These seems to be all the "hard" evedince that seven did not imagine, the remain unsolved however.
Any guesses?
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1) Is it imaginable that it wasn't, in fact, a tractor beam? Instead, just something that happened to look like one.
Or maybe Ransom and Equinox had obtained a cheap cloak and were hanging around. It could have been them trying to get a way home. Would you leave the perfectly intact array without at least trying to find your way home? Which of course brings up the question of why Equinox wasn't sent home...
Or it could have been anyone else with a cloak looking for a quick score. No telling.
2) To blow the freakin' array up. Simple as that. Maybe he figured on taking the Kazon with it?
3) Cardie space, presumably. I guess the Caretaker abducted it, and then sent it home. Perhaps it blew up on the return journey? That wave thingy was kinda rough on ships.
4) Could have been anywhere. Perhaps it was part of the lost alien's ship, and he was re-engineering it.
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Yah, they really never did answer any of those. Just kind of left it hanging. Seven's messed up, but we'll just ignore the rest of it.
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Where does the Cardassian Galor came from, and why was it returned so swiftly?
I was under the impression that this was Gul Evek's ship, the one that was chasing Chakotay's raider. I could have sworn that was what Seven said.
Anyway, until this episode came along and screwed everything up, wasn't the Caretaker's modus operandi being to steal ships from all over the galaxy and infect the crews with a virus, but having no intention of returning the ships or the crews to where he found them? Isn't that why the Dreadnought was still around in the Delta Quadrant, not to mention the Equinox? (although that's already been mentioned) My impression of the Caretaker was that he was interested solely in the Ocampa's welfare before he died. Returning the stolen ships would have been the last thing on his mind.
BTW, was there an actual line of dialogue in "Equinox" stating that the ship was brought to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker? I vaguely recall Ransom talking about a wormhole, but I don't remember any reference to the Caretaker.
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And Equinox WAS brought by the Caretaker. They were quite clear on that.
I'm not sure where I got the idea, but I could swear that the Caretaker was, in fact, sending the ships he abducted back from whence they came. Voyager was the exception, 'cause he was dying and didn't have time. Dreadnaught wasn't alive, so why bother?
Maybe Ransom didn't ask to be sent home? It's possible that you actually have to request it, or something. He could have been wary of beaming aboard the array. Or maybe it screwed up, and dumped them around where Voyager found them. It would explain how they got so far, and why they never saw the Kazon.
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Apparently, when the Caretaker took a ship, he infected all of the crew and returned those who did not get a fatal disease. Ransom probably got swept to Delta, his crew infected, and then returned, with a man or two missing. In which situation he ran like hell, unless his ship was too badly damaged. Only those who loitered near the array afterwards would have been sent back, really.
That was thus just a judgement call by Ransom. Janeway was thickheaded enough not to run away at once, so she found out the Caretaker did not further harm his victims. Thus, she learned there was a theoretical chance of getting a ride home, either by asking nicely or by forcing the Caretaker. Ransom would not have considered *either* of these a possibility, given how his ship had been vastly overwhelmed by somebody obviously malevolent.
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This implies to me that some of the ships stuck around in that area long enough to talk to people. IMHO, there should have been a lot more to this in the first season. Running into others who had been brought, finding wrecks etc.
It makes total sense that it was Evek's ship that was brought though I tend to think they would have found the ship if it had remained there. It would have been brought there about the same time as Chakotay's ship after all.
And yes, Evek was in "Tribunal" DS9. Maybe other eps too, but that's the one I remember. mr. "Reliable Sources".
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Wasn't that debris field that Neelix was found in a result of ships that had been pulled by the Caretaker from around the Galaxy...
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There are alot of reasons why the Equinox didn't get sent back. Another (more powerful and extremely angry) alien ship could have been brought in at the same time and, unable to harm the Caretaker, decided to vent its anger at the smaller ship. The ship could have chassed the Equinox way of course before they finally were able to head home. It is also possible that Ransom attacked the array, and the Caretaker responded by flinging the Equinox away in a random direction.
Whatever the reason, I believe that it is safe to assume that the Equinox was forced to take a much different path back.
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Oh, really like the idea about the Equinox kidnapping the Caretakers reactor!
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As for the Equinox, I'm of the opinion that after the Caretaker was done with them, Banjoman was either too busy to send them back, or by that point he may have been too weak. He was pretty close to dying by that point, and was getting pretty desperate to find himself a replacement. He may have been sweeping that region of the Alpha quadrant, found and tested the Cardassians, sent them back, found the Equinox, and let them go (or chased them away) so he could continue his work.
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