Equinox crew??

[borgboy]

I loved the Equinox crew, and was disapointed when they didn't get used after their initial story. Thought some interesting things could have been done with them, if they sought redemption, or continued to make bad moral decisions, and surely there would be controversy among the crew about them.

 

[PopBoy]

Yes, I would of loved to have seen further development with the remaining Equinox crew. Underwritten. But then again, some of Voyagers main characters were woefully underwritten.

 

[The_Baroness]

Odd though, many say that not showing them again shows a lack of continuity on Voyager's part but nobody ever questions what happened to the Starfleet Security Chief that showed up during the second season of DS9.

You mean Eddington?
He joined the Maquis and was killed to death.....

 

[Guy Gardener]

I thought it was left open so that his death could have been seen as a mistaken certainty so that he could live happily ever after... You know, like every single issue of Sergeant Rock until the smoke cleared and he said some thing like "the bullets were scared of me".

 

[T'Girl]

John Savage [snip] but clearly his violations would exempt him from command

Which also should have applied to Chakotay, who was made first officer solely for reasons of internal ship's politics. What happen to the Equinox crew should have happen to Chakotay's maquis crew, stripped of any maquis rank and allowed to "work passage" back to the Alpha Quadrant down on the lower decks under constant surveillance by Tuvok's people.

 

[The_Baroness]

John Savage [snip] but clearly his violations would exempt him from command

Which also should have applied to Chakotay, who was made first officer solely for reasons of internal ship's politics. What happen to the Equinox crew should have happen to Chakotay's maquis crew, stripped of any maquis rank and allowed to "work passage" back to the Alpha Quadrant down on the lower decks under constant surveillance by Tuvok's people.

but at the time, Janeway had no choice but to recruit the Maquis as she wouldn't have had enough people left to run the ship effectively.

By the time Ransom popped up, Chakotay and co had earned the trust and respect of the crew enough that they could afford to be more picky about letting a mental starfleet captain take over.

 

[Guy Gardener]

According to Janeway she could lick any Court Martial the Law might try to throw down on her after she's decided to be above the law.

Why not Ransom too?

Given that Janeway would be the Judge in any official enquiry, Ransom might have been fucked, or possibly not but that Max was a slippery S.O.B. who could have squirmed his way out of the tightest of accusations.

 

[exodus]

Odd though, many say that not showing them again shows a lack of continuity on Voyager's part but nobody ever questions what happened to the Starfleet Security Chief that showed up during the second season of DS9.

You mean Eddington?
He joined the Maquis and was killed to death.....

No,I said second season.
Eddington isn't until much later.

 

[Sean Aaron]

No,I said second season.
Eddington isn't until much later.

He decided to make an upward career move and got reassigned to U.S.S. Odyssee.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I think he means Primmon, who showed up for a couple episodes in the FIRST season. While he was obstensibly a Starfleet security chief, he was only really there to say most of O'Brien's lines in some non-O'Brien episodes, as Colm Meaney was off filming a movie at the time.

Sometimes I wonder what people were so worried about the "Equinox Five". For starters, THREE of them were non-speaking extras; only Marla and Noah were actual characters of the lot. It would have been nice to have one or both of them back, but a relevant story just didn't come up. It would have been nice for their histories to be explored in some way, and it would have been a nice "in" to rekindle some of the long-cooled tensions between Starfleet and Maquis that were SUPPOSED to be a source of conflict in the show. In any case, a mention would have been nice, but Voyager was really not that kind of show, which we were figuring out by that point in the original airdates.

Mark

 

[exodus]

No,I said second season.
Eddington isn't until much later.

He decided to make an upward career move and got reassigned to U.S.S. Odyssee.

I'm sorry, it was actually first season.
They brought his character in because Colm Meaney was busy on another project and brought the character in to fill the spot...............but he just disappears when Meany returned. He was supposed to be teamed up with Odo.

I found it: Lt. Primmin played by James Lashly.

 

[Guy Gardener]

He had a whole buddy subplot with Odo in the novelization.

 

[jpch]

they had no rank,and prob were doing some crap stuff like cleaning the ship,plasma conduits on deck 15 (that was always a reference for bad labor :P)

 

[RickCHodgin]

This is an old post, but I was thinking about this today. I'm wondering what happened to the Equinox crew? We never see them again on Voyager, but I'm wondering if there are any canon or non-canon books or articles or interviews which conveyed information about what happened to them after they returned to the alpha quadrant?

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Lynx]

They became members of the Shuttle and Torpedo Building Team, a unit which was created in the beginning of 2372. The members were Carey, Rollins, Dalby, Chell, Henley and Gerron.
Later on Vorik, Samantha Wildman, The Borg Baby and the Equinox members were added to the team.

