Voyager is attacked by the aliens, and as Janeway plots to recapture Captain Ransom and his crew, the Equinox is equally determined to escape with the Doctor and Seven of Nine as hostages.

Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway)
Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay)
Roxann Dawson (Lt. B'Elanna Torres)
Robert Duncan McNeill (Ensign Tom Paris)
Robert Picardo (The Doctor)
Ethan Phillips (Neelix)
Tim Russ (Lt. Commander Tuvok)
Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine)
Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim)

John Savage (Captain Rudolph Ransom)
Titus Welliver (Lt. Maxwell Burke)
Olivia Birkelund (Ensign Marla Gilmore)
Rick Worthy (Ensign Noah Lessing)
Eric Steinberg (Ankari)
Steve Dennis (Thompson)
Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

• Season 6 Premiere.
  
• Five members of the Equinox crew join Voyager after the Equinox is destroyed: Noah Lessing, Marla Gilmore, James Morrow, Brian Sofin, and Angelo Tossoni. Janeway strips them of their Starfleet rank, reducing them to crewmen. Captain Ranson and Lt. Burke are killed.