Equinox: Part II 

Temporarily shielded from the alien attack, Janeway orders that their first priority is to find the Equinox, stop Ransom and recover Seven of Nine. Chakotay disagrees but obeys. Voyager ... See full summary »

Director:

David Livingston

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (based upon "Star Trek" created by), Rick Berman (created by)

Stars:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran	...	Chakotay
Roxann Dawson	...	B'Elanna Torres
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor / Equinox EMH
Tim Russ	...	Tuvok
Jeri Ryan	...	Seven of Nine
Garrett Wang	...	Harry Kim
John Savage	...	Captain Rudy Ransom
Titus Welliver	...	Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Burke
Olivia Birkelund	...	Ensign Marla Gilmore
Rick Worthy	...	Crewman Noah Lessing
Eric Steinberg	...	Ankari
Steven Dennis	...	Crewman Thompson (as Steve Dennis)

Storyline

Temporarily shielded from the alien attack, Janeway orders that their first priority is to find the Equinox, stop Ransom and recover Seven of Nine. Chakotay disagrees but obeys. Voyager finds Equinox and captures a few of its crew members before they escape again. Chakotay stops Janeway within seconds of sacrificing the Equinox crewman and Janeway relieves him of duty. Meanwhile, the Equinox EMH, posing as Voyager's doctor, keeps in contact with Ransom. The Doctor, on-board the Equinox with his ethical subroutines disabled, performs surgery on Seven that will extract information but destroy her brain. Ransom has a change of heart and decides to surrender to Janeway. In disagreement, his crew stages a mutiny. Janeway finds the Ankari, a race that can mediate with the attacking aliens, makes contact with them and agrees to turn over the Equinox in exchange for Voyager's safety.

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Plot Keywords:

24th century | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 September 1999 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Ronald D. Moore would later rework this concept into the episode "Pegasus" in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. The Pegasus experiences a crisis similar to the one encountered by the Equinox: alone in Cylon controlled space and with only half its crew, the commanding officer of Pegasus forces refugees into service and takes critical supplies and parts, and then leaves the refugees' shipmates to die.

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Goofs

In the previous episode, Equinox: Part 1, Captain Janeway states that a Nova class starship has a max speed of warp 8. Yet in this episode she states that without the enhanced warp drive, the Equinox is only capable of a maximum of warp 6.

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Quotes

Captain Rudy Ransom: You've got a fine crew, Captain. Promise me you'll get 'em home.
Captain Kathryn Janeway: I promise.

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Soundtracks

Star Trek: Voyager - Main Title
Written by Jerry Goldsmith
Performed by Jay Chattaway

User Reviews

The second part of this Savage confrontation is even better.

This is the second of a two-part episode. In part one, Voyager makes contact with another Federation ship in the Delta Quadrant. They apparently got there the same way Voyager did. However, it soon becomes apparent to survive this long, the Equinox crew have chosen to ignore the Prime Directive and they have been killing a species of life to convert it into fuel! Janeway is horrified and has this crew confined to quarters. However the Equinox's evil holo doctor rescues them and they escape--leaving Voyager to deal with the wrath of the creatures Equinox has been killing!

In part two, you see a wonderful change come over Captain Janeway. She becomes a bit like Captain Ahab and is determined to do just about anything to punish the Equinox crew--including abandoning them to the wrath of the creatures they've been killing. This is MEGA- cool as the Captain it too often too nice--here she is absolutely nasty--and deservedly so. Well worth seeing just for this!

Overall, this is a very exciting episode--even better than part one. Well worth seeing.