Kazon
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In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Kazon are a Delta Quadrant race. The Kazon are technologically inferior to the United Federation of Planets as it exists in the twenty-fourth century; their level of technological development is roughly equivalent to that of twenty-second century Earth as seen on Star Trek: Enterprise. The USS Voyager first encountered the Kazon during its return voyage from the Delta Quadrant.
The Kazon were once enslaved by a race called the Trabe, until the Kazon united together and overthrew them, stealing their ships, technology and territory. After uniting to overthrow the Trabe, they divided into different sects and have since been in constant conflict with one another.
The major Sects are:
- Halik
- Ogla
- Oglamar
- Relora
- Nistrim
- Mostral
- Hobii (pronounced hoe-by)
- Pommar
- Sari
The two most powerful sects are the Ogla and Relora, who possess most of the Kazons' manpower and ships. The Nistrim were once a powerful and influential sect however their power has diminished — by 2372 they possessed less than 6 raider vessels. The USS Voyager never encountered the Sari sect.
The Kazon were a large part of the Voyager series during the show's first two seasons. At the end of the second season, the ship was briefly captured by the Kazon Nistrim. However Tom Paris and a number of Talaxians were able to recapture the ship. The Kazon abandoned the ship, and had no further encounters with Voyager. At the beginning of the fourth season, Kes was able to propel Voyager over 10,000 light years towards home — which took them far outside the realm of the Kazon.
Neelix once mentioned the existence of the Kazon to Seven of Nine. She recalled that the Borg did come across a Kazon colony, but that the Borg decided that it wasn't worth the time or trouble to assimilate the colony, and ignored it instead.
Their ships consist of huge battleships (bigger than the Dominion Battlecruiser and Romulan D'Deridex class warbird) to small shuttles. All Kazon technology and spacecraft was stolen from the Trabe. Though this technology is extremely primitive compared to that possessed by the USS Voyager, the sheer number of ships, and the number of weapons (and hence firepower) of the largest ships, made them a serious threat to a single small federation cruiser.