USS Equinox Retrospective

Here's the Nova Class Starship USS Equinox from Star Trek Voyager. This is a breakdown of its history, design, interior and other appearances like the USS Rhode Island from the series finale "Endgame"
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USS Equinox Nova Class Star Trek Voyager Retrospective
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USS Equinox Nova Class Star Trek Voyager Retrospective

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  • @pitmatix1457
    @pitmatix14574 жыл бұрын

    There needs to be a show about the "average joe" style Starfleet vessels like the Nova class and the missions they get sent on. I can imagine a Star Trek: Nova show: Episode 1: "The Anomaly" The Nova is sent on a mission to collect data on a strange spacial anomaly and return it to Starfleet. When arriving there, they collect data which they then return to Starfleet. Starfleet says thanks. Episode 2: "Heal Thyself" The Nova is sent to deliver a vaccine to a plague stricken world. They deliver the vaccine and the people there start to get better. Episode 3: "The Passenger" The Nova is visited by counsellor Troi who is to be transported to Starbase 14. Troi discovers that everyone seems in pretty good mental shape and seems fairly happy. Episode 4: "Please Q Here" Q visits the USS Nova. He does not announce his presence. He just hangs about for a bit then leaves without causing a fuss. No one notices. Episode 5: "New Friends" The Nova escorts an ambassador from a newly discovered alien race. They seem pretty nice but have slightly bumpy foreheads. Episode 6: "Watch Duty" The Nova is assigned patrol duties along the Romulan neutral zone. They don't find any infractions. Epsode 7: "Hell day part 1" Due to a malfunction the Nova replicators are unable to produce pasta dishes. Episode 8: "Hell day part 2" The replicator system is rebooted and pasta dishes reappear on the replicators. Episode 9: "The Aurora" Another spacial anomaly but this time it's multi-coloured.

  • @LockedBreech

    @LockedBreech

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am laughing my ass off at this. Underappreciated.

  • @andreanwandrean

    @andreanwandrean

    4 жыл бұрын

    What i hope star trek lower deck would be

  • @mangamegs

    @mangamegs

    4 жыл бұрын

    That season finale sounds amazing!!!-

  • @SpaceMonke99

    @SpaceMonke99

    4 жыл бұрын

    When you think about it, most people who enlist in Starfleet don't expect the hijinx all the ships from the shows undergo. This here is likely a day in the life of a Starfleet officer not on any 5 year missions in deep space or on stations near strategically valuable wormholes.

  • @cha02psc

    @cha02psc

    4 жыл бұрын

    I would totally watch this show. What with all the hi-jinx that happened on the Enterprise I’d have transferred to another ship after “Farpoint”

  • @strawhataddison
    @strawhataddison5 жыл бұрын

    You nailed the Chevy Nova joke, but missed out on the obvious Chevy Equinox joke!

  • @JunkBallMedia

    @JunkBallMedia

    5 жыл бұрын

    OMG, yes! I rented one of those on a trip. The driver side vent was stuck and aimed directly at my knee. Annoying as 💩

  • @DrewLSsix

    @DrewLSsix

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mike DeMarco there’s an old beige Reliant in my neighborhood, I want it so I can replace the chrome luggage rack on the trunk with a Miranda roll bar!

  • @Patchuchan

    @Patchuchan

    4 жыл бұрын

    Depends what year of Chevy Nova some of the 1960s and 1970s ones were pretty fast.

  • @loganiushere

    @loganiushere

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mike DeMarco psst cat manufacturers might be naming cars after Star Trek ships.

  • @drwho135

    @drwho135

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if there was a U.S.S. Pinto that exploded every time a shuttle landed in the rear?

  • @pepperVenge
    @pepperVenge5 жыл бұрын

    I liked that Episode. It was cool to watch how Janeway began to panic (she acted more aggressive, but thats how people hide their panic) at the sight of a Starfleet captain who crossed a moral line in order to get home quicker. It seemed that she was having a battle in her own mind of whether or not she could be pushed to cross the same line, and how very angry she was with Captain Ransom for doing what he did. It was also great to see how easily she forgave Ransom after she saw him trying to do the right thing in the end. I would rank "Equinox" high on my list of top Voyager Episodes.

  • @davidlister7590

    @davidlister7590

    4 жыл бұрын

    She crossed the Moral line many times to get home quicker but its ok since the show plot armour says she can.

  • @elizabethd2916

    @elizabethd2916

    4 жыл бұрын

    pepperVenge I totally agree with you. This is high on my list of favorite Star Trek episodes. The moral line that shines so brightly when you are clean and rested and fed gets dimmer and dimmer the worse your situation becomes. I always loved this episode understood that that was true but still drew the line against murder and was not afraid to call Ransom out. But it was also in many ways the end of Janeway’s Captain Ahab era. After this episode she became much less dogmatic in her quest to get home at any cost.

  • @iondustt

    @iondustt

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly this. She had still doubts if she should have destroyed the Catretaker array andd the fact that some Starfleet captain choosed the other option made her really insecure

  • @duncananderson6333

    @duncananderson6333

    2 жыл бұрын

    I just now connected the dots that The Cerritos' first officer Jack Ransom has the same name. Wonder if it's just coincidence or they meant to make them related? Would be an interesting added depth for him to Exquinox Ransom's son or nephew.

