After spending a few seasons seeing how willing to cross the line Janeway is (ala Kirk) we finally get our Omega Glory episode about a captain who goes too far. Instead of arming one side in a conflict Captain Ransom has his crew capturing alien life forms from another plane of reality or something and grinding them up for fuel. I can't imagine why these creatures are upset about all this. I had thought that I didn't watch this far into the series, but I was wrong, I remember the evil Doctor possibly hanging around after this arc was complete and thinking he was the worst, but so far so good. I always really enjoy when they have ships other than ones that are the same class as the main series ship to show how starfleet really is a fleet and not just one set that they switch crews for every once in a while. (Although this bridge certainly looks like a redressed Voyager bridge set.)
We open on the bridge of the Equinox. They are in bad shape and things get worse when they are forced to drop shields and rifts open around bridge allowing aliens to pour through. Most are shot but one manages to touch a crew member who desiccates instantly. Cut to Voyager where they have detected the distress signal and respond at warp 9. They find the Equinox in bad shape and manage to protect it with Voyagers shields. Janeway is excited to meet Captain Ransom who got famous with a first contact years earlier. Everybody is buddy buddy and it even turns out the first officer is Torres' ex. They start working on a plan to contain the creatures to stop them from attacking when they come through but whenever any body starts asking deeper questions about what was happening the Equinox crew clam up. The part of their ship responsible for the containment is flooded with radiation so they download the specs and get working creating a new one. In private Ransom asks Janeway about how she has handled the Prime Directive and seems disappointed she hasn't ignored it more.
That night Ransom meets with his crew to come up with a plan to steal the confinement device and escape back to the Alpha Quadrant. They seem unsure but move forward with the plan to disconnect the device and disable the local sensors. Tuvok has grown suspicious though and talks to Janeway. She agrees to send the Doctor to investigate the irradiated parts of the Equinox. He finds evidence that they were capturing the creatures and turning them into fuel. Janeway arrests Ransom and his crew are confined to a cargobay. The Doctor goes back to try and get more information and activates the local EMH to get more info, but it turns out this EMH has had its ethical subroutines disabled and it steals the mobile emitter and frees the Equinox crew. Just as shields fail on Voyager they break out and steal the containment generator before escaping to the Equinox. The evil EMH turns off his emitter though and is left behind. The Equinox escapes with an unconscious Seven in their engine room.
Review: This was an exciting episode and the fact that I quit watching soon after the conclusion has me worried. But that was also around the time I left for college which may explain why I suddenly had other things to do.
6 out of 10
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