Of Ransom's crew, only 12 are still alive. Ransom shares that they found a wormhole and made enhancements to their warp engines, explaining how this allowed the smaller and slower Equinox to travel the same 40,000 light years as Voyager on its return to Earth.

Janeway and Ransom discuss how both their ships had been pulled into the Delta Quadrant, five years earlier, by The Caretaker. Under advice from the Equinox captain, Rudy Ransom, Captain Kathryn Janeway has Voyager extend its shields around both ships, quelling the attack, though the creatures continue to bear down on the shields, weakening them over time. They arrive to find the damaged ship under attack by nucleogenic lifeforms. USS Voyager's crew is surprised to receive an emergency hail from another Federation starship, the Equinox, in the Delta Quadrant. The broadcast of Part 2 in September 1999 marked the first time since 1992 that only one Star Trek series was on the air. Part 1 is also the last episode of Star Trek: Voyager to air before the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series finale, ' What You Leave Behind'. The two-part episode features Captain Ransom, played by actor John Savage, as well as several other guest stars. The cliffhanger closed out season five, while the opener for season six was the conclusion. This was presented in two parts, but aired several months apart, with part one airing on UPN on and the conclusion on September 22, 1999. In this installment, they encounter another Starfleet starship, the USS Equinox also stranded in the Delta Quadrant. This television episode features a 24th-century spacecraft, the USS Voyager, lost on the opposite side of the Galaxy as Earth, the Delta Quadrant, and they must make their way home. ' Equinox' is a two-part episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the cliffhanger between the fifth and sixth seasons. Olivia Birkelund as Ensign Marla Gilmore.Titus Welliver as Lieutenant Commander Maxwell Burke.

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