  • @henrylockhart495

    @henrylockhart495

    Жыл бұрын

    @@duncananderson6333this is a great point!

  • @maeinureyes
    @maeinureyes5 жыл бұрын

    I do love the look of this little ship.

  • @keirfarnum6811

    @keirfarnum6811

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too. I always liked the Nova Class.

  • @dramonmaster222
    @dramonmaster2225 жыл бұрын

    The Equinox is a small but pretty ship.

  • @resurrectedstarships

    @resurrectedstarships

    5 жыл бұрын

    Me too!

  • @DrewLSsix

    @DrewLSsix

    5 жыл бұрын

    Resurrected Starships you are a small but pretty ship? Eh🤷‍♂️. Who am I to judge, but that acronym just keeps getting longer! LGBTQ and now S!

  • @resurrectedstarships

    @resurrectedstarships

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DrewLSsix I am part of LGBTQ...S community - I identify as a pretty ship!

  • @VCYT

    @VCYT

    4 жыл бұрын

    I said the same about Kes....then fell in love with 7of9.

  • @Davey-TheDJ

    @Davey-TheDJ

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@resurrectedstarships 💟

  • @austin1839
    @austin18395 жыл бұрын

    IMO they missed a great opportunity to have Equinox survive without harming the aliens and joining Voyager on her way back home. The interaction between the crews and ships would have made great stories.

  • @telesniper2

    @telesniper2

    3 жыл бұрын

    It would have made a better story arc than that Kazon bullshit

  • @antonberkbigler5759

    @antonberkbigler5759

    2 жыл бұрын

    While not exactly applicable I think that having the equinox as a support craft could’ve been used in some of the episodes and roles that the delta flyer did, insofar as “smaller vessel that can go on external missions from voyager for a purpose” is the role of the delta flyer, then again maybe they (diegetically, I recognize the out of universe reasons) could’ve just fixed up their aeroshuttle instead of making the delta flyer, or even modified said aeroshuttle to make the delta flyer and called that the delta flyer. Though I do think that the fact that the equinox is so much slower than voyager is a big problem that could hamper their journey, though they could probably (mostly) overcome that problem with their federation ingenuity. Directly docking their vessels together or at least connecting their warp bubbles, maybe? Something I’ve noticed is that starfleet vessels don’t really seem to be designed with fleet actions in mind. They can do fleet actions, but from a ground up perspective they seem to be designed first and foremost for solitary mission profiles with the fleets, squads, wings and whatever else being an afterthought.

  • @Goodiesfanful

    @Goodiesfanful

    Жыл бұрын

    I wonder what the full story of Equinox would have looked like as a series. Not likely to happen, I know. But what would be really cool? A series or least an episode or storyline where Marla Gilmore (the most redeemed of the Equinox crowd) captains her own ship!

  • @Tekrel

    @Tekrel

    Жыл бұрын

    Doubt they had the budget for a whole different crew to hang around

  • @Ricky_Baldy

    @Ricky_Baldy

    9 ай бұрын

    Or just have the equinox survive for one season and have its destruction as the season climax.

  • @SurfTrekTonics
    @SurfTrekTonics5 жыл бұрын

    Haha, I never noticed how many rocks explode out of Starship computer consoles.

  • @DLordSadow

    @DLordSadow

    5 жыл бұрын

    Surf Trektronics It’s actually burning or burnt cork.

  • @SurfTrekTonics

    @SurfTrekTonics

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DLordSadow Right the crew stashes all their whine bottles behind the consoles in cork cases, so instant exploding tree foam shrapnel projectiles everywhere.

  • @DLordSadow

    @DLordSadow

    5 жыл бұрын

    Surf Trektronics I was referring to what they use on the sets for debris. It’s lightweight, soft, and you can set it on fire without burning down the set. Now, whether it’s the most convincing looking material to simulate flying debris on a spaceship bridge is debatable.

  • @SurfTrekTonics

    @SurfTrekTonics

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DLordSadow Yes I was just going with the joke. Likely limited budgets made them keep the cork debris instead of replacing with broken electronic things.

  • @glenwaldrop8166

    @glenwaldrop8166

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well, semi-conductors are made of processed and purified sand, so...

  • @Tirpitz7
    @Tirpitz75 жыл бұрын

    Ah, the Nova class, my all-time favorite starship design. It's a thing of beauty.

  • @fisk0

    @fisk0

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy to see others sharing that view, the Equinox episodes and that ship design have stuck with me ever since they originally aired. Such a lovely ship design which I wish we'd see more of. Hope it'll get a chance on that new Picard show.

  • @Tirpitz7

    @Tirpitz7

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@fisk0 When I started playing Star Trek: Online, my goal was to reach the rank of admiral with a Nova class as my flagship.

  • @Tirpitz7

    @Tirpitz7

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@inferiorexterior9335 I'm still after one myself.

  • @edgarmorales889

    @edgarmorales889

    4 жыл бұрын

    I completely agree.

