Indeed. But as Ron Moore has often said, Star Trek is not reality, it’s heightened reality.
then it isn’t true hospitality, if it’s only about gratifying the hosts
He totally banged her though
oh Seska you evil lying person.
Vulcans have no ethics.
It’s only logical.
Shhh let Janeway and Tuvok have their convo later.
B’Elanna laying out the science
Whoops techfail
“We didn’t anticipate antineutrinos.”
Nobody ever expects antineutrinos!
/Python
“I has something to do with being able to live with yourself”
Yeah not like we’re setting Seska up or anything…
But it is a neat way to resolve it, to know that the technology wouldn’t work with any Federation stuff
Neither of them broke any Federation laws. Copies of the stories cost them nothing.
This is an ethical breach, at best, not a crime.
Interesting.
The scripting of this episode was influenced by the fact that the Sikarians were originally intended to become one of three recurring, antagonistic alien races in Star Trek: Voyager’s first season (the other two being the Kazons and Vidiians).
I wonder why they didn’t recur.
“My logic was not in error. But I was.” 
According to Tim Russ, the main point that he wished to clarify was that, although the writers wanted Tuvok’s motivation for betraying Janeway to be that it was the only logical thing left for him to do, logic – according to Russ’ beliefs – is only a way to do things, not a reason for doing them. Instead, Russ wanted to make clear that the reason Tuvok chose to act against his captain (sacrificing his commission) was to essentially save her from a shipboard mutiny that seemed otherwise probable.
I like this interaction.
“My logic was not in error…but I was.”
- Tuvok to Captain Janeway
“You can use logic to justify anything. That’s its power and its flaw.”
- Janeway to TuvokThey would have been much more compelling than the Kazon… imo
What could be more compelling than an alien race defined by bad hairstyles? :rolleyes:
One defined by unfortunate jackets 
At least Vidiians had a disease to blame for their fashion shortcomings.