Beasley's ship fires warning shots at "Voyager" to keep them on course to the Assembly, and then he reveals why he had chosen the best and the brightest the world had to offer to crew "Voyager". He intended "Voyager" not to be an exploratory vessel but a colony ship. Joining the "Voyager" to the O.T.Z. Assembly would give Beasley the Bowman Drive and Priscilla. This would enable him to choose whom else would get to be part of his new Utopia, while leaving the rest of humanity to rot back on Earth.