devoted a larger amount of screen time in the show's second season to develop Kazon culture and society. Piller described the season as "a deep investigation of [the Kazon] that will turn them, I think, into perhaps one of the top five adversarial alien races in Star Trek ' s history". Piller devised

10650-413: The actual atoms, Krauss notes that "The Star Trek writers seem never to have got it exactly clear what they want the transporter to do. Does the transporter send the atoms and the bits, or just the bits?" He notes that according to the canon definition of the transporter the former seems to be the case, but that that definition is inconsistent with a number of applications, particularly incidents, involving

10792-460: The ages of eighteen and twenty-five exclusively, but decided to cast older and more experienced performers as they tested better during the audition process. Voyager ' s writing team dedicated a large portion of season two to the development of the alien species, with Piller writing a paper on them that would be used for the development of the Kazon-centric episodes. The Kazon were removed from

10934-549: The alien race being interpreted as political commentary on the conflicts in the Palestinian territories . According to the Star Trek: Voyager Technical Manual , the Kazon were originally planned to be split into only two factions (the "Kazon-Sera" and the "Kazon-Ogla"). The Kazon's design was formulated around the beginning of June 1994. The series' make-up supervisor Michael Westmore was heavily involved in

11076-496: The basic concepts and characters during secret developmental meetings. The Kazon were originally created as a part of the show's basic premise of Voyager ' s crew being stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Berman, Piller, and Taylor reasoned that the characters would be traveling through an area of space controlled by a new alien race, serving as the show's primary antagonists, and created the Kazon to fill this role. The Kazon were inspired by Los Angeles gangs , and were referenced in

11218-653: The basing of the second season in Kazon space. He negatively compared Star Trek: Voyager to science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica , writing that Star Trek: Voyager could learn from how "the Galactica must go on, ever forward, to their destination". The alien species was described as "stereotypical macho space warriors" by writer K. Stoddard Hayes, who was critical of the lack of developed Kazon characters. He explained this up by saying: "No memorable Kazon characters emerge from two seasons of episodes featuring their different factions." Critics have also doubted

11360-532: The boy kills an enemy in battle or dies in battle. Those who fail this rite of passage are punished either by execution or public shaming . Fathers and sons are expected to have an emotionally distant relationship, with any signs of affection between them being considered shameful. Scholars Christina Niculescu and Yonit Nemtzeanu analysed Kazon culture to explore political correctness and themes of racial prejudice in Star Trek: Voyager . They determined that

11502-523: The carrier ships are viewed as more dangerous. Even though the Kazon's weapons are inferior to those on Voyager , the Starfleet crew's inability to resupply leaves them vulnerable to attacks. The Kazon vessels are visually represented as "dark, strictly functional" and without "any of the embellishments known from the bright, slick Federation ships". The ships are adorned with only the skulls and trophies of conquered enemies. In Star Trek Online , players can use

11644-516: The choice of more mature actors, as he felt this conflicted with the writers' concept of the species, making them appear too much like Klingons. The Kazon also received comparisons to the Cardassians and Wood Elves by Uproxx 's Donna Dickens. In the first season, the Kazon were introduced as one of three new alien species that could be used as recurring antagonists; the other two were the Vidiians and

11786-546: The course of theoretical computer warfare. Klingon transporters, as seen in Star Trek III , have a harsh red light in contrast to Federation blue, and operate with complete silence (in the movie, no sound effects). Presumably this is to enhance the combat effectiveness of Klingon boarding parties. It is not made clear whether Klingon transporters are more risky for the boarders, but the warlike Klingons are likely not to be concerned about transport casualties in combat. Whenever

11928-412: The creation of the look for the Kazon. While describing the species' facial features, Westmore said he constructed a skin protrusion along the nose and front of the face to simulate "a soft cockscomb , a rooster comb" rather than "the dinosaur bone-type of ridges". He said that there were very small visual differences between Kazon males and females, with the distinguishing characteristic being women having

12070-465: The crew of the Enterprise react as if they have had no contact with this species before. It later becomes apparent that joined Trill have been working in the Federation for some time. In season three of Star Trek: Discovery , set in the 32nd century, personal transporters are used. The famous catchphrase " Beam me up, Scotty " refers to the use of the transporter device to recall a crewmember to

