USS Equinox problem

vanar · Post by **vanar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:46 am

why didnt they Caretaker return the Equinox like the other vessels it took like the Cardassian Galor.
And why didnt it return the dreadnought missile?
I'd like to here peoples ideas on it

I Am Spartacus · Post by **I Am Spartacus** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:51 am

Because it was destroyed? When was the Equinox sent to the Delta quadrant?

vanar · Post by **vanar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:53 am

sometime before voyager maybe a few months, upto a year maybe.

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:52 pm

Yes I;m pretty sure it had been around longer than Voyager. It really should have been sent back. Never thought of that before...

Maybe they ran away when they were brough afraid of being destroyed. Or the caretaker got distracted.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:43 pm

Maybe they annoyed the caretaker?

Crushproof · Post by **Crushproof** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:48 pm

Seems like they didn't know the Caretaker was going to send them back, or they got chased off during one of the frequent Kazon attacks.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:33 pm

But if the Caretaker could send it to the Delta Quadrant from the Alpha, it's not like the Equinox was out of reach a few dozen or so light years away. That doesn't make much sense.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:53 pm

Quite a lot in Trek dosen't make sense. Are you only noticing this now?

Blackstar the Chakat · Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:39 pm

Purhaps the Caretaker had started giving the Ocampa all of the array's spare energy, and didn't have enough to send the Equinox back, giving the search a higher priority, saving a civilization over some 80 people. It would be the Vulcan thing to do. As for the Dreadnaught, it was unmanned and the Caretaker decided it didn't need to be sent back.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:49 pm

Makes sense. I've always wondered how Dreadnaught got into the Delta Quadrent in the first place - the Caretaker said he scanned the ships first to see if there were potential replacements aboard, so surely he'd notice that the missile was unmanned.

Blackstar the Chakat · Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:14 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:Makes sense. I've always wondered how Dreadnaught got into the Delta Quadrent in the first place - the Caretaker said he scanned the ships first to see if there were potential replacements aboard, so surely he'd notice that the missile was unmanned.

Perhaps it detected intellagence, a possiblity since a living replacement may not be totally nessesary. Just someone to run the station. After determining that it wasn't compatable with the array's systems and that there was no need to send it back the dreadnaught went on to select a target.

Tiberius · Post by **Tiberius** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:44 am

Since when did the caretaker send ships back?

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:26 am

Tiberius wrote:Since when did the caretaker send ships back?

True. I'm assuming something was said in the first episode? Which, by the way, I haven't seen in ages. I think I'm in the mood for it.

Post by **Teaos** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:47 am

I'm pretty sure he sent them back.

Also maybe his power could only pull ships to his station and to send them back he needed them up close to the station so when they ran he couldnt send them back.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:49 am

Perhaps the array only worked one way? It could pull ships towards it, but not push them away?