  • @Samester48

    @Samester48

    4 жыл бұрын

    I personally prefer the sovereign out of the two, but they are visually pretty similar

  • @SovsBorg
    @SovsBorg5 жыл бұрын

    Do you know WHY we love this channel?....of all the things we deal with in life .......Yours is JUST PLAIN FUN!!!!!!

  • @amazedsatsuma

    @amazedsatsuma

    5 жыл бұрын

    I tune in for the rocks >.> XD

  • @Set_2_Stun

    @Set_2_Stun

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agree - lots of Trek channels out there, but this one is by far the most fun. *cut to Tuvok laughing*

  • @resurrectedstarships
    @resurrectedstarships5 жыл бұрын

    I also get a lot of rocks when I take a damage.

  • @resurrectedstarships

    @resurrectedstarships

    5 жыл бұрын

    One damage = 1d10 rocks

  • @EDChantry

    @EDChantry

    5 жыл бұрын

    THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE!

  • @casbot71

    @casbot71

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cut down your sodium intake and increase calcium from food. If it reduces your risk of stones forming it should also work on rocks.

  • @denniszuchelkowski4587

    @denniszuchelkowski4587

    5 жыл бұрын

    C Resurrected Starships fbdfgxbgbcbccxzc 😁🏹

  • @stevenp3176

    @stevenp3176

    5 жыл бұрын

    NotQuiteSurprisedAtAll I doubt that’s happening in your mother’s basement.

  • @crunchychips8123
    @crunchychips81235 жыл бұрын

    The Nova class deserved better than to be an under-powered science vessel, it's almost as pretty as the Akira class.

  • @DrewLSsix

    @DrewLSsix

    5 жыл бұрын

    Crunchy Chips eh, it just needs its own area to shine. I’m STILL waiting for the trek show about a small scrappy ship and crew, why does every show need to be about the best new ship and the cream of the fleet crewmen? There was a novel series about a small ship and its crew that would be perfect as a template.

  • @uss_04

    @uss_04

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would have loved to see Alpha Canon of the Akira as a carrier with a through and through fighter deck. Lore Reloaded talked about the ineffectiveness in general of Trek Fighters, but aside for the Games, would be nice to see a carrier.

  • @crunchychips8123

    @crunchychips8123

    5 жыл бұрын

    Drew, that was DS9. A crappy space station in orbit of Planet Shithole. A captain who was a broken man, after his ship, crew, and wife got exploded by the Borg, who went on to start a war and was an accessory to murder. A science officer who got implanted with the memories of an old dude and began gambling with Ferengi and pillaging with Klingons. An engineer who was just some racist guy who was good at killing Cardies and fixing stuff, so they slapped a uniform on him and called him chief. A doctor who was fresh out of the academy and an arse, who later turned out to be Khan Jr. A security officer with zero people skills who could play dirty. An executive officer who was a former terrorist and general bitch. A barman who was a conman and ran a holo-brothel.

  • @casbot71

    @casbot71

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DrewLSsix Or even official Federation ? Firefly or Dark Matter set in the Trek verse. With some secret or crime hanging over them so they can't just run to Starfleet for help if things get rough. An interesting twist, the Mirror universe, so the Federation is something you avoid or it's post Federation collapse. The protagonist can be either native to the universe or just some regular ship from the Prime universe that got sucked in and are stuck and don't know how to get back.

  • @casbot71

    @casbot71

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@crunchychips8123 And a tailor who was also a tinker, a soldier and a spy. Plus a commander who was a absentee single father of a special needs boy he stuck in the Klingon military.

  • @phelous
    @phelous5 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos, ROCK ON! ...sorry.

  • @bigdaddydons6241

    @bigdaddydons6241

    3 жыл бұрын

    Phaelous you keep appearing out of nowhere in so much other stuff I love it. Also I just love your content. Been a fan for a while

  • @HMSL86

    @HMSL86

    3 жыл бұрын

    You meant ROCKS on. Right?

  • @galacticcore0796

    @galacticcore0796

    2 жыл бұрын

    That was… not funny

  • @mattevans4377
    @mattevans43775 жыл бұрын

    The Nova class was also designed to be a replacement for the Oberth class. So, it could have been much much weaker....

  • @pills-

    @pills-

    4 жыл бұрын

    A shuttlepod is probably better armed than an Oberth :D

  • @quangutusuranu

    @quangutusuranu

    3 жыл бұрын

    It looks much stronger than Oberth

  • @Dream0Asylum

    @Dream0Asylum

    3 жыл бұрын

    They forgot to make it out of explodium.

  • @superhayes256
    @superhayes2565 жыл бұрын

    Your humor is my cup of tea. Even though I don’t drink tea. I didn’t make up the expression. Look I’m just sayin I think we could be friends or something.

  • @resurrectedstarships

    @resurrectedstarships

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi frand!!!

  • @derekortiz3663

    @derekortiz3663

    5 жыл бұрын

    Smoooooooth.

  • @superhayes256

    @superhayes256

    5 жыл бұрын

    Derek Ortiz like an androids bottom!

  • @theNewBee
    @theNewBee5 жыл бұрын

    I assumed the "rocks" are actually the pieces of an extruded or molded foam / polymer that skins the consoles.