12212-409: The crew to rescue Seska and his son from the Kazon, but they discover it is a trap to ambush Voyager . The Kazon takes control of the starship and maroons its crew on a seemingly desolate planet; The Doctor ( Robert Picardo ) and the troubled crewman Lon Suder ( Brad Dourif ) are the only two crew members left on board Voyager . The Doctor reveals to a disappointed Seska that Culluh, not Chakotay,

12354-482: The devices transport objects in real time, accurate to the quantum level. The episode TNG : " Realm of Fear " specifies the length of a transport under unusual circumstances would last "... four or five seconds; about twice the normal time" (making the length of a typical transport between 2 and 2.5 seconds). Heisenberg compensators remove uncertainty from the subatomic measurements, making transporter travel feasible. Further technology involved in transportation include

12496-431: The disabled USS Constellation to the Enterprise due to a power drain, and Scotty's pattern is nearly lost in transit. As soon as he successfully materializes, Scotty asks the transporter operator with concern, "What's the matter with that thing?" and orders the transporter to be taken offline for emergency repair. Some species do not use transporter technology for a variety of reasons. In the first appearance of Trill in

12638-476: The effectiveness of Kazon as villains. Britt found the Kazon to be among "the silliest, worst antagonists in Trek's history". Juliette Harrison of the website Den of Geek! wrote that the writers were too focused on the Kazon and Seska storylines. Harrison called them "sub-standard Klingon substitutes" and praised the series' decision to replace them with the Borg. The Kazon, along with Seska, were placed at number two on

12780-424: The episode as "the moment Trek died intellectually", though Trudel disagreed with this assessment as "fairly dramatic". In 1996, The New York Times ' Jon Pareles offered a less critical assessment of Star Trek ' s development of alien species, describing them as enacting "exaggerated human tendencies". Pareles identified the Kazon's rebellion against their previous captors in particular as comparable to

12922-448: The event a scanner fails the other three will take over, and that he has never lost anyone having been a transporter operator for over 20 years. In " Rascals ", four adult Enterprise crew members were beamed off a shuttle and rematerialized as children still in their adult-sized clothing. The incoming "matter stream" had a commensurate drop in mass; the operator had initially thought the reduction in mass meant "we may have lost one". In

13064-448: The exception of Kirk in the episode " That Which Survives ". However, by TNG , characters can move within the confines of the transporter beam while being transported, although this is rarely shown. Persons being transported are at least sometimes able to perceive the functioning of the transporter while they are in transit. In the TOS episode " The Doomsday Machine ", the Enterprise transporter malfunctions while transporting Scotty from

13206-499: The existence of portable transporters, but these are never seen. The Next Generation episode " Timescape " features emergency transporter armbands, although these may have served only to activate a remote transporter. To confuse things more, Star Trek: Nemesis featured the prototype "emergency transport unit". Tom Paris uses a portable transporter in the Voyager episode " Non Sequitur ". For special effects reasons, in TOS , people generally appear immobilized during transport, with

13348-411: The expense of creating weak spots in the vessel's defensive field. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Vice Admiral James T. Kirk and Lieutenant Saavik carry on a conversation during rematerialization. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , Dr. Gillian Taylor jumps into Kirk's transporter beam during dematerialization, and rematerializes without any apparent ill effects. This is probably due to

13490-468: The first episode, he hired additional make-up artists and mold makers to assist with getting all the actors into costume. According to supervising producer David Livingston , the process of applying the Kazon make-up took multiple hours. Since a majority of the scenes involving the Kazon were filmed at the El Mirage Lake , Livingston and the filming crew were assigned to help the actors feel comfortable in

13632-457: The frequent incorporation of the species would strain the credibility of the storylines as the crew would have to eventually leave Kazon-controlled space on their journey home. He also believed that the Kazon were failures as antagonists, perceiving them to be insufficiently imposing for the main characters and fans to take them seriously. Ethan Phillips agreed with Russ, suggesting that the Kazon's presence should be reduced. Robert Picardo joked that

13774-473: The growing focus on the Kazon would serve as the solution. Piller believed the alien species accentuated the show's futuristic storylines, explaining: "There are a lot of people who don't consider a lot [of the season's episodes to be] science fiction." He followed this up by saying: "But certainly you can make a case that facing the Kazon in battle is futurist storytelling." Taylor viewed the second season as focused on "character-driven, introspective" stories, with

