Isso é explicitamente abordado no script do programa original . Os guardas geralmente não guardam nada. Eles obviamente tiraram as armas de um armário em algum lugar com o propósito de proteger Worf.
Scene 4 : ANGLE - WORF
He is sitting alone on a BENCH to one side of the compound, surveying it. He looks around at the activity in the compound -- a young man is gardening; a group of young people run and play a game; three men play a game with dice.
People go about their business, occasionally casting surreptitious glances at the stranger in their midst. Every time Worf's eye meets someone else's, they seem to turn away and return to what they were doing.
This place is more a village than a prison -- flowers are planted near the well tended barracks; the wall that once served to pen prisoners is still there, but the gate is left open and people come and go at will.
While there are several generations of Klingons in the camp, the only Romulans are the middle-aged guards who have been at this post for the last twenty years. Worf is the first person they've had to guard in a long time and they have to remind themselves to keep an eye on him and not be distracted by the goings on in the camp.