Rudolph Ransom

Rudolph ("Rudy") Ransom was the Human Starfleet officer commanding the USS Equinox who was found to have violated the Federation's Prime Directive during his starship's journey through the Delta Quadrant.

Early Life
Ransom was an exobiologist who gained acclaim by making first contact with the Yridians, a species the Federation previously thought were extinct. He was promoted to a captaincy after this achievement.

In combat situations, Ransom tended to use stealth tactics, avoiding contact and waiting out his enemies. While on patrols and surveys, he was successful in avoiding combat with hostile starships on two occasions by using similar tactics. In 2367, Ransom hid in a nebula near planet Epsilon IV from a Klingon bird-of-prey for three days until the Klingons ceased searching for him. He repeated this in 2369, when he hid in the atmosphere of a gas giant until a pursuing Romulan starship gave up looking for him.