13916-408: The heavy make-up and prosthetics despite the high temperatures. Piller originally envisioned only casting actors between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five to simulate the connection between the Kazon and contemporary street gangs. He said that he wanted the casting choices to convey the alien species as "young, angry people who never lived old enough to have the kind of experience and perspective on

14058-603: The hero and heroine also frequently draw on these sources as well. This trope is also very important in the setting of many of these fantasies. Writers from the beginnings of the fantasy genre, such as William Morris in The Well at the World's End and Lord Dunsany in The King of Elfland's Daughter , set their tales in fantasy worlds clearly derived from medieval sources; though often filtered through later views . J. R. R. Tolkien set

14200-426: The meeting as a trap to assassinate the Kazon leaders. Janeway stops the massacre from occurring, but relations between Voyager , the Kazon, and the other alien species in the Delta Quadrant are further strained as a result. The Kazon make minor appearances in " Threshold ", " Dreadnought ", and " Lifesigns " as Seska helps them construct a plan to commandeer Voyager . In " Investigations ", Neelix notices that one of

14342-490: The only interesting aspect of the species was their hairstyle, while Robert Beltran pointed to their lack of intelligence as the main factor preventing them from becoming strong villains. Kate Mulgrew suggested that the show incorporate a new and stronger antagonist, saying: "We need [...] to encounter enemies of such ferocity, enemies who in fact are quite lethal and frightening. Enemies that you would watch and say, 'Oh, boy, how are they going to get out of this one?' I don't think

14484-411: The point of origin and/or the intended target site is moving at warp velocities. In the TNG episode " The Schizoid Man ", a "long-range" or "near-warp" transport was required as a transporter beam cannot penetrate a warp field. (In the 2009 Star Trek film Kirk and Scotty beam aboard while the Enterprise is traveling at warp, however, the movie takes place in an alternate continuity, thus not affecting

14626-474: The political situations in Somalia or Rwanda at the time of his writing. Fictional race A fantasy trope is a specific type of literary trope (recurring theme) that occurs in fantasy fiction . Worldbuilding , plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore . J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium (and in particular, The Lord of

14768-727: The power dynamics in the Delta Quadrant and thus violating the Prime Directive . Over subsequent episodes, the crew of the Maquis cell led by Chakotay ( Robert Beltran )—which had been pursued by Voyager into the Delta Quadrant—merge with Voyager 's Starfleet crew. In " State of Flux ", the Voyager crew encounter Jal Culluh ( Anthony De Longis ), a Kazon sect leader and the series' primary Kazon character. In this episode, Voyager 's ensign Seska ( Martha Hackett )

14910-491: The relatively small number of Kazon who appeared in episodes outside of the pilot to the numerous aliens featured throughout Deep Space Nine . The Kazon's design was modified during the filming of the first season. For example, for the second episode in which the Kazon appeared—"State of Flux"—Westmore removed the ear prosthetics, which had been created originally by hair designer Josée Normand to look like pigs' ears. The pig-ear prosthetics proved to be too cumbersome and heavy for

15052-418: The resources taken from the Trabe, the Kazon possess energy weapons, primarily phasers and tractor beams , and deflector shields . They are unaware of transporters and replicators until their first meeting with Voyager ' s crew. The Kazon are primarily shown using one of two types of spacecraft: raider ships and carrier vessels. The raider ships are considered minor threats by Voyager ' s crew, but

15194-521: The same as the number you began with. There is no possible way to replicate people in this manner. On the other hand, if only the information were beamed up, one could imagine combining it with atoms that might be stored aboard a starship and making as many copies as wanted of an individual." Aside from external influences causing disruptions in the normal operations of transporters, the technology itself has been known to fail on occasion, causing serious injury or usually death to those being transported. This

15336-568: The scenes with the Kazon" and "helped to define the Kazon for us". Nonetheless, Hackett interpreted Seska as having little loyalty to the Kazon, saying: "I don't think she gives a hoot about [them]." When discussing his hopes for fan reaction to the second season's emphasis on the Kazon, Piller said: "I'll be curious to know what the audience's perception is, if our investing in the Kazon this season worked." In response to fans' concerns that Voyager did not incorporate as many science fiction elements as previous Star Trek installments, he believed that

