Another federation starship is lost in the Delta Quadrant and Janeway deduces it’s the USS Equinox after the distress call has just said it was. Really, StarFleet to lose one starship may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness. The Equinox is a bit of a rough time of it though and their ship is falling apart thanks to attacks by aliens from another dimension. Pfft amateurs. Voyager extends it’s shields to help though. Captain Ransom, who seems to be doing his best Batman voice impression, and Janeway order repairs on the Equinox to begin. Everything isn’t all rosy with the Equinox crew though and it seems they started killing the dimensional aliens in the first place to make fuel to get them home quicker. Captain Batman orders his crew not to disclose any of this to the Voyager crew. However the Voyager crew discover it eventually and Janeway has the crew thrown in the brig. The Equinox EMH after swapping places with the Voyager one, frees them. Captain Batman and his crew escape to their ship and warp away leaving Voyager a sitting duck to the encroaching aliens....
One of the Equinox crewmembers tell Chakotay about the Ponea who are the “life and party of the Delta Quadrant”. They gave the Equinox crew basically a portable holodeck and saw everything as an excuse to party. “Never heard of them” replied Chakotay. Why doesn’t that surprise me.
Obviously there are a few annoying things with the episode, for example Naomi Wildman showing up randomly to tell an Equinox crewman she’s the Captain’s Assistant, but it is an excellently dark episode and is easily the best episode of season five. Janeway even has great moments standing up to Captain Batman.
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