Oh, goodie. When faced with what might be the vulnerable leaders of a hostile species we know little about, the morality of Fitzgerald's choice might not be the ideal Federation stance, but I'm so very glad that sometimes people can look at someone bad, come to the conclusion that they are bad, realize that it's us if it comes to them or us, and calls them out on their BS and maybe doesn't take the high ground, but the not-as-low ground.
Sometimes baddies just need to go boom.
Also, I'm imagining Seven with the Vyntadi resistance, and when help finally arrives, she's silently bemoaning the inefficiency of Voyager's crew and how long it took them to get there in the first place, no doubt wasting their times on many things that fall under the All-Encompassing label of "Irrelevant."
Part of it was me wanting to put Fitzgerald in a position very much like the one he’d harshly judged Cavit for during Year of Hell—what do you do when things are at their absolute worst and facing down something horrible—but also it’s what you said: some of these enemies of the Federation are, y’know, evil.
These people hunt intelligent humanoids. There’s no grey-area there. There’s no "Well, we have to respect their culture" (though a traditional Trek story might try to write that in there). Nope. They bad.
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