  • @DrewLSsix

    @DrewLSsix

    5 жыл бұрын

    theNewBee Reviews I like to think its a coating used to absorb heat or radiation. Like the fire proofing used in buildings. Ship gets hit, radiation surges through the hull, and the film reacts to it absorbs that energy by expanding into chunks of harmless debris. You can see just how light they are in many shots.... almost as if they were some kind of foam🤭

  • @GoatZilla

    @GoatZilla

    5 жыл бұрын

    Foam wouldn't look like that unless it was crumbly old Great Stuff.

  • @theNewBee

    @theNewBee

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@GoatZilla Who said Starfleet never goes with the lowest bidding contractor?

  • @dragonknightleader1

    @dragonknightleader1

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DrewLSsix Except it's not harmless. Remember in Yesterday's Enterprise when Garrett and Riker died from exploding debris? Or random crew members that get hurt from exploding consoles?

  • @DLordSadow

    @DLordSadow

    5 жыл бұрын

    It’s burnt cork. When you see things ‘explode’ on set, the debris or ‘rocks’ as we like to refer to them are burning cork.

  • @pepperVenge
    @pepperVenge5 жыл бұрын

    I always couldn't help but notice that the Equinox crew's uniforms should have been TNG style, not Voyager style as they were pulled into the Delta Quadrant during the years when TNG was still taking place.

  • @JunkBallMedia

    @JunkBallMedia

    5 жыл бұрын

    That bugged me too.

  • @TheMysteryDriver

    @TheMysteryDriver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Comparable to a utility jumpsuit, the uniform was first used aboard space stations before eventually coming into service aboard starships in 2371, beginning with the USS Defiant, USS Enterprise-D, USS Voyager, and the USS Equinox. From memory alpha.

  • @varianschirmer9375

    @varianschirmer9375

    2 жыл бұрын

    If Equinox vanished from the Alpha Quadrant during DS9 season 1... that would put it in the Deltra Quadrant over 2 years before Voyager & still have the crew in the DS9/Voyager uniforms.

  • @pepperVenge

    @pepperVenge

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@varianschirmer9375 If that's when they did. But I learned since this comment that Equinox was pulled to the Delta quadrant mere months before Voyager was.

  • @varianschirmer9375

    @varianschirmer9375

    2 жыл бұрын

    So the uniforms are consistent...

  • @JosephPiatt
    @JosephPiatt5 жыл бұрын

    Equinox was one of those few Voyager episodes I really enjoyed. It kind of felt like Voy's (to use a term I recently heard coined) mirror universe episode, showing us what the crew could've been reduced to if they were more willing to cross lines to survive.

  • @harrysmith1700
    @harrysmith17005 жыл бұрын

    I love the Nova class. Such a compact, nifty ship.

  • @My-Name-Isnt-Important
    @My-Name-Isnt-Important5 жыл бұрын

    I've always liked the little ships. Makes a lot of sense having small ships dedicated to a specific role, while the larger vessels are for long range multi-role missions.

  • @tank_0r
    @tank_0r5 жыл бұрын

    NEW JUNKBALL = HAPPY FRIDAY

  • @lieutenant_dan27lt.d45

    @lieutenant_dan27lt.d45

    5 жыл бұрын

    I wish I had enough money to just have him churn these out. In my top 5 fav channels

  • @chrisbritt4266
    @chrisbritt42665 жыл бұрын

    See little Nova class it's actually my favorite Starship thank you for doing a review

  • @alancarnell2747
    @alancarnell27473 жыл бұрын

    Anyone notice that Harry Kim coming to stop Janeway's time travel shenanigans was very similar to the episode where Harry tries to reset time because he made a mistake and destroyed Voyager.

  • @Mr.NiceUK

    @Mr.NiceUK

    6 ай бұрын

    Yep, all the best Kim character developnent never actually happened dye to timeline shenanigans, poor Harry Kim 😢

  • @MinivanMegafun100
    @MinivanMegafun1003 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos because they're both incredibly detailed but also very funny and self-depreciating. Your sense of humor makes these a treat to watch!

  • @amazedsatsuma
    @amazedsatsuma5 жыл бұрын

    I always love the design and the 2 parter...wish they did a follow up with the surviving crew of the Equinox before the series ended, but alas:(

  • @casbot71

    @casbot71

    5 жыл бұрын

    As punishment they were put on repair detail in the lower decks handling waste reclamators and other menial task like cleaning conduits.

  • @JustShoveJayOhBe
    @JustShoveJayOhBe5 жыл бұрын

    Final appearance not worth mentioning? Um excuse me that sphere builder battle and Enterprise J reveal was the whole reason ST ENT went on to have like 4 more seasons and a couple movies made and totally revived he franchise

  • @DrewLSsix

    @DrewLSsix

    5 жыл бұрын

    M Duffy You must be thinking of another outcome of the temporal Cold War, easy mistake, there’s literally an infinite number of them🤷‍♂️

  • @maarkaus48
    @maarkaus483 жыл бұрын

    This is the only channel on youtube that can take something as mundane as, say, a ships floor panelling and make an entire episode out of it, and make it deeply interesting, and hilarious. This might just be the best Star Trek channel out there.

