USS EQUINOX

The 'USS ''Equinox'' ' (NCC-72381) is a Federation Starfleet ''Nova'' class starship in the science fiction television series ''. It appeared in the '' episode "Equinox" when the USS ''Voyager'' encounters it in the Delta Quadrant.
It was under the command of Captain Rudy Ransom. He was a renowned exo-biologist who had made first contact with the Yridians, a species thought to be extinct by the United Federation of Planets and the Borg Collective. The ''Equinox'', like the USS Voyager, was transported to the Delta Quadrant of the galaxy by an alien entity named the Caretaker in 2371. While returning to the Alpha Quadrant, the crew and ship took heavy damage and casualties in conflicts with aliens. By 2375, the ship was severely damaged and running on thrusters when the ''Equinox'' encountered an alien race named the Ankari, who exposed the crew to nucleogenic life-forms made of antimatter. The crew constructed a containment field to harvest these life-forms in an attempt to increase the ship's speed.
After encountering the USS ''Voyager'' the ''Equinox'' crew stole the Voyager's Shield Generator (theirs was permanently damaged) exposing ''Voyager'' to the alien attacks, while the ''Equinox'' warped out of the sector leaving ''Voyager'' behind. ''Voyager'' eventually made proper contact with the aliens and worked with them to get back their Shield Generator. The ''Equinox'' was shortly thereafter destroyed by others of the same species, who detonated the ''Equinox'''s warp core. The surviving ''Equinox'' crew members were taken aboard the USS ''Voyager'', stripped of rank for their actions and returned to service as crewmen under heavy supervision. Captain Ransom was killed when his ship was destroyed; he was piloting the ''Equinox'' away from ''Voyager'' to prevent both ships being destroyed in the resulting explosion.
The ship design first appears in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine Technical Manual as the original pathfinder vessel that eventually became the USS Defiant.

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