15478-489: The series following the season three premiere as the co-creators felt that their continued presence would strain the credibility of Voyager ' s journey home. Critical response to the Kazon was generally negative. Some reviewers praised their ability to capture Voyager and maroon its crew on a desolate planet, while others felt they were poorly developed copies of Klingons and that the second season focused too much on them. The Kazon were included on several lists ranking

15620-409: The series have "the feeling that we're traveling in a big circle". Despite the decision to eliminate the Kazon from future episodes, the writing team was uncertain if the season two finale and season three premiere would focus on them. Piller said that it was suggested that the episodes could serve as an introduction to a new alien species, but he supported the possibility that they act as a farewell to

15762-428: The series premiere, with one fan commenting: "They look like they're all having a bad hair day." When Anthony De Longis first saw the headdress worn as a part of Culluh's costume, he joked that: "Culluh must be the leader because he has the biggest head of hair." Westmore said that he faced several challenges involving the make-up and masks during the filming of "Caretaker". Because of the large number of Kazon present in

15904-399: The ship's crew is sending coded messages to the Kazon, and he uses his morning news program to track down the traitor. Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ) helps Neelix by exhibiting poor and aggressive behavior to set up an appearance that he is willing to sabotage Voyager to elicit contact from the traitor. Neelix discovers that Michael Jonas ( Raphael Sbarge ), a Voyager crewmember who

16046-602: The ship; the device was often operated by chief engineer Montgomery Scott during Star Trek: The Original Series . However, it is a slight misquote that was never uttered verbatim on the show. The closest actual phrase, "Scotty, beam me up", was spoken by Admiral Kirk in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). On the special edition DVD of Star Trek IV , the text commentary provided by Michael and Denise Okuda (co-authors of The Star Trek Encyclopedia (1994) and The Star Trek Chronology: The History of

16188-457: The show's cast members, who did not find them to be strong villains or compelling additions to the narrative. The Kazon appear as the principal antagonists for Star Trek: Voyager ' s first two seasons . Introduced in the series premiere " Caretaker ", they are shown as oppressors of the Ocampa , another alien race. The Ocampa Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) is first seen as a slave to the Kazon, and

16330-453: The show's co-creators as an apt metaphor for the fears and anxieties surrounding cities and gangs during the seasons' broadcast. The Kazon were developed as one of three new alien species that could be expanded as recurring antagonists. The other two were the Vidiians and the Sikarians . Michael Westmore was the primary make-up supervisor involved in the creation of the Kazon's appearance. Piller originally planned to cast young actors between

16472-605: The sliders were replaced with three touch-sensitive light-up bars, which according to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual were designed as a homage to the original sliders. Creator Gene Roddenberry 's original plan did not include transporters, instead calling for characters to land the starship itself. However, this would have required unfeasible and unaffordable (for the 1960s) sets and model filming, as well as episode running time spent while landing, taking off, etc. The shuttlecraft

16614-507: The species are also separated into various sections. While the official Star Trek website lists the Kazon as having eighteen sects, the episode "Initiations" represents the number of sects as highly unstable and changing every day. Only eight groups were named in Star Trek: Voyager : Kazon-Halik, Kazon-Ogla, Kazon-Oglamar, Kazon-Relora, Kazon-Nistrim, Kazon-Mostral, Kazon-Hobii, and Kazon-Pommar. The sects are portrayed as "blood enemies" who rarely make attempts at diplomacy or forge alliances. At

16756-406: The surface of a planet without the need for expensive and time-consuming special effects to depict the starship or another craft physically landing. Malfunctioning transporters are also often used as a plot device to set up a variety of science fiction premises. The transporter has become a hallmark of the Star Trek franchise; the famous catchphrase " Beam me up, Scotty " (a misquote ) refers to

16898-401: The technology into the Kazon ships and use it to unite all Kazon sects with him as leader. Chakotay goes on a solo mission aiming to recover the technology, but is captured and tortured by Seska and Culluh. The Voyager crew rescue Chakotay, only to discover that Seska had extracted his DNA and used it to impregnate herself. Following this turn of events, Janeway attempts to form an alliance with

