ST:TNG Season Three, Episode Eleven "The Hunted"

ST:TNG Season Three, Episode Eleven "The Hunted"
Production Order: 11
Air Order: 11
Stardate: 43489.2
Original Air Date: January 8, 1990

Picard's Log 43489.2: "We're at Angosia III. These people want to join our space gang the Federation, so we're here to check them out. Nayrok is the Prime Minister here, and he's gonna show myself and Riker around the capital city."

Nayrok (who is the tallest man ever) is walking Picard and Riker through some sort of common area, tooting his own horn, as one does when petitioning to be jumped into a prestigious space gang. When Riker brings up some war they recently recovered from (the Tarsian war), Nayrok goes on about how his people prefer logic and settling things simply and without violence, and isn't it a shame that not everyone thinks like that?
Some dude interrupts them with important news for Nayrok, and they duck to the side to talk, giving us an extra good look at their clothes. This is one of those planets where Star Trek likes to clothe the citizens in "three-piece jumpsuits," coverall things that are tailored and made with suiting material so they look like they're wearing suits. They even have back pants pockets, and Nayrok is wearing wingtips.
I really have no idea what to make of these. They tend to be on important guys, like successful businessmen or diplomats, probably as a signal to the audience that here is a VIP, but it's funny how something quintessentially twentieth-century Terran ended up on aliens four centuries later.

Anyway, while Nayrok is chatting with the other Angosian, Picard tells Riker that he thinks these people will probably work well within the Federation. Riker replies back that Angosia is "a bit stuffy" for him, but he doesn't necessarily disagree with Picard.
Nayrok comes back and gives them quite a bit of information on this "private" matter: They have a penal colony on one of their moons, Lunar V, and one of the prisoners has escaped. Two guards are dead.
Riker asks if they're going to chase him down, and Nayrok sort of shrugs, replying that the tracking station has been sabotaged, is "in chaos," and that their civilian pilots are not trained to handle this kind of situation.
He's definitely leading them into offering help. His explanations have the same sort of tone that your least-reliable friend uses when contacting you out of the blue to tell you what kind of dire straits he's in, and how he has all these mounting bills, and he really just has no one else to talk to about this, and fifty bucks would really solve a lot of his problems...

Riker takes the bait. With Picard's permission, he calls Data. "Hey, do you have a stolen freighter on scanners from Lunar V?"
Worf nods.
"Armed and incredibly dangerous," relays Riker from Nayrok. "High-security facility escapee."
(The unreliable friend mentions that the fifty bucks you'll never see again is actually to pay off his dealer.)
We segue over to the bridge of the E, where Data is in charge, and he and Worf are leading the hunt. Worf reports that the stolen freighter has no warp, and their weapons are pretty much slingshots.

There's a cool shot here where we see the E from a distance while the freighter disappears behind an asteroid or something. Geordi reports that the freighter is picking up speed, probably because the convict on board realizes that he's been spotted.

They wait for the freighter to reappear on the other side, but just the drive section shows up. Worf scans it and says there are no life readings. Data has Wes steer the E around the back side of the asteroid to check it out.
"Wreckage on the asteroid's surface," announces Geordi. "No life signs."
As they move around the other side of the asteroid, Wes realizes that the drive section is now gone. Someone must be driving it.
Riker checks in.
"We lost him," says Data.
"Seriously?" asks Riker.

Dramatic music, even though this is not their problem! Opening credits break!

Back on the bridge, Data is explaining to Picard how the prisoner got away.
 "There were no life signs in the drive section. Dunno how he did that, but we don't have another explanation for it."
Nayrok calls to say they've figured out which prisoner he was - Roga Danar (Rohguh Daynar).
"His criminal record is too lengthy to get into -"

" - but he's super dangerous. Be careful."

Still not their problem, Nayrok, but okay.

He signs off, and the bridge crew discusses how the drive section has taken off completely, but there's no way it should be out of sensor range at this point, because the drive section has no warp capabilities.

