10 Greatest Unspoken Star Trek Plot Points

One of the most interesting episodes of Voyager was Equinox, where the crew encountered another Starfleet vessel, the USS Equinox, that was pulled to the Delta Quadrant by the caretaker just as they were.

The Equinox was a much smaller ship than Voyager and thus suffered more from starvation and fatigue on their journey back to Earth. In order to survive, they decided to capture and drain alien lifeforms for power, causing Janeway to step in and correct things. In the ensuing battle, the Equinox was destroyed along with its Captain, Captain Ransom, and most of the rest of the Equinox crew transported to Voyager to integrate into its crew.

It would have been fascinating to see this hardened, traumatized crew integrate into life on Voyager after years of struggling to survive. Sadly, after this episode we don't get any sort of follow-up on any of the Equinox crew and we're just left to assume that they integrated perfectly. This is unfortunate because their struggle to adapt to normal life and their shame for exploiting the aliens could have been an interesting theme to drive some drama on the ship, but all of this seems to happen off-camera.