17040-499: The time of The Next Generation , transporter technology has advanced considerably, meaning that accidents are now remote, if not near impossible. In the episode " Realm of Fear ", Geordi La Forge states that there have been no more than two or three transporter accidents in the preceding ten years. Reference is also made to the advancement of transporter technology in the same episode, where Chief O'Brien states that each individual transporter pad has four redundant scanners whereby in

17182-576: The time that Voyager passed through Kazon-occupied space, the Kazon-Ogla and Kazon-Relora were the most powerful of the eight, controlling the most members and ships. A Kazon who does not belong to a sect is viewed as a "Goven" or an outcast. The title "first maje" is used to reference the leader of a sect. The political structure of the Kazon is built around "political killings inside the sects as well as between sects", with peace perceived as an impossible construct. During Star Trek: Voyager , Kazon society

17324-461: The transporter had predecessors in teleportation devices in other science fiction stories, such as the 1939 serial Buck Rogers . The name and similar concepts have made their way to later science fiction scenarios, in literature (such as the Thousand Cultures series ), games ( SimEarth ), etc. The transporter was originally conceived as a device to convey characters from a starship to

17466-485: The transporter, stored, then shunted to their destination. In addition, the six circles on the platform are generally used as targets for the subjects to stand on, but they do not appear to represent any limitation of the hardware to six or fewer people. People have been transported carrying others, in a coffin style transport, as well as animals, hay, and various inanimate objects. Dialogue in Deep Space Nine indicates

17608-441: The transporter, which appear to involve only a transport of information, for example the way in which it splits Kirk into two versions in the episode " The Enemy Within " or the way in which Riker is similarly split in the episode " Second Chances ". Krauss elaborates that: "If the transporter carries both the matter stream and the information signal, this splitting phenomenon is impossible. The number of atoms you end up with has to be

17750-631: The transporters' maximum range, during that time period in Star Trek history, is actually around 30,000 kilometers. Transporter operations have been disrupted or prevented by dense metals ( TNG : " Contagion "), solar flares ( TNG : " Symbiosis "), and other forms of radiation, including electromagnetic ( TNG : " The Enemy "; TNG : " Power Play ") and nucleonic ( TNG : " Schisms "), and affected by ion storms ( TOS : " Mirror, Mirror "). Transporting, in progress, has also been stopped by telekinetic powers ( TNG : " Skin of Evil ") and by brute strength ( TNG : " The Hunted "). The TNG episode " Bloodlines " features

17892-563: The type even more clearly for high fantasy , which is normally based in such a "pseudo-medieval" setting. Other fantasy writers have emulated him, and role-playing and computer games have also taken up this tradition. The full width of the medieval era is seldom drawn upon. Governments, for instance, tend to be feudalistic, corrupt empires despite the greater variety of the actual Middle Ages. Settings also tend to be medieval in economy, with many fantasy worlds disproportionately pastoral . These settings are typical of epic fantasy and, to

18034-532: The usage of the term in this context, in his legendarium (and particularly in The Lord of the Rings ), and the use of races in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games further spread the label. Many fantasy and science fiction settings now use the terms race and species interchangeably, such as the World of Warcraft computer game. In role-playing games, "race" typically refers to any sapient species usable as

18176-498: The use of the transporter on Star Trek: The Original Series , operated by the character Montgomery Scott , presumably at the request of Captain Kirk . Transporter technology has been used in many subsequent Star Trek series. On Star Trek: The Original Series , the transporter was portrayed as a platform on which characters stand before being engulfed by a beam of light and transported to their destination. The transporter's special effect

18318-478: The vein of Sauron. The Dark Lord is usually seen as unmarried, though there has been the occasion when one has attempted to claim a bride. Quests, an immemorial trope in literature, are common in fantasy. They can be anything from a quest to locate the MacGuffins necessary to save the world, to an internal quest of self-realization . In fantasy, magic often has an overwhelming presence, although its precise nature

18460-421: The world that, say, the Klingons and Romulans might have". He wanted to emphasize that the Kazon were "much more emotional, short fused, and therefore had fewer expectations" through the actors' performances. The roles, however, were filled by actors outside this age range, with Piller explaining that the decision was reached on the grounds that the "older actors gave more polished performances". He later regretted

