Stardate: unknown
U.S.S. Equinox, a
Nova-class starship with heavily modified shields, being menaced by creatures that appear in fissures in space. Captain Rudolph Ransom orders their weakened shields to be lowered and reinitialized so they’ll be back at full strength, though that will take forty-five seconds, according to his first officer, Commander Max Burke. They do it, firing phaser rifles at the creatures as they materialize on the bridge, one of which kills one of the crew.
Voyager picks up a distress call from the
Equinox. Janeway and Chakotay are gobsmacked to find a Federation starship here in the Delta Quadrant, and wonder if they were sent to the DQ to find