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They were successful weren't they? And isn't that all that matters? The Ferengi broke the culture, and Voyager did its best to correct the damage."Hard thing to do" is underselling it. This would be like if Jesus was actually an alien, and the whole crucifixion and fading into the heavens thing was a result of other aliens coming in to get rid of him and fake his disappearance in order to "fix the damage".
The Devore are clearly not nice people. And its unlikely the telepathic species they were interning could expect very much that wasn't bad. Also Janeway wasn't trying to overthrow their government or something but help them escape Devore space. Compassion and charity would be the byword here.There is a difference between charity in your daily life when it costs nothing but some of the time and money you have in abundance, and charity when you are unexpectedly dropped out in the middle of the siberian tundra or some other equally inhospitable environment with next to nothing. It is entirely reasonable to have a different set of expectations for what someone has a duty to do based on thier own circumstances.
Arguably, compassion would really only be a virtue in the DQ, precisely because doing so is hard and costly, but that's precisely why being compassionate is not considered a moral obligation.
They were framed or otherwise believed to have committed some sort of terrorist attack. Voyager intervened and caught the actual terrorists, brought it to the attention of the authorities, and Tom and Harry managed to get out pretty well on their own with Voyager's assistance. That was an issue of Voyager becoming enmeshed in local conflicts.It was. Tom and Harry were trading for whateverium on some planet, were accused of a crime, and got tossed in jail as a result.
Amusement aside, that could actually be quite valuable. Janeway got more than that. She got information as to the local politics, the location of nebulae and star systems, valuable resources, who was friendly and who wasn't, what anomalies to avoid, which ones to study and so on. Chakotay himself says they have got enough information to keep scientists busy for decades and janeway is a scientist at heart. And that intelligence was valuable, in the novelverse it was used to identify both the strength of the Borg collective, as well as very threats and enemies the federation would face.A cursory knowledge of what a part of a culture was like 200 years ago is probably more likely to be detrimental to any future exploration than anything else. Imagine if you were going to try and negotiate with the US, and all you had to go on was what someone saw in a weeklong business trip to new york in 1820, and half of it was an account of them trying to get their partner out of the NYPD drunk tank.