Another Federation starship in the Delta Quadrant brings trouble for Voyager.
Answering a distress call, the Voyager crew finds the Federation Starship Equinox, a vessel made for planetary research. Captain Ransom pleads with Janeway to extend Voyager’s shields over his ship, which is under attack. As the shields are put in place, interspatial fissures erupt on several decks. Once a rescue team boards Equinox, they find many crewmembers dead of a thermolitic reaction. A few people are still alive, including Ransom, who explains that his ship was also pulled into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.
Aliens are trying to enter the two ships at every fissure point. At the current rate, Voyager will be under full attack in less than two days. However, the aliens cannot survive inside the ship’s atmosphere, so the crew sets out to create a multi-phasic forcefield to trap the aliens and show them they cannot afford to continue their assault. Meanwhile, Ransom and Burke secretly discuss that they must hide their research lab and warp core from the Voyager crew.
Once Seven determines how to create a security grid that will protect the ships, Janeway decides it will be in everyone’s best interest to abandon the Equinox and concentrate all efforts on preserving Voyager. Ransom and his crew prepare to steal Voyager’s field generator and leave them behind. When Seven and Tuvok discover the research lab aboard Equinox has been deliberately contaminated with radiation to keep them away from it, Janeway sends in the Doctor to investigate.
The Doctor finds organic matter -- the aliens -- which has been converted into a crystalline compound. The compound can be used to enhance the Equinox’s propulsion systems. When Janeway learns that Ransom and his crew were planning to kill as many alien species as it took to get home, she confines them to their quarters and sets about to make contact with the aliens. Meanwhile, the Doctor goes back to the Equinox research lab and summons their EMH, which looks exactly like him. He explains that he created the conversion technology after his ethical subroutines were deleted. Then, he disables the Doctor and steals his holo-emitter.
Once the evil Doctor frees his crew from confinement, they beam back to their ship. Seven, who was onboard trying to disable their converters, is unconscious. Before the security grid can be put on-line, Ransom and his crew steal Voyager’s field generator. As the Equinox is set on course for the Alpha Quadrant at warp speed, Voyager’s shields go completely off-line, and the aliens attack Janeway and the crew through fissures on all decks...
CAST
CAPTAIN KATHRYN JANEWAY
KATE MULGREW
CHAKOTAY
ROBERT BELTRAN
B'ELANNA TORRES
ROXANN DAWSON
TOM PARIS
ROBERT DUNCAN MCNEILL
NEELIX
ETHAN PHILLIPS
THE DOCTOR
ROBERT PICARDO
TUVOK
TIM RUSS
SEVEN OF NINE
JERI RYAN
HARRY KIM
GARRETT WANG
SPECIAL GUEST STAR
JOHN SAVAGE as Captain Ransom
GUEST STARS
BURKE
TITUS WELLIVER
GILMORE
OLIVIA BIRKELUND
LESSING
RICK WORTHY
Teleplay by: BRANNON BRAGA &
JOE MENOSKY
Story by: RICK BERMAN &
BRANNON BRAGA &
JOE MENOSKY
Directed by: DAVID LIVINGSTON
HIGHLIGHT LISTING
STAR TREK: VOYAGER: “Equinox” (Part I) -- Another Federation starship in the Delta Quadrant brings trouble for Voyager.
