Is Gul Evek still alive we last saw him in Voyagers Caretaker. Was his ship the one we saw in Te Voyager Conspiracy.
Gul Evek
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I dunno*, but I always liked having Evek show up. I think Richard Poe really played Cardassian arrogance well, while still maintaining those precious shades of grey.
*The Vetar is disabled and falls back before the wave takes the Val Jean, so it could have been swept up too...but then where is it if it did? For what it's worth, A Stitch in Time has Evek still in the AQ.
*The Vetar is disabled and falls back before the wave takes the Val Jean, so it could have been swept up too...but then where is it if it did? For what it's worth, A Stitch in Time has Evek still in the AQ.
The ship Seven reports on is said to have been in the DQ days before Voyager, so unless the wave can cause time travel too, it was not the Vetar.
But how long was Chakotay’s ship in the Delta Quadrant before Voyager got there? If it was days, then it could very well have been Evek’s ship.
Oh yeah, good point!
If it was the Vetar then Evek still presumably ended up back in the AQ, 'cause didn't that Cardassian ship get returned? (That's if he survived both trips.)
Neelix and Seven only theorized that the Caretaker returned the ships. They had no proof. And the evidence seems to indicate the opposite: once the ships were pulled in to the Delta Quadrant, that’s where they stayed (re: ‘The Equinox.’)
Clearly, I should rewatch the episode.
The novels are ridiculously vague about this. Gul Evek shows up on post-war Cadassia in A Stitch in Time, with Garak commenting he had believed Evek to be killed years earlier fighting a Maquis ship in the Badlands. No further explanation is provided.
How the Caretaker beam works is a bit vague, too. Does it sample the entire Badlands at intervals, trawling in either every spacecraft it meets, or then every lump of matter that has biosigns within? Is the Badlands phenomenon in fact the result of these sweeps? Or is the beam of a narrower scope, being targeted at specific ships the Caretaker somehow spots from across the galaxy?
Both models have their problems. How can there be seemingly semi-permanent Maquis hideouts in the Badlands if the Caretaker sweeps the entire place, at ever-increasing frequency? If those hideouts don't get trawled in, Evek's disabled ship might not, either. But if the sweep is narrow and targeted, why not grab the Vetar? Surely she would be an attractive target, either instead of or then in addition to the Val Jean and her biologically totally distinct crew.
Timo Saloniemi
Both models have their problems. How can there be seemingly semi-permanent Maquis hideouts in the Badlands if the Caretaker sweeps the entire place, at ever-increasing frequency? If those hideouts don't get trawled in, Evek's disabled ship might not, either. But if the sweep is narrow and targeted, why not grab the Vetar? Surely she would be an attractive target, either instead of or then in addition to the Val Jean and her biologically totally distinct crew.
Timo Saloniemi
Assuming the Caretaker was capable of targeting spiecifc vessels, I doubt it would have bothered with the Vetar, because that ship was clearly severely damaged and would be of no use to the Caretaker.
That said, I would love to see Evek again. The novelverse portrays him as one of the most highly decorated officers in Cardassian history - indeed, a posting on his ship is considered the height of any Cardassian military career.
That said, I would love to see Evek again. The novelverse portrays him as one of the most highly decorated officers in Cardassian history - indeed, a posting on his ship is considered the height of any Cardassian military career.
Wouldn't damaged vessels be better than intact ones? That is, they wouldn't try and fly away or anything.
Having Evek bounce back from the Delta Quadrant would certainly add to his reputation, even if it remained at the level of dark rumors the whispering of which would be punishable by seven generations of death penalties...
Timo Saloniemi
Having Evek bounce back from the Delta Quadrant would certainly add to his reputation, even if it remained at the level of dark rumors the whispering of which would be punishable by seven generations of death penalties...
Timo Saloniemi