  • @Elkott
    @Elkott5 жыл бұрын

    I really liked this ship design

  • @RaikenXion
    @RaikenXion3 жыл бұрын

    I do like this ship, its got a nice little smart design. The actor who played the captain of the USS Equinox he was in the classic film The Deer Hunter with Rob Ne Niro and Christopher Walken.

  • @cellokid5104
    @cellokid51045 жыл бұрын

    Such a beautiful pretty ship

  • @mathewcurtis9401
    @mathewcurtis94015 жыл бұрын

    I just stumbled upon your videos, but man I gotta say that I love your sense of humor and presentation style! I'll definitely be watching them all and subscribing :)

  • @vulpixgrant
    @vulpixgrant5 жыл бұрын

    I love this little class of ship, especially in refit guise of the Rhode Island. Where the Orberth was basically a three wheeled horse drawn buggy, this at least had a fourth wheel and an engine lol. I always though in my mind this was a very durable tough little ship designed to survive in the less peaceful era of DS9/VOY. Great rundown on the class as usual, not as brutal towards it like you can be in other videos. Kind of glad the Nova managed to remain on the Master's good side ;-)

  • @notkiwibird
    @notkiwibird4 жыл бұрын

    Equinox is probably one of my favorite Star Trek ships. (The nova class I suppose)

  • @kal54321
    @kal543213 жыл бұрын

    The "rock bit" never gets old.

  • @Pulsar047
    @Pulsar0475 жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite class of Starfleet vessel, thanks for doing a video on it.

  • @JC_Chappy
    @JC_Chappy2 жыл бұрын

    My not so guilty pleasure is to rewatch all of Junkball's videos. So damn entertaining... DON'T STOP, JB! Ever!!!!

  • @shaundis2117
    @shaundis21175 жыл бұрын

    that tuvok laugh clip is always my fav part of your vids

  • @VideoSage
    @VideoSage4 жыл бұрын

    Shod have used the footage from the episode instead of the model, that way it could stand as a record of the cg, resolution and texture work.

  • @jk-gt9dv
    @jk-gt9dv5 жыл бұрын

    Wow, another great video. I'm a super fan of ST and you, never knew about Equinox camio w Enterprise J. Great work as always. Fingers crossed on DSCO 2. At least we get new ships to check out.

  • @Scripture-Man

    @Scripture-Man

    5 жыл бұрын

    Stop swearing!

  • @foxpianocovers
    @foxpianocovers5 жыл бұрын

    I like the "no-neck" designs of the 90s! Bring em back!