"Cloak?" asks Picard.

Worf shakes his head. "The Angosians don't have cloaking tech."

"What if he's hiding in the magnetic pole?" suggests Riker.

Helllooo, callback!

Between Data, Wes and Geordi, they manage to not only find the drive section hiding out above the planet's northern pole, but tractor it in. But then dude turns on his engines and decides to play chicken, rushing at the E.

"The fuck?" asks Picard.

The drive section bounces off the E's shields and heads in a different direction.

While everyone is marveling at how clever this guy is, Data calls attention to the fact that he is no longer in the drive section... by pulling up viewscreen views showing a tiny escape pod.
"Oh, my fucking fuck," says Wes.
"Screw this," says Picard. He calls O'Brien. "Don't know why he has no life signs, but beam up anything from that pod that's big enough to be a humanoid adult."
Worf sends a contingent of security Golds to the transporter room while O'Brien calls back.
"Okay, I'm holding this guy in stasis until the Golds get here. He has a weapon that the transporter has rendered inoperable."
Wait, they can do that?
Riker and Worf head for the transporter room, and the security Golds feel pretty good about just letting O'Brien complete the transfer.
Dude materializes and looks around.

One of the Golds starts to say that Danar should just come quietly or whatever, but Danar tries to shoot them instead.
Oops, his gun isn't working. They attempt to stun him, but it just kind of bounces off.
No gun? No problem. Danar jumps the two Golds while O'Brien yells for more Golds over the comm. Then he jumps into the fray. Danar manages to take down O'Brien while the Golds tumble out into the corridor with Danar. O'Brien wakes up enough to try his phaser, but Danar has taken out one Gold, and now uses his phaser to stun O'Brien.
The lift opens, revealing Riker and Worf at one end of the corridor, and Danar wrestling with that second Gold at the other end. Danar shoots into the lift, but our boys duck. Then they come flying out and wrestle Danar to the ground.
"Set phasers to max stun, and let's get him into the brig!" Riker yells to Worf.
Just so that we know O'Brien is fine, he stumbles into the corridor and asks, "Commander?"

Dramatic music! Commercial break!

Picard calls Nayrok to say that they finally caught him, and Nayrok tells them that it'll take a few hours to get the station back into order. They'll send a ship to come pick him up when they're ready, but in the meantime, the detention center psychologist recommends that they knock Danar's ass all the way out.
"We're good," says Picard.
"Don't say I didn't warn you," shrugs Nayrok.
Riker asks Data if he's figured out what's wrong with the sensors, and Data says they're actually fine.
"Dude has no life signs."
Riker makes a WTF face, and asks Majel who is in the detention cell.
"Nobody," replies Majel. "It's empty."
"Android?" suggests Picard.
"No, Majel can sense artificial life forms," answers Data.
Ooh, is Danar a g-g-g-ghoooost?
Naw, he can just fool the sensors or something.

 Danar is asleep in the brig, obviously having a shitty dream, because he's thrashing and yelling. Troi is walking through the corridor in a different part of the ship when she senses Danar's discomfort. She goes running into the brig to ask if he's okay.
He sits up and asks where he is, expecting her to say "a war ship." She explains that they were orbiting Angosia when he escaped from Lunar V, and that she's the ship's counselor.
"Too bad. I'd rather you were the jailer." He says this in an off-hand way, like she's easy to talk to, rather than she's hot or something. "I assume we're going back to Lunar V?"
"That terrifies you," she reads.
"Dude, I just killed two guys to get out of there. Just my crappy luck that you happened to be in orbit." He scoops water out of the brig basin. "I could kill you too, you know." It's a weird threat, not like he's going to do it, just that he could. Like "I can tie my shoelaces, you know."
"That's a terrifying thought, isn't it? Even to me." Still really offhand.
This was not what Troi was expecting. She asks if his jailers abuse him.
"Naw, they take good care of us. It's just that's a bit of a Hotel California thing: we can check anytime we like, but we can never leave." He washes his face, then sits on the bed. "So do you visit all the prisoners, or am I just a special case, like a cool bug who has landed on your microscope?"
"How come you're so angry towards me?" she asked.
"A girl with long, dark hair broke my heart once, and I turned to a life of crime." Then he laughs, because he's bullshitting her. "How about "my mother abandoned me as a little boy, and I never got the guidance I needed"?"
She's annoyed. "WTF, dude?"
"I'm playing games. Isn't that what all you mind-control types do?"
She's pissed. "I don't practice mind control. I came here because I sensed you were in pain."
"What do you sense now?"
"No more pain," she says quietly.
"Interesting."

