Why do the Voth want us dead? Because the Doctrine says so, because they hate mammals, because the Ministry of Elders claim the Sphere was built by their ancestors and because they don't know our plans with the Omega particle and assume we will use it against them.
Plus, following what happened with Voyager, our mere existence is a contradiction to the Doctrine and they don't tolerate anything contradicting it. And now we're beginning to recruit Voth in our ranks, so the Voth government is even less happy, to say the least.
Basically, it's a big misunderstanding and one side really doesn't want to hear any argument from the other side (who has a talent for encountering xenophobic races and pissing them off by accident), because they're religious bigots.
Well, unless the sphere's surface blocks their phase cloaking, they could just fly in from anywhere. Which does make them fighting us over one relatively insignificant portion of the sphere's interior rather pointless.
'We' in general don't contradict Doctrine. Unless by 'we' you mean humans. Yes, the Voth weren't exactly differentiating between humans and, say, Vulcans in the episode, but the only ones said to share genetic markers with the Voth were humans. And they don't 'hate' mammals. They just view mammals as inferior. If they hated mammals, the scientists from the episode would have never even listened to Chakotay. They'd have just killed him or lobotomized him or something.
So, yes. The idea of the Voth just happening to be in the same part of the sphere that the Jouret gate connects to is foolish. With the sheer size of the bloody thing, the Voth should be able to conduct their research without the joint task force even knowing they're there. Unless what we face is a spearhead of their efforts within the sphere and we're ultimately just causing a minor inconvenience to their expeditionary force, the whole thing is horribly contrived.
I wonder how they actually know that they are on the the edge of the Delta Quadrant and it corresponds to the Dyson Sphere from Season 8 Dev Blog #1. So until we get outside the Sphere, then there is no real confirmation since the Dyson Sphere computer systems could be lying. The Voth are an indicator of the sphere being in the Delta Quadrant, but not completely. The Voth have transwarp drives so they could go anywhere in a couple of months.
that's actually a very good question... now I'm starting to wonder....
If it's true that the Dyson sphere is at the edge of the Delta Quandrant then we can get a rough estimate of how far it's from Earth. WARNING: Math is incoming!!!
Earth is the intersection of the border between the Alpha and Beta quadrants. The Beta/Delta quandrants is 90 degrees spinward ("east") of the Alpha/Beta border. Assuming the Dyson sphere is approximate the same distance from the galaxy center as Earth (27,000 LY). The Dyson Sphere is 38183 LY from Earth.
If it's true that the Dyson sphere is at the edge of the Delta Quandrant then we can get a rough estimate of how far it's from Earth. WARNING: Math is incoming!!!
Earth is the interaction of the border between the Alpha and Beta quadrants. The Beta/Delta quandrants is 90 degrees spinward ("east") of the Alpha/Beta border. Assuming the Dyson sphere is approximate the same distance from the galaxy center as Earth (27,000 LY). The Dyson Sphere is 38183 LY from Earth.
They said in one Blog that the Sphere is 30,000 Light years from Earth and in another interview, it was revealed it's near the Beta-Delta Quadrant Border.
Ideology does not necessarily equal religion. Let's keep comments about religion out of the discussion, please.
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Plus, following what happened with Voyager, our mere existence is a contradiction to the Doctrine and they don't tolerate anything contradicting it. And now we're beginning to recruit Voth in our ranks, so the Voth government is even less happy, to say the least.
Basically, it's a big misunderstanding and one side really doesn't want to hear any argument from the other side (who has a talent for encountering xenophobic races and pissing them off by accident), because they're religious bigots.
'We' in general don't contradict Doctrine. Unless by 'we' you mean humans. Yes, the Voth weren't exactly differentiating between humans and, say, Vulcans in the episode, but the only ones said to share genetic markers with the Voth were humans. And they don't 'hate' mammals. They just view mammals as inferior. If they hated mammals, the scientists from the episode would have never even listened to Chakotay. They'd have just killed him or lobotomized him or something.
So, yes. The idea of the Voth just happening to be in the same part of the sphere that the Jouret gate connects to is foolish. With the sheer size of the bloody thing, the Voth should be able to conduct their research without the joint task force even knowing they're there. Unless what we face is a spearhead of their efforts within the sphere and we're ultimately just causing a minor inconvenience to their expeditionary force, the whole thing is horribly contrived.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action." -- Auric Goldfinger
If it's true that the Dyson sphere is at the edge of the Delta Quandrant then we can get a rough estimate of how far it's from Earth. WARNING: Math is incoming!!!
Earth is the intersection of the border between the Alpha and Beta quadrants. The Beta/Delta quandrants is 90 degrees spinward ("east") of the Alpha/Beta border. Assuming the Dyson sphere is approximate the same distance from the galaxy center as Earth (27,000 LY). The Dyson Sphere is 38183 LY from Earth.
They said in one Blog that the Sphere is 30,000 Light years from Earth and in another interview, it was revealed it's near the Beta-Delta Quadrant Border.
Are there Omega silos scattered around the whole Sphere?
Is there more than one space gate?
It's entirely possible that the answers to those questions are both no.
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Ideology does not necessarily equal religion. Let's keep comments about religion out of the discussion, please.
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