  • @casbot71
    @casbot715 жыл бұрын

    Slightly off topic, but Ransom was an idiot to get in that situation to begin with, he (and his crew) had other options when they first got stuck in the Delta Quadrant. What would you do if you were Captain Ransom when the Equinox first got sucked through by the Array? Discuss in this thread, and may I suggest a video on this topic, but anyway, on with my rant. He decided to pick a unnecessary fight with an alien amarda with his itty bitty little science vessel right off the bat, wiping out half his crew and trashing his ship, just to take a slight shortcut on a journey of more than a century (the Equinox having a slower speed than Voyager's 70 year estimate), relying on the authority of the Federation they had never heard of to intimidate them. He instead should have nicely asked for the borders of their territory so as to not violate it and requested any information they were willing to share regarding surrounding species. Most paranoid races are willing to bad mouth their neighbors, which gives you a start. Add a cloak to your ship, Starfleet may not use them because of treaty, but they would know how they work and could build a passable one. Also apparently the design schematic and replicator patterns are in the computer, to be unlocked in flight, by Fleet wide order if the Romulan war ever turned hot. A little bit of hacking and their ship is invisible. After all, no one is going to report you for any treaty violations. And if you want to violate Federation regulations and delete your EMH's ethical subroutines, get it to genetically upgrade your crew like Dr Julian Bashir was as a child - Starfleet tech can alter your genes as an adult, and even as a hyper evolved amphibian. What's the smartest thing to do however is keep a low profile and hang around the Array, to see who else comes through, maybe another Federation ship, maybe someone with information about regions on the way back, or who can be allies, so you form your own Federation in the Delta quadrant. And you keep studying the array to see if you can use it to get back, until some pompous goit blows it up, then you convoy with her ship back home. And just maybe you decide to stay on the planet of the 37's, to help them succeed as an interstellar civilisation, because once the neighborhood knows they're there, they are going to be invaded by not nice locals like Kazons or Vidiians. Remember the Equinox crew is all human (although that might just be the survivors by the time they encounter Voyager. I have a theory that subconsciously humans keep aliens in their crews to make the humans behave morally) Full disclaimer: I have daydreamed about what I would do after watching the Equinox episodes and then the 37's episode (I know the order, but still). Give them Federation technology, culture and history and start a Federation there (or a more suitable nearby planet that doesn't have transporter interference from surface conditions and keep this as a safe bolthole), once they have the ability to defend themselves and interstellar travel with a fleet. It would be an interesting alternative timeline if the Equinox found that planet, maybe even by themselves, limping after Voyager's warp trail after having to change course, or because they heard rumors of another Federation ship. Or they found the pickup truck first. They hide their ship in a cavern of one of the cities and start upgrading the technology of the human civilization while remaining hidden from the other local races. And once again, let the EMH make a few improvements to the genome of the human colony, not augments, but more like Julian Bashir with a strength and resilience boost as well as intelligence and coordination that he had. Less severe mods with less chance of screwing up, but an EMH doesn't make human error mistakes, and it's not unfair if everyone gets it. If they wanted to be nasty, they could sucker Kazon ships by surrendering in their own ships (maybe not the Equinox if somebody had told them about transporters) and then beaming the crew off as soon as brought inside their shields (and purging the buffers). Then upgrade the captured Klingon …sorry, Kazon ships with Federation tech and start wandering the neighborhood in disguise, building up quite a armada for the local humans. The local species don't have transporters or replicators (don't tell them about replicator technology when you first offer to trade with…oops 'JANEWAY' !!) which gives them a big advantage. While the Equinox doesn't have a holodeck fitted (or did it just get destroyed? A holodeck is very useful for a science vessel to run experiments and simulations with, and to create specialist labs on the fly, maybe it was to be installed later, on Tuesday) does it have the schematics in its database? So with that tech the civilization can progress fast and with holodecks so can training. Pretty soon on their undesirable planet that no one can scan the surface of they have a thriving civilization that is more advanced than any local power. And then they start expanding carefully and with stealthily reconning first with cloaked (and maybe retrofitted local) ships. And with the advantage that they have all of Federation history in their database so many bugs and issues have been already worked out with ready made solutions from history. And then when they encounter Vidiians they steal their medical tech and make sure (ahem) that the rest of the Vidiians don't know about them (keep them prisoner and let them die of natural causes - the phage, while getting information and advanced medical skills training from them, what did you think I meant?). They then make alliances with the local not evil races and instead of being a lonely ship struggling across a dangerous galaxy, they are the progenitors of a new beacon of light in the Delta quadrant, a beacon that is already wise in the ways of interspecies diplomacy and that also knows to hide when it encounters transwarp signatures or sees geometric ships (having disguised Kazon ships helps, the Borg consider them unworthy, apparently they think they're a cheap Klingon knock off as well). And maybe a beacon of light that is a bit less naive and more pragmatic (and ruthless, after all, Ransom's influence) that the Federation and that uses, reverse engineers and retrofits any advanced alien tech they happen to acquire. So how would you play it if you were suddenly dropped in the Delta quadrant with a Nova class science vessel ? So let this be a lesson for everyone even if you're with the biggest kid back home. If you get kidnapped and dumped in a lawless region on another continent, don't pick a fight with the local gang or warlord if you are by yourself.

  • @DrWhom

    @DrWhom

    5 жыл бұрын

    Captain Ransom. I guess he kinda held his crew to...

  • @Talmurid

    @Talmurid

    5 жыл бұрын

    I never thought of that, The Equinox or Voyager having cloaking technology. Would have made both their journies a lot easier.

  • @Alligator81

    @Alligator81

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well it seemed odd to me that they had those neural gel packs, which look a lot like ice packs at room temperature and in a little IV bag, and no means to replace them. They had to basically replace the brain and nervous system of the whole ship when they started breaking down. Waiting around the array would’ve been helpful. If they could’ve found a way to be them even part of the way home it would’ve shaved years off the trip. Besides, leaving one of those tri-cobalt warheads boobytrapped with some kind of transport inhibitor and sensory package would’ve taken the array and any Kazon scavengers *out* after you’d gotten Voyage home using the array.

  • @glenwaldrop8166

    @glenwaldrop8166

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think the Warp speeds are like the Rictor Scale, 9.1 is twice as fast as 9. If that's the case then the Voyager is tremendously faster than the Equinox.

  • @TheMysteryDriver

    @TheMysteryDriver

    4 жыл бұрын

    Andrew Suttmeier huge energy drain though

  • @mancamiatipoola
    @mancamiatipoola5 жыл бұрын

    HAHA! This was such a good episode! I will never unsee the rocks from explosion scenes now! Tnx for that... i guess.

  • @Sebastian-xh4cc
    @Sebastian-xh4cc5 жыл бұрын

    Dear Mr. Junk, thank you for always managing to crack me up. You, sir, are excellent.

  • @shinigami146
    @shinigami1465 жыл бұрын

    This may be my favorite star ship design. I like the pointy edges and corners. A very sleek look. In the early 2000s, there was a great game (great due to the modding community) called Star Trek: Bridge Commander. A modder created this ship and it was my favorite to use due to it's look. I had no idea that the canon version was so small. I am really enjoying these Junkball videos!

  • @HeadCannon
    @HeadCannon5 жыл бұрын

    Half expected a V'Ger joke at the VOY thing, but good stuff.

  • @TheBertLocker

    @TheBertLocker

    5 жыл бұрын

    Agreed, Vger is the correct abbreviation 😀

  • @arko09
    @arko093 жыл бұрын

    Great review of a fantastic ship class!

  • @youdontneedtoseehisidentif4939
    @youdontneedtoseehisidentif49395 жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the similarity between the episode's aliens and the (first, I think?) aliens encountered in _Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force_ ?