 

[RickCHodgin]

They became members of the Shuttle and Torpedo Building Team, a unit which was created in the beginning of 2372. The members were Carey, Rollins, Dalby, Chell, Henley and Gerron.
Later on Vorik, Samantha Wildman, The Borg Baby and the Equinox members were added to the team.

The real names are: Marla Gilmore, Noah Lessing, James Morrow, Angelo Tassoni, and Brian Sofin.

I was hoping for a real reply. I remember hearing about a book (No Man's Land) that referenced The USS Equinox, but I have no knowledge of its contents, or how it is referenced.

I had a discussion yesterday asking what choices people would make for the crew once they returned to Earth as was seen in Voyager's series finale. I was of the opinion that they should have some kind of formal charge added to their citizen status in the Federation, that there should be no jail time or confinement, but that they should be precluded from ever holding an office of trust, any elected office, or any officer status in Starfleet. They could re-join as enlisted men and women if they chose, but that'd be it. Their lives would essentially be relegated to living out their days without the ability to exert leadership influence over others.

I came to this conclusion given the fact that they were in a Nova class ship in the Delta quadrant, with no real hope or chance of ever making it back to Federation space, and being practically forced into a position of having to seek to save their own lives lest they be destroyed.

I do not agree with that position, but I recognize it would be the position of many people. And as such, I could not hold them accountable for those actions in a confinement capacity. I would give them the formal charge upon their life, so it's a constant reminder of what they've done, but also give them a bit of acknowledgment that we (the Federation) understand why they did what they did given the fate they were facing, the attacks and circumstances they were under (before they met the aliens they used for fuel), and the desperate nature which called for desperate measures.

I was just wondering if there is anything official, canon or non-canon in released documents, videos, books, movies, which indicate anything that happened to Marla, Noah, James, Angelo and Brian?

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

 

[Lynx]

^^
Sorry if my comment in this thread offended you in any way. It wasn't meant to be like that.

As for Gilmore, Lessing, Morrow, Tassoni and Sofin, I haven't read anything about what happened to them during their stay on Voyager and afterwards, not in the few Voyager books written after season 3 which I have read or at Memory Alpha or Memory Beta.

As for my comment about the Shuttle and Torpedo Building Team I have to admit that it actually did start as a joke once upon a time. A joke which could explain why certain crewmembers dissapeared after playing an important part in one or some episodes.

But later on, when I started to come up with explanations for the many, many contradictions and odd things in the series, the whole idea of a Torpedo and Shuttle Building Team did seem not only plausible but realistic as well.

Imagine this: In the beginning of 2172, Voyager was out of shuttles. They had also wasted a lot of their precious torpedoes around the same time so obviously they had to start replacing shuttles and torpedoes. And someone had to build them!

So why not assume that some characters who had proven themselves as skilled but never been seen again would have been assigned to that very important job.

The great thing with such an idea is that it solves two problems: First, what happened to those characters and second, who are replacing the shuttles and torpedoes that they have wasted and continued to waste during the series.

And sometimes I also wonder what happened to certain characters, like Hajar who was a member of the Nova Squadron which included Nick Locarno, Wes Crusher and Sito Jaxa.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

As we didn't see the Maquis working hard to win the trust & respect from Janeway and her crew with the moments of tension that go with, it would have been great to see that with the Equinox crew. Plus, it would have shown that producers & scripters listened viewers critics, as seeing as the lack of tension between both crews was one of the big critics made.

For my part, I would have liked to see the relationship between Janeway and Lessing evolves from hate/misunderstanding, especially after what happened between them in Equinox to something more mutual respect/understanding.

And I liked the exchanges between Chakotay/Marla Gilmore. They could have made a nice couple at the end

 

[TonyLeung82]

This is an old post, but I was thinking about this today. I'm wondering what happened to the Equinox crew? We never see them again on Voyager, but I'm wondering if there are any canon or non-canon books or articles or interviews which conveyed information about what happened to them after they returned to the alpha quadrant?

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin

You know that one guy of them was seen in another episode again ("Repentance" with Brian Sofin). Everybody is thinking the Equinox-Crew did not appear again, but Brian Sofin did once. He was not credited in his role, but same actor.

 

[RickCHodgin]

You know that one guy of them was seen in another episode again ("Repentance" with Brian Sofin). Everybody is thinking the Equinox-Crew did not appear again, but Brian Sofin did once. He was not credited in his role, but same actor.

He did! I never noticed it before: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Brian_Sofin

"In 2377 [Sofin] served as guard for Neelix when the Talaxian served soup to the Nygean and Benkaran prisoners in the cargo bay. (VOY: Repentance). Sofin was played by background performer Mark Rogerson who received no credit for his appearances. He was the only surviving Equinox crew member to appear in any subsequent episode."

Does that also mean that non-surviving Equinox crew members appeared in later episodes? :-)

Thank you,
Rick C. Hodgin