Been awhile since I’ve seen the episodes so don’t know if they covered it.
They may be rampant organ thieves but they have standards!
That said, what evidence do we have they didn’t? With the phage rampaging through a full planetary population they could have very very horrifically turned on each other and every other living thing on the planet before hunting the stars
Pretty sure they’d have more luck with other civilizations to get their livestock than hunt them.
You’d think they’d be looking for non-organic options. Go full cybernetic, shed their mortal, diseased bodies entirely.
Or do cloning. If their own DNA is too messed up by the Phage then pick a non-Vidiian species that’s particularly compatible and start running off copies to harvest. Apparently killing clones is fine by the Federation, paragons of moral virtue that they are, so this should be an acceptable solution.
And yet I’m DS9 Bashir says that murdering a clone of yourself is still murder. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But maybe that was Bayorian law.
If I had to make it make sense, Riker killing those clones might have been different because the clones weren’t “awakened” yet.
That works. So it’s abortion not murder.
perhaps they already did this until they all went extinct.
remember, the Vidiians had been combating the Phage for millennia.
You could trade for new ones from other worlds. I think other worlds wold be happy to grow some pigs for them, which they can then set up their own breeding program.
in thousands of years, I’m sure they could have tried a lot of things.
a lot of stuff in that show made no sense. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
like instead of murdering Tuvix, why didn’t they make a Riker-style duplicate first so they could keep a Tuvix copy and split the other back into Tuvok and Neelix?
Which Tuvix do you murder then?
Both! No wait…
The best kind of trolley problem
Mumble mumble “balance” something mumble? :-P
hey, don’t get me started on the whole, “why didn’t Tuvok just beam over those tricobalt devices to the Caretaker’s array with timers on them to go off a millisecond after using it to send the Voyager back home? So what if we didn’t get a show? at least we would have gotten a satisfying ending, which we certainly never fucking got. Oh, you just dump the ship in the AQ, and what, THE END??‽!!! THAT’S IT??‽!!! THANK YOU AND GOODBYE FOREVER??‽!!
WE HAD TO WAIT THIRTY FUCKING YEARS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BORG!!!
suck my ass, Brannon Braga
edit: and while I’m at it, on behalf of every woman and LGBTQ+ person in (and fan of) Trek since 1987, suck my ass Rick Berman
edit 2: thank you Terry Matalis, btw, for TNG S08 and cleaning up the mess that was the VOY finale’s loose ends.
And Jason Alexander solved it in like 1 season
Art Vandalay knows how to wheel and deal
Why could they not do in hundreds of years what the EMH did in a few days? 🤷🏻♂️
Why could they have not simply taken Voyager’s offer for a cure and instead attacked them?
The concept was cool; their execution has got to be one of the weakest of the entire franchise.
Something I would have liked to have seen is Vidiians being assimilated by choice on the basis that being part of the Collective had to be better than suffering from the Phage. Instead of them just being enemies, they should have really leaned into how horrible it would be to live with that plague hanging over their heads. It’s also implied in an episode or two that there are uninfected populations somewhere, probably under quarantine, which would have been interesting to explore.
Why could they not do in hundreds of years what the EMH did in a few days? 🤷🏻♂️
…And the combined total of thousand of years of scientific advances of myriad species. The Federation’s strength is in it’s diversity. No doubt the Vidiians made enemies of more than one species that were able to help them, too.
I’d still rate the warp 10+ as the worst of all star Trek. Voyager was cool but there’s so many plot holes everywhere.
