Kazon

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Caption=First Maje Culluh, a member of the Kazon-Nistrim
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Borgspecies=329In the "Star Trek" fictional universe, the Kazon are a Delta Quadrant race. The Kazon are technologically inferior to the United Federation of Planets as it exists in the twenty-fourth century. The USS "Voyager" makes the Federation's first contact with the Kazon during its return voyage through the Delta Quadrant.

Physically, the Kazon are a humanoid species that has at least two racial variants, the most common race with copper-colored skin and a minority race with brown skin. The foreheads of all Kazon feature distinctive ridges and their black or brown hair grows in large chunks rather than individual strands.

The Kazon were enslaved by the more advanced Trabe until the Kazon united together and overthrew them, stealing their ships, technology and territory. After uniting to overthrow the Trabe, they divided into different sects and have since been in constant conflict with one another. Each sect's ruler takes the title First Maje.

Kazon society is sometimes referred to as the 'Kazon Collective', although this rarely happens in practice as most of the sects are constantly fighting each other. The major sects are:
*Halik
*Ogla
*Oglamar
*Relora
*Nistrim
*Mostral
*Hobii (pronounced hoe-by)
*Pommar
*Sari

The two most powerful sects are the Ogla and Relora, who possess most of the Kazons' manpower and ships. The Nistrim were once a powerful and influential sect, however their power has diminished — by 2372, they possessed fewer than six raider vessels. "Voyager" never encounters the Sari sect.

The Kazon are a large part of the "" series during the show's first two seasons. At the end of the second season, the ship is briefly captured by the Kazon-Nistrim. However, Tom Paris and a number of Talaxian vessels recapture the ship. The Kazon abandon Voyager and have no further encounters with them. At the beginning of the fourth season, Kes propels "Voyager" over 9,500 light-years toward the Alpha Quadrant, moving them far outside the Kazons' realm.

Neelix once mentions the existence of the Kazon to Seven of Nine. She recalls that the Borg once came across a Kazon colony, but decided that it was not worth the time or trouble to assimilate the colony as this would detract from the goal of achieving perfection. The Borg referred to the Kazon as Species 329.

Their ships range from huge battleships (bigger than the Dominion Battlecruiser and Romulan D'Deridex class warbird) to small shuttles. Kazon technology and spacecraft were taken from the Trabe. Though this technology is primitive compared to that possessed by "Voyager", the sheer number of ships and the number of weapons (and hence fire-power) of the largest ships make them a serious threat to a small, solitary Federation ship.

The Kazon do not possess replicator or transporter technology, as shown in the two-part "Voyager" episode "Basics." Without a transporter, they took the crew of "Voyager" by surprise by boarding the ship through the loading docks.

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