  • @matcrass2442
    @matcrass24425 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos dude Look forward to them!!!!

  • @TPJ300
    @TPJ3005 жыл бұрын

    This is my absolute favorite show. Informative and fun.

  • 5 жыл бұрын

    Whattayou wanna do with yeeeeour life?! I WANT SOME ROOOOOOOOCKS! 🥁🎵🎉🎸

  • @jk-gt9dv

    @jk-gt9dv

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rooooccccckkkks

  • @MatthewCaunsfield
    @MatthewCaunsfield5 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are a joy to watch and always teach me sometime new! :-)

  • @jipillow1
    @jipillow15 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos. Keep em coming

  • @StarTrekMarco
    @StarTrekMarco5 жыл бұрын

    I always read VOY but I've never heard someone say it out loud. The calmness you used saying it made it sound hilarious.

  • @hazajacko
    @hazajacko5 жыл бұрын

    Dude I've only watched a couple of your videos recently but both times you've had me in tears 😂 awesome music and......rockkkksssssss

  • @acmenipponair
    @acmenipponair5 жыл бұрын

    You know, what I like most by your videos? The great use of 80s synthpop hits like Messages from OMD.

  • @Eremon1
    @Eremon15 жыл бұрын

    These ship model history and examination videos are awesome!

  • @uss_04
    @uss_045 жыл бұрын

    I love the Nova/Equinox design. Angular and the the dart shaped and the size of the deflector dish gives it a nice sense of scale.

  • @cernstormrunner7263
    @cernstormrunner72635 жыл бұрын

    This is probably going to sound kind of weird, but I worked in a Halloween City once or twice and your background music was played there

  • @DrWhom

    @DrWhom

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yup. Weird.

  • @NextToToddliness
    @NextToToddliness5 жыл бұрын

    Whenever Magic Fly pops in my head, I think of your channel

  • @LukeRanieri
    @LukeRanieri5 жыл бұрын

    “Using state of the art imaging technology” 😂 i.e. “Cross Dissolve” transition in iMovie. Hahaha. I love your jokes, man! They make me laugh every time. Keep up the great work!

  • @sidoney101
    @sidoney1013 жыл бұрын

    I love the design of the Equinox. A beefed up combat version would have been cool.

  • @Scripture-Man
    @Scripture-Man5 жыл бұрын

    "Voy" LOL! I adore your sense of humour. You're the perfect guy to be making these videos. Not only are you an expert on the subjectmatter, but your videos are just really great fun. You could probably make videos about anything and it would still be fun! :)

  • @ussakira7294
    @ussakira72945 жыл бұрын

    The Equinox is a great little Starship

  • @DadaPoopoo

    @DadaPoopoo

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're a great little starship.

  • @ussakira7294

    @ussakira7294

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@DadaPoopoo Thanks

  • @TPJ300

    @TPJ300

    5 жыл бұрын

    Little?

  • @Scripture-Man

    @Scripture-Man

    5 жыл бұрын

    Tough little ship.

  • @ussakira7294

    @ussakira7294

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Scripture-Man Yeh it is

  • @TedofBrowns
    @TedofBrowns5 жыл бұрын

    Another great review! Keep up the great work!

  • @schmodedo
    @schmodedo4 жыл бұрын

    Every episode I watch I'll never be able to un-see the ROCKS, ROCKS, ROCKS now !

  • @TheGreenarrow88
    @TheGreenarrow885 жыл бұрын

    Finally, been waiting for this one.

  • @patricku9
    @patricku95 жыл бұрын

    One of the few (only) star trek channels that entertains instead of bores to death.

  • @JunkBallMedia

    @JunkBallMedia

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. I’m a distant 4th or 5th for Trek channels but I’m still honored anyone watches these at all.

  • @charlesscott1682
    @charlesscott16825 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos. Keep em coming.

  • @Steve-hd6qk
    @Steve-hd6qk5 жыл бұрын

    I love your puns and whimsy clips added on right after, theyre refreshing! Liked and subbed 70 light years ago ;)

  • @JunkBallMedia

    @JunkBallMedia

    5 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate it. Thanks, dude.

  • @grantwatson27yearsago14
    @grantwatson27yearsago145 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos. Fun and informative. Great content.

  • @bifocalprime
    @bifocalprime5 жыл бұрын

    Your vídeos introduced me to the spacesynth music you put in your videos, and now it’s my favorite music genre!

  • @JunkBallMedia

    @JunkBallMedia

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that whole genre is a treasure trove of synthy goodness.

  • @adamekilt4193
    @adamekilt41934 жыл бұрын

    Great docco! And kudos to Rick and others for a timeless design.

  • @randomgotham
    @randomgotham5 жыл бұрын

    Another great video!

  • @nuckymcnuck
    @nuckymcnuck5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for including the details of the music you use. I've been wondering what Hot Ice was for a long time

  • @dougc3512
    @dougc35125 жыл бұрын

    Love your channel!

  • @davidmarsh6656
    @davidmarsh66563 жыл бұрын

    Love the humour in these videos.

