We Will Never Forget.
By: Kate Powell
Voyager and the rest of our motley
caravan have been traveling through a part
of space where gateways that lead to any
number of unknown parts of the universe
have been popping up and either sucking
in or spitting out ships. We the crew of
Voyager, have taken it upon our selves to,
once again, help complete strangers. But
we are, after all, in a strange situation.
70,000 light years from home and the
leader of a caravan that brings enemy and
enemy together to reach a common goal, to
try and get home in one piece. Now more
then ever, we need to pull together, and
find a way to get these people and
ourselves back home.
Weve already lost several of those who
were in our caravan in the beginning. In
one of the most tragic of circumstances, we
lost the Kuluuk. Captain Janeway asked
me to write this article to stress the
importance of the tragic details
surrounding the death of those harmless,
little creatures.
Several days ago we encountered a
nebula that was not unlike the Mutara
Nebula back home in the Alpha Quadrant.
In order to get past it, we would have to go
through it. But, of course, there were two
major problems. One was that there
were ships in the caravan that, due to the
strange new power drain that all our ships
had seemed to be experiencing, they
couldnt even start up their thrusters much
less their impulse engines. The second was
that this nebula was so dense sensors
wouldnt go past more then a few thousand
meters, and shields wouldnt function
inside the nebula either. So essentially we
were flying blind, and practically
defenseless, but we figured out ways to
overcome these obstacles. As for the ships
with the power drains, we had other ships
tractor them through, and as for the
sensors, we put buoys every 15 kilometers
to act as road signs.
Now, of course, we were all afraid of
what might have been in there, or what
might have been waiting for us on the
other side, but no one was as afraid as the
Kuluuk. The Kuluuk were a kind and very
timid species, but what might not be
known is that the Kuluuks physiology is
so fragile that they quite literally could die
of fright. It seems almost unimaginable,
that all a person had to do to kill a species
that timid, is to go running through the
corridors screaming. But it wasnt
unimaginable to the person that killed
them. In fact, according to the evidence,
thats exactly what they did.
After the Kuluuk didnt follow every
one else out of the nebula and had been
two hours overdue. Captain Janeway sent
Tom Paris and Harry Kim to find them.
And find them they did. Tom transported
over and found the Captain with his neck
broken and every one of the other Kuluuk
dead of a cardiac arrest due to severe
fright. After we had towed the Eru, with
her dead crew, out of the nebula, Tuvok
began a thorough investigation of the
murder of this gentle species. Then both he
and Commander Chakotay made a
disturbing discovery. They found only 246
bodies including the captains, but the
ships records said that there were 247
Kuluuk aboard. So that led Tuvok and
Chakotay to wondering. This led them to
more searching. That searching eventually,
lead them to the discovery of the 247th
member of the crew. Tuvok found it in a
ceiling storage compartment. And the most
appalling thing about the missing Kuluuk
is that he didnt die of fright. Oh, no
Voyager. This poor creature had its bones
and organs all removed. And we all know
of only one species that would do a thing
like that. The Hirogen. After all, they are
the only species in this caravan that are
hunters, and collect things of that nature as
trophies of their hunts. But why would the
Hirogen do such a thing? What was their
motive? And why did they hide the body?
They are a proud people that flaunt the
trophies of their hunts for the entire galaxy
to see. No the murder of the Kuluuk didnt
seem like something they would do at all.
Tuvok also found something else that was
surprising. The Kuluuks food supply and
been completely depleted. And according
to Commander Chakotay, they were so
afraid of running out of food, that despite
their embarrassment they would ask for
assistance.
Right now youre probably asking.
Well, if it wasnt the Hirogen, then who
was it? Well first lets re-examine the
evidence. First we have a dead Kuluuk
crew with one missing. Then we find the
missing body de-boned in a storage
compartment. And we know that it
couldnt be the Hirogen, because trying to
hide the fact the Kuluuk had been
murdered is the way of a coward not a
hunter. Lastly the food supply on the
Kuluuk ship was completely gone. So, who
could it be? Well the way Captain Janeway
saw it, is that one of two things could have
happened. One, the Kuluuk could have
veered off course in the nebula, and
someone could then have transported over,
killed them, and then helped themselves to
the food supplies. Or the killer was the one
who needed the help and they just killed
the Kuluuk and then stole the Kuluuks
supply of food. So again youre asking.
Who is the killer? Well, we can narrow
down the list of suspects to the seventeen
species that were on the ship for the
exchange program that Neelix came up
with. So with that in mind Captain
Janeway, Tuvok, Chakotay, and Seven of
Nine began the arduous investigation of
the fifteen species, not including the
Hirogen and those from Voyager, that were
on the Kuluuk vessel for the exchange
program. After about four days we found
the murderer, and it turned out to be non
other then the leader of the Todanians,
Sinimar Arkathi. Unfortunately he got
away, by flying directly into a gateway. All
we can do now is hope and pray that he
will never do such a thing to anyone else
ever again.
And with that I will leave you with one
more thought, Voyager. If we remember
nothing else of this journey we are on, I
hope that we will all remember the horrible
death of the Kuluuk. For if we do not carry
on the memory and the story of the Eru
and her crew, then the death of the Kuluuk
will have been for nothing.
We, the crew of Voyager, do here by
swear an oath to never forget what has
happened to the Kuluuk on their journey
home.