18602-467: The worst villains in Star Trek history, and were cited as an example of the racist implications in the franchise's alien species. During her re-watching of the series, TrekToday 's Michelle Erica Green provided extensive criticism of the alien species, questioning the decision to feature them as the primary antagonists instead of the Vidiians, and Captain Kathryn Janeway 's refusal to share technology with them. The Kazon were also poorly received by

18744-400: Was available, and despite the efforts of Kirk and Scotty , the system failed and both subjects vanished from the transporter pad and back to Starfleet, where both subjects died from radiation and disfiguration. Kirk, visibly shaken by what he had witnessed asked, "Starfleet, do you have them?", to which the response was made " Enterprise , what we got back didn't live long, fortunately". By

18886-461: Was demonstrated in Star Trek's 1979 film debut, Star Trek: The Motion Picture when a malfunction in the transporter sensor circuits resulted in insufficient signal being present at the Enterprise end to successfully rematerialize the two subjects, and Starfleet was unable to pull them back to where they had dematerialized from. The transporter system attempted to rematerialize what little signal

19028-408: Was formerly part of Chakotay's Marquis cell, is feeding Seska information regarding warp technology; Jonas is then killed in a fight with Neelix. The two-part episode " Basics " serves as the final major storyline for the Kazon in the series. Seska sends Voyager a distress call following the birth of her child and Culluh's discovery that he was not the father. Chakotay convinces Janeway and the rest of

19170-412: Was happening in our cities and recognizing a source of danger and social unrest". Piller further described the premise for the Kazon as rooted in gang violence and warfare by clarifying: "Our intention was to create a sort of disorganized anarchy, them-against-them as much as them-against-us." In a meeting dated August 17, 1993, Taylor wrote a story outline for the pilot episode "Caretaker" and established

19312-466: Was her "intention to leave them behind and to find new and I hope more interesting aliens". Even though Piller understood Taylor's disappointment with the Kazon, he felt that "it was important and valuable to create this adversary". Berman agreed with Taylor's assessment of the Kazon and noted that they would be removed in the beginning of the third season. He also admitted that the writers made several mistakes and introduced inconsistencies while developing

19454-435: Was implicitly racist, writing that the species was shown as embodying negative stereotypes. Niculescu and Nemtzeanu followed this up by saying that the Kazon were written only to be "criminals and savages" and seen as "primitive". In his 2016 The Politics of Star Trek , the political scientist George A. Gonzalez agreed the skin tone and hair style designed for the Kazon as carrying explicit racial connotations, and felt that it

19596-455: Was made more apparent during their conflict with the lighter-skinned Ocampa. Zach of Bitch Media placed the Kazon as one example of Star Trek ' s uneven treatment of race. He compared the Kazon to the Klingons and Ferengi, writing that "aliens-of-color [are] used as proxies to represent the worst aspects of human behavior". The Kazon have been interpreted as a sociopolitical commentary on developing countries . George A. Gonzalez presented

19738-433: Was originally created by turning a slow-motion camera upside down and photographing some backlit shiny grains of aluminium powder that were dropped between the camera and a black background; later series would eventually use computer animation for the effect. On The Original Series , the transporter operator would activate the device by moving three sliders on a console. In the sequel series Star Trek: The Next Generation ,

19880-423: Was praised by television commentators. Marc Buxton, of Den of Geek! , included the Kazon on his list of the 50 best alien life forms in the Star Trek universe, for their "advanced technology and a back-stabbing bloodthirst" and success in trapping the Voyager crew on a hostile planet. Similarly, Tor.com 's Ryan Britt ranked the moment when the Kazon captured the ship as one of the seven most shocking instances in

20022-406: Was represented as patriarchal as males reacted negatively to orders from women. Kazon women are never shown on the series, and are only referenced through dialogue by the Kazon men. Young Kazon males are raised as warriors, undergoing a rite of passage ritual to earn their adult names. The honorific title "Jal" given to a young Kazon male marks their transition into adulthood; it is given either when

20164-414: Was the next idea, but when filming began, the full-sized shooting model was not ready. Transporters were devised as a less expensive alternative, achieved by a simple fade-out/fade-in of the subject. Transporters first appear in the original pilot episode " The Cage ". Many episodes of Star Trek series feature transporter accidents as a plot device : a malfunctioning transporter fails to rematerialize

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