| "Hunters" | |||
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| Star Trek: Voyager episode | |||
A Hirogen hunter threatens Seven |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 15 |
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| Directed by | David Livingston | ||
| Written by | Jeri Taylor | ||
| Production code | 183 | ||
| Original air date | February 11, 1998 | ||
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Tiny Ron as Alpha Hirogen |
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"Hunters" is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 15th episode of the fourth season. The episode has an average rating of 4.5/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of May 12, 2007).[1]
Starfleet, having recently learned that Voyager is far away in the Delta Quadrant, begins sending messages to the crew. The data is being forwarded to the ship via powerful Hirogen transmission arrays, which are run on the energy of micro-singularities (miniature black holes). The crew is excited to receive letters from home, but frustrated when the Hirogen demand they stop using the communications array. Janeway defies the Hirogen as many more letters from home are still in its database.
Letters continue to be downloaded, spreading good and bad news alike. Tuvok learns there is another addition to his family, while Janeway learns her fiance has married another woman. Chakotay and Torres learn that a large majority of their Maquis friends have been imprisoned or killed. Tom Paris, facing the possibility of a difficult letter from home, realizes his own problems pale in relation to Torres' news. An attempt to retrieve more of the data sends Tuvok and Seven to the array; however, they are soon captured by the Hirogen.
Many of the 'lower decks' crew are shown by name and face as 'postmaster' Neelix delivers the letters around the ship, and Ensign Harry Kim spends much of the episode wondering if he will get a letter at all, due to data loss. Tuvok and Seven undergo questioning and torture by the Hirogen, and the Voyager crew attempt to devise a way to rescue their comrades.
By the end of the episode, Tuvok and Seven are rescued, but the link home is destroyed.
This episode began a 4 episode arc of the Voyager crew dealing with the Hirogen.[2] While this episode and Prey were 'stand-alone' episodes in their own right, when included with the 2-part episode The Killing Game, the Star Trek franchise ventured into a story-arc genre that was also seen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Enterprise. The "arc" was interrupted between Prey and The Killing Game by the episode Retrospect. The death of the Maquis and B'Elanna Torres' reaction to her Maquis comrades' is developed even further during season 5 episode Extreme Risk. The CGI effect used during the opening scene was also used in the opening segments of the season 2 episode Deadlock.[2]
As of December 2008: tv.com rated this episode as great: episode score: 8.8, show score: 8.4[3]
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