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The Voyager Conspiracy

I just watched the Star Trek Voyager episode 'The Voyager Conspiracy'. While many of Seven's theories are considered speculative, some facts do seem fairly certain.

For those who have forgotten, Seven goes over sensor readings from the time that Voyager destroyed the Caretaker's array right back at the beginning of season one. She discovers some things that are worth examining, yet the show leaves them alone. For example, she finds no debris consistent with the reactor in the array in the sensor logs. She also seems to see (as do we as viewers) a tractor beam of some sort directed at the reactor. Seven speculates a cloaked ship uses a tractor beam to push the reactor into subspace and conceal it there. Then there are Tuvok's tri cobalt devices which are capable of opening this hole in subspace.

While very interesting facts on which her further theories were based, the facts are never really considered outside her crazy theories. Even so, they have some serious merit.

So I ask you - what was going on?
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I don't think we can take any of Seven's analysis in this situation seriously. It's possible that the debris was perfectly consistent with the reactor, but because of her implant's malfunction, she was essentially seeing what she wanted to see in the data. The tricobalt devices *could* open a hole in a subspace, but would it definitely happen? Additionally, even if we assume that one did open up, and even that it sucked the reactor into subspace, does that mean that anyone would be capable of retrieving it? Hardly. No one even knew it was there, after all. Voyager left the area immediately and there wasn't any other group capable; the Kazon certainly couldn't do it.

There's also the obvious fact that the female Caretaker had a similar station, which probably had the same reactor, and was much closer to the site where the graviton catapult was set up. The Ocampa left behind after her departure would have needed to start trading with others, since they no longer had the protection of a Caretaker. And of course, there's always the possibility that Tash genuinely developed the Tetryon reactor independently.