American actor, born in 1949 and known for The Deer Hunter and Hair, who played Captain Rudolph Ransom of the USS Equinox in the two-part Voyager story Equinox.
John Savage is an American actor, born in 1949, whose best-known films are The Deer Hunter, Hair, The Onion Field and Salvador.
In Star Trek: Voyager he guest stars in Equinox, the two-part story that closed the fifth season and opened the sixth in 1999. He plays Captain Rudolph Ransom, a scientist turned commander whose small Nova-class ship, the USS Equinox, was also carried to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. To get his surviving crew home he has been killing nucleogenic lifeforms and using their remains as fuel.
Ransom serves as a dark mirror for Janeway, whose pursuit of him becomes ruthless, and he finally sacrifices himself to save Voyager.