Talk:Equinox (Star Trek: Voyager)

Starfleet Ethics in the Delta Quadrant
I found this episode to be particularly engaging. Here we have Captain Janeway, a woman who prides herself on sticking to the Prime Directive, who must stand face to face with a fellow Captain who has thrown the rulebook out the nearest airlock. However, and I am deeply interested how other may see this, I think I had to side with Capt. Ransom. The Nova- class starship was not nearly as equipped for such a trip as Voyager was. They did not have a former Borg drone and her corresponding Borg technology. They did not have a properly functioning Emergency Medical Hologram. Their warp drive system was not the same top- of - the - line powerplant Voyager had. Sonic showers and replicators were long since off- line. Most of the crew was dead. I think this episode showcases what every normal human would do in a hopeless situation: Survive at all costs.

Captain Ransom was right. One may preach about ethics and the Prime Directive when your crew is not starving. Captain Janeway, always willing to do the right thing, was wrong to a degree. The need to kill to survive is not a new concept. Overall, I think Ransom was only trying to do what Janeway ultimately did: Just get his crew home safely. By the way, just how did Janeway get home? Oh, yes, she did it by practically wiping out an entire race. Sure, the Borg was the most formidable threat of our galaxy, but whether it is alien being from another dimension or a race of bionics, it all boils down to the instinct of survival.Jason Keyes 17:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Response to the Borg part: Janeway did not kill all the Borg. The Shatnerverse books are non-canon, as all the other books are, but books can explore an idea further than a 48 minute tv show. The Borg homeworld is a planet-cyborg. Borg queens are rogue elements of Borg "branches" or rogue factions that have become separate from the Borgworld. Janeway destroyed one branch of the Borg, the branch that specifically threatened Humanity and the Federation. Why? Because the series had to end, and the writers were out of ideas. If the episode had been thoughtfully written, Janeway would have struck a deal of some kind with the Borg, and exchanged technology, history, maybe even had tea with the Borg Queen and set up an embassy. What does this have to do with the topic? Just illustrating the difference between a well written episode, Equinox, and a poorly written one, End Game. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.30.13 (talk) 22:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Novel
Should be mention this two-parter was turned into a novel. Lots42 (talk) 10:09, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter reviewed the episode at the time, September 22, 2009. With the knowledge that it exists maybe someone has access to archives that include Hollywood Reporter back issues and could add references to that contemporary review? -- 109.79.168.87 (talk) 03:06, 15 September 2021 (UTC)