  • @wazda6488
    @wazda64884 жыл бұрын

    This was my 3rd ship in Star Trek online because it was pretty neat

  • @creativelyrandomproduction6719
    @creativelyrandomproduction67195 жыл бұрын

    Love this channel.

  • @dominusetdeus060644
    @dominusetdeus0606444 жыл бұрын

    You're my favorite star trek channel

  • @762rk95tp
    @762rk95tp5 жыл бұрын

    The design concept that ended up being Nova-class was so much better design than the Defiant. Unlike the Defiant, it actually looks like a starfleet ship design. Great video as usual.

  • @danielb9545
    @danielb95453 жыл бұрын

    Loved your video

  • @quazz79
    @quazz795 жыл бұрын

    I like this guy, but you already knew that

  • @davidmarsh7696
    @davidmarsh76962 жыл бұрын

    I love the humour in these videos.

  • @dispiedark8682
    @dispiedark86825 жыл бұрын

    I think there models of all these ships in star trek online. I love this look i never really got the circle shape.

  • @Vincent-396
    @Vincent-3965 жыл бұрын

    Your star trek videos are genius! Keep up the great work.

  • @JunkBallMedia

    @JunkBallMedia

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. I appreciate it.

  • @ascherlafayette8572
    @ascherlafayette85724 жыл бұрын

    Everybody: I got steel beams Star Trek: I got a rock

  • @Doublebarreledsimian
    @Doublebarreledsimian4 жыл бұрын

    One other thing about the Refit Nova Captained by Harry Kim. It was now capable of long term deep space missions, as Naomi's kid asked him where he has been during a Voyager reunion party, and he tells her he has been away for 4 years.

  • @Zerondaes
    @Zerondaes4 жыл бұрын

    Smashed that like button for that closing scene ahahha

  • @fatbeard8072
    @fatbeard80724 жыл бұрын

    Ok, great vid, I knew all of that info except for the appearance on ST: Enterprise, holy cow. It is one of my top favorite class of Federation ships due to it being versatile.

  • @joshuacalkins
    @joshuacalkins5 жыл бұрын

    “VOY” is written on the side of many a VHS box, along with TOS, TNG, DS9, and ENT... but of course that is for visual simplicity, not some hip linguistic abbreviation fetish. You don’t even save a syllable calling Deep Space Nine “DS9”, and “Next Gen” is better than saying “TNG.” Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall that in the index-less DS9 manual they finally clarified that the bridge was situated in the nose, above the deflector. That would make the otherwise correctly labeled “bridge module” something different on the Defiant class ships. I may be remembering it all backwards, and the manual showed a detachable nose with a warhead...and no bridge. Anyway, thanks for another great video!

  • @dimensionlordgambitmccoy9727
    @dimensionlordgambitmccoy97275 жыл бұрын

    Well that "Infinity Stone" comes standard, if only they could have used it. Lol

  • @Relugus

    @Relugus

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's the Space Stone as well. They could have used it to teleport out of the Delta Quadrant.

  • @SandsOfArrakis
    @SandsOfArrakis4 жыл бұрын

    Flew this ship for a long time back when playing Star Trek Online. One of my favourites :)

  • @spinnerkeys
    @spinnerkeys5 жыл бұрын

    Great job!

  • @telstarradio7974
    @telstarradio79745 жыл бұрын

    Best Trek videos on the tube.

  • @howardrash2446
    @howardrash2446 Жыл бұрын

    I read somewhere Those circle things down the spine are like heat storage units to be used when the ship is cloaked so as not to give away their general position.

  • @timborkowski7040
    @timborkowski70402 жыл бұрын

    love your channel! there used to me more videos, not sure wheat happened. can you re-upload them?? specifically the ones about TMP where you made the "Clearly" joke.

  • @jt4369
    @jt43694 жыл бұрын

    I like how the ship seems to “fall” and twirl irregularly even though it’s in outer space.

  • @thechief4114

    @thechief4114

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol! Star trek ships always seem to be on the same "plane" even when approaching other ships they always come in on exactly the same Z level, pitch and angle regardless of their position in space. You never see an "upside down" decloaking Romulan ship

  • @stevenserna910

    @stevenserna910

    9 ай бұрын

    True, in order to pitch and yaw in space you use vector'd thrust. Apollo 13 proved that actual space ships keep going in one direction no matter what direction the "bow" of the ship happens to be pointed in, unless some greater thrust is opposingly applied. An uncontrolled ship would just fall into a planets gravity in one direction and not start to pitch or roll untilp it reaches the planets atmosphere.

  • @vulcan4d
    @vulcan4d5 жыл бұрын

    My favorite Star Trek ship. Bring back good Star Trek!

  • @xxjackxofxheartsxx
    @xxjackxofxheartsxx5 жыл бұрын

    LOVE THIS!!!

  • @chrishatherley3531
    @chrishatherley35312 жыл бұрын

    Honestly dude your jokes and comical side references are soooo bad but i bloody love that they are!! I was in stitches watching some of this!

  • @BroughPerkinsMedium
    @BroughPerkinsMedium5 жыл бұрын

    You got a cute voice boyo and funny witty delivery, good humor that isn't corny. I really like what you're doing here kiddo.