[Voyager] "Equinox" Mission Log

"Equinox"

Production Number: 220 (STV526)
Original air date: 5/26/1999

Written by: Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky (Teleplay);
Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky (Story);
Directed by: David Livingston

Guest Stars:

John Savage as Captain Rudy Ransom
Titus Welliver as Maxwell Burke
Olivia Birkelund as Ensign Marla Gilmore
Rick Worthy as Crewman Noah Lessing
Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman
Steve Dennis as a crewmember
Majel Barrett as the Computer Voice

Shuttle Count:

unknown

Notes:

Season finale.
Early published information on this episode said that
The Yridians are Borg Species 6291. Despite being deemed "extinct" by both the Borg and the Federation, many Yridians have appeared in both TNG and DS9.
Deck 8, section 29 is Astrometrics.
B'Elanna's middle initial is L.
The Equinox encountered the Krowtonan Guard during their first week in the Delta Quadrant. He lost 39 people, approximately half his crew, in Krowtonan attacks. The Ponea and the Ankari were other Equinox contacts.

According to Captain Ransom, the two ships are still 35,000 light years from Earth, approximately half-way there.

   "Caretaker" ......  75,000 light years
   First Season .....  -1,000
   Second Season ....  -1,000
   Third Season .....  -1,000
   Fourth Season ....  -1,000
   Fifth Season .....  -1,000
                       70,000 light years of normal travel
   "Scorpion II" .... -10,000  (Kes)
   "Night" ..........  -2,000  (wormhole)
   "Timeless" ....... -10,000  (slipstream)
   "Dark Frontier" .. -15,000  (transwarp)

According to Chakotay, Naomi Wildman is the only child on Voyager. It had been suggested in previous episodes that there had been other births within the past five years.
Starfleet regulation 191, article 14: "In a combat situation involving more than one ship, command falls to the vessel with tactical superiority."
Starfleet regulation 3, paragraph 12: "In the event of imminent destruction, a captain is authorized to preserve the lives of his crew by any justifiable means."

Janeway meets the captain (John Savage) of a science vessel, also stranded in Delta Quadrant; Voyager crew members start to disappear.

The U.S.S. Voyager finds another Federation starship lost in the Delta Quadrant, the science vessel U.S.S. Equinox, and helps it stave off an attack by creatures from another spatial realm. Captain Janeway now has a kindred spirit in its commander, Captain John Ransom, and helps him salvage his war-torn vessel so they can journey home together. But when The Doctor retrieves data from the U.S.S. Equinox research lab, Janeway learns the hard truth that Captain Ransom has seriously violated the Starfleet oath by commiting mass murder in the Delta Quadrant. When she strips him of his command and confines him to quarters, he and his crew manage to escape with the U.S.S. Voyager's advanced technology--and The Doctor and Seven of Nine as hostages aboard their ship.