code:This is from the script for "The Maquis, Part I," during the generic expositional dialogue for the Badlands. I haven't seen this episode in close to eight years, so I can't recall for certain. But this would seem to support the suggestion that the Equinox and the Cardassian ship were indeed both in the vicinity of the Badlands when they were taken by the Caretaker.SISKO
A couple of ships have been lost
there over the past year or two...