KAZON

"Kazon sects control this part of the quadrant. Some have food, some have ore, some have water. They all trade and they all kill other for it." Neelix to Voyager away team [Caretaker]

INTRODUCTION TO THE KAZON COLLECTIVE The Kazon Collective is a spacefaring humanoid civilisation native to the Delta Quadrant, but it says something about them that the Borg (who designated them Species 329) considered them unworthy of assimilation. The "Kazon Collective" is the formal name for the group of numerous Kazon sects [#1 and #2 Caretaker]. Kazon emblem (source: Encyclopaedia)

Males of the Kazon-Ogla sect [Caretaker]

Long ago, the Kazon were among the most culturally and technologically advanced people in the Delta Quadrant. This ended when the Kazon were conquered by the Trabe, who encouraged the various Kazon sects to fight among themselves in order to make them easier to control, although many members of the Trabe race were apparently unaware that this oppression was taking place [#30 Alliances]. In 2346 Jal Sankur united the Kazon people who rose up and overthrew the Trabe. The Kazon sects stole many of the Trabe's spacecraft, returning the Kazon to the status of a spacefaring society. [#27 Maneuvers].

Thereafter the Kazon persecuted the Trabe, hounding them from place to place and preventing their former oppressors from settling a new homeworld. Their hatred for the Trabe "uniforms" spilled over into a hatred for Voyager's crew, who wore uniforms as members of Starfleet and representing the United Federation of Planets.
Jal Razik, First Maje of the Kazon-Ogla, told Chakotay in 2372, [#21 Initiations]: "You may not think you're at war with us, Federation Commander Chakotay, but everything you are is a threat to us. The Kazon fought long and hard for their independence from uniforms like yours. Your uniforms, your laws, your technology, you are not welcome here."

In 2372, the Trabe, under leader Mabus, formed an alliance with USS Voyager, depicted in [#30 Alliances]. Mabus called a peace conference between the Kazon and the Trabe, but it was nothing more than Mabus' ploy to assassinate the Kazon first majes who attended. Voyager's crew foiled the plot, Janeway angrily ended the alliance with the Trabe, and the Kazon continued its long-term pursuit of revenge against the Trabe.

Kazon Predator class warships in action:

[Initiations]	In the right of the lefthand picture is a bullet-shaped smaller vessel (shown in the righthand picture) which the Kazon-Nistrim used to penetrate USS Voyager's hull [#27 Maneuvers]. starboard and ventral drawings of Kazon torpedo ship (pop-up)	[Investigations]
		Kazon phaser fire is blue. You need animated images enabled to see this animated screenshot

USS Voyager shows up the size of a Kazon raider ship [Basics]

Predator class warship Source: Encyclopaedia

Kazon raider:

the Kazon emblem is just visible - the pop-up drawing below can be examined to ascertain its precise location on the hull

drawing of Kazon ship (pop-up)

control panel on a Kazon-Nistrim warship [Maneuvers]

door entrance and corridor [Maneuvers]

[Maneuvers]

[Investigations]

Above 5 pictures: Interior of a Kazon warship.

[Maneuvers]

[Maneuvers]

Hand weapons.

Voyager and two Kazon ships - note the comparative size
[#11 State Of Flux]

view from the front window of a Voyager shuttlecraft under weapons fire from a Kazon ship
[#21 Initiations]

the Kazon ship is hit by phaser fire from the shuttlecraft (both ships are mentioned in the above screenshot description)
[#21 Initiations]

Kazon ship as seen through the front window of a Voyager shuttlecraft
Two very brightened views of Kazon ship so as to see detail (pop-ups):
(1) as above (2) Kazon ship tractors in the Voyager shuttlecraft
[#21 Initiations]