Troi goes to the ready room to see Picard about Danar.
"This dude is weird," she says. "Like, he feels like two guys in one. His crimes disturb him, and he doesn't have a violent personality. Seems off to me that he would be so violent."
"He took down five guys and destroyed the transporter room," Picard points out.
"I'm not saying let him roam the ship," she replies. "I'm saying there's something strange about this guy. I'm not getting a criminal vibe off of him."
"Not our problem. We're giving him back soon, and I'll be glad to see the last of him."
"Alrighty then," she says resignedly.

We follow her out of the ready room, where she goes up to Data at the science station and asks if they're linked up to the Angosian database. He replies they are, because they're gathering info about the Angosians for their Federation application.
"Cool, can I see Roga Danar's criminal record?"
Nothing comes up.
"But he's prison," she protests.
"Lunar V is a military prison," Data provides.
"He's a soldier? See why he was arrested."
Nada.
"Looks like he did several successful campaigns in the Tarsian war, and was promoted a few times," says Data. "His record looks honorable."
Troi is confused. "Why the fuck is this guy in prison?"

Troi decides to go straight to the horse's mouth.
"You're a soldier," she says to Danar. "Why are you in prison? Do you do something you weren't supposed to do?"
"Nope," he answers. "I did everything I was asked to do. It was war. I did some terrible shit."
"It started with the war?"
"No, it started the day I joined up. Actually, it started the day I met my first trainer. He was also called counselor."

Dramatic music because counselors are apparently scary! Commercial break!

Troi calls everyone together in the Obs Lounge to give them some exposition. What she's learned is that Danar signed up for the military to fight for the Angosian way of life, against the Tarsians. Instead of just doing drill, the government psychologically manipulated their new recruits and altered their molecular structure to make them better, faster soldiers. They made them the perfect killing machines, but when they won the war and came home, they had trouble acclimatizing. They're perfectly lovely and non-violent when not threatened, but when they did feel threatened, their training would kick in, and bam! argument becomes murder.
Did they try to rehabilitate the soldiers?
Nope. They were just assigned to Lunar V.
"Well, fuck," says Picard.

Data goes to see Danar. Danar dismisses him at first, but then decides he'd rather have someone to talk to.
"Why are your eyes yellow?" Danar demands.
"I'm an android," says Data. "I think we have something in common. We've both been programmed."
"Not the same at all," contradicts Danar scornfully.
"Um, so I can be deprogrammed," says Data. "Is not a thing you can do? Can your doctors not fix this?"
"Doctors did this to me," Danar replies. "And I keep asking myself why they haven't fixed me if I can."

Picard calls Nayrok to confront him about his keeping soldiers locked away on the moon.
"Danar is full of shit. He's a criminal, don't believe him."
Picard decides to press the matter. "Did the soldiers on Lunar V choose to move there on their own?"
"The people voted for them to be relocated there," replies Nayrok, which is not a fucking answer. "Also, they love it there."

Picard is not buying it, probably because a ton of aliens over the years have fed him the same kinds of lines. "Yeah, a comfy prison is still a prison."

"We only had to add security because of people like Danar," Nayrok protests.

"Okay, whatever," Picard waves away. "Our doctors looked at him, and they think the process could be reversed. Have you tried?"

"We've looked at it," shrugs Nayrok. "But you're now treading very close to matters of internal security, so MYOB. Anyway, we're sending a ship to fetch Danar. Formal gratitude to the Federation on behalf of the Angosians and all that." And he promptly hangs up on Picard.

Dude.

You want to get into the Federation, and the guy holding your application has just caught you doing something shady, so you sweep it under the rug and tell him it's none of his business? Smooth move, Ex-Lax.

Picard rolls his eyes and mutters that "matters of internal security" is "the age-old cry of the oppressor."

 Down in the brig, Danar asks Data if he was programmed for war. Data replies that he was not, but has been programmed for military tactics, which is how he was able to capture Danar. The Angosian is impressed.

Unfortunately, he spells out exactly what his "awesome" new abilities have gotten him: "My improved reflexes have allowed me to kill 84 times, and my improved memory lets me remember each of those 84 faces."

Dude. 

That's fucked up.

"Do you understand how that feels?"

"I am incapable of feelings."

"I envy you."

Troi comes in and introduces Picard.

"I have to turn you over to the Angosian authorities," Picard tells Danar. "I don't have a choice in the matter."

"They're right," shrugs Danar. "I'm dangerous and shouldn't be around other people."

Both Troi and Data flatly state that they don't find this to be the case.

"Look," says Picard, "I trust my officers' opinions. If there's a way I can fix this at all, I will."

"I appreciate you telling me that to my face," Danar replies. "In return, I'll warn you that I'm going to try to escape."

Worf calls to say the ship is here for Danar.

Picard says that's fine, and takes Data back to the bridge with him.

Danar calls out to Data to take care of himself, as he enjoyed their chat. Data nods and says he did as well.

Once they're gone, Troi offers Damar the hope that after Angosia has joined the Federation, maybe they can talk the Angosian government into letting the Federation doctors help them rehabilitate their soldiers.

"Doesn't matter," says Danar. "I won't be there. I'd rather die than return to the lunar colony."

The little transport ship arrives and they call Picard on the bridge. The security in place:
- They're going to be beaming Danar directly from one brig to the other;
- A full security detail will be placed in the Enterprise's brig;
- There will be a .1 second time difference between when they beam Danar out of the E's brig and into the transport ship's brig. Worf is pretty certain that Danar will not have enough time to try anything.
Worf goes down t the brig with Troi. Danar prepares to be beamed away, but at the last moment, he starts stretching his arms out, as though he's trapped in the transporter beam. Troi screams out that Danar will hurt or kill himself doing this, but Danar persists.
"I'm losing him!" yells O'Brien over the comm.
Danar gives one last push, there's an explosion, and Troi and Worf are thrown back across the room. When they get up, Danar is gone.

Dramatic music! Commercial break!

Up on the bridge, Picard and Riker are calling orders to deal with Danar's escape. Worf points out that a phaser is missing, and he and a contingent of security Golds take off. They set the ship on general quarters so Danar can't take a hostage, and set security containments on decks near the brig.

Danar strides through the corridors with purpose, and rounding a corner, is caught off guard by a security Gold, who does not see him. Instead, he ducks into a lift.
On the bridge, Data reports that a lift on deck 34 is being used.
"He took the bait," says Riker.
They have Data divert the lift to a destination near where Worf is currently. Worf is alerted, and he and another Gold get into position near the lift. But when the doors open, no Danar. Just a phaser on the floor.
Ah, the old "Phaser on Overload" trick.
Worf manages to turn the thing off before it explodes.
Danar, who never left deck 36, now comes up on the security Gold and knocks him out. Then he uses the Gold's hand to hit his comm badge and request that the forcefield be dropped, which makes me think that comm badges have some kind of fingerprint identification to operate, or else he doesn't want his fingerprints on the unconscious Gold (though it's possible he doesn't actually have any - leave it to the Angosians to get rid of ID like that as well).

He takes off down the corridor.
"He dropped the forcefield on 36," reports Data.
They decide that he's going to Engineering, and call Geordi to warn him, but...

Data says that Danar has a panel open and is trying to bypass security measures. He then begins  quietly rerouting Danar so that he doesn't know.
 But Danar is too quick, and manages to restore power to shuttle bay 2. Data does some dancing on the conn, and now shuttle bay 2 is inoperative again.
Danar leaves Engineering by Jeffries tubes, now holding two more phasers.

Worf and his Golds finally make it down to Engineering, where they help the engineering Golds up, and get more data from Data.
"We think he's going to shuttle bay 2, but we have a number of Golds already waiting for him," Worf tells Geordi.
Sassy Geordi Moment: "You want my advice? Double it!"

Danar puts another overloading phaser into a panel in a Jeffries' tube, then doubles back and opens another panel elsewhere.
"I think he's faking us out," Data tells Picard. "He knows we can't track him, but he's leaving a trail for us to follow. Misdirection was his thing before. Good chance he's doing it now. I don't think he's going to shuttle bay 2. Oh, hey. He's by the cargo bays."
"Cool," says Picard. "Lets empty those cargo bays of anyone else, and flood them with knock-out gas."
When he's pretty sure that Danar is asleep, he has Data clear the cargo bays, and sends Worf & Co in to get him.
Worf takes a look around. "I don't see him," he relays back to Picard. "But a pressure suit is missing. He might be trying to get into the shuttle bay from outside the ship. Or the torpedo tube. We can prep for either."
"Good job," says Picard.
The golds leave, and Danar sneaks out from between cargo containers, sans pressure suit.
Suddenly, Worf jumps out. "Freeze, motherfucker!"

Worf comms the bridge to say that he has Danar, but then that overloading phaser goes off in the Jeffries tube, knocking out power to a bunch of the ship. Danar jumps Worf in the dark. They struggle, knocking over many empty futuristic storage containers. Danar finally succeeds in trapping Worf under a thing that's painted styrofoam but which we're made to believe is super heavy. Danar grabs his phaser, hops on the cargo transporter pad, and transfers over to the prison ship that's been sent to pick him up.
"Surprise, assholes!"

Worf pushes that painted foam thing off of himself, then calls the bridge. "Danar escaped. He used a phaser to power the transporter in the cargo bay."
"Can we confirm that?" Picard asks Data.
"Hell no," replies the android. "Danar fucked up all the shit before he left. I got no sensors."

Dramatic music! Zoom in on Picard! Commercial break!

Riker's Log, supplemental: "Still trying to fix our shit. Danar still missing."

They get tactical up and working again, and get a call from Nayrok.
"So Danar just attacked Lunar V in the police shuttle. Some people are hurt, the prisoners are rioting, and bunch of them have escaped in the shuttle with Danar, and we're guessing they're heading for the capital city. Um, we're not prepared to handle this. That's what we made them for."
"Ha! Karma, you asshole! Deal with it!" says Picard.
Naw, that's what I want him to say. Instead, he says he'll send an away team.

Picard picks Data, Worf and Troi to go with him. Riker hops in the lift to see them off, and Picard checks with Troi and Data that Danar and his fellow soldiers are programmed to have a strong survival instinct, and that they won't kill unless they feel threatened. Troi and Data confirm. Riker holds Worf back when they go into the transporter room, and because he hasn't had time to bitch about the safety of the captain on an away mission, he tells Worf that he's holding the Klingon personally responsible for the captain.

The away team beams down while Nayrok is passing out weapons to his fellow suits.

"This is it?" asks Nayrok in a tone that says that he's a spoiled kid, counting his birthday presents.

"Yeah, we're not fighting your war for you, Nayrok."
This time, he actually said that.
Nayrok's bullshit here is great. Note his use of guilt to try to get Picard to do what he wants: "They have been seen moving towards the center of the city. People are scared. Don't you understand, Captain? They're dangerous."
Picard's response is even better: "You're dangerous. They are only victims. You made them what they are. You asked them to defