I have’t seen “Caretaker” in a good minute, but they still needed to rescue Kim and Torres from the same planet. So, plot-wise, there probably still would have been an encounter with the Kazon, and they still would have gone back to the Array to see if it could get them home (and the Kazon would probably have still investigated that).

I would guess, anyway. Like I said, memory’s a bit hazy as I haven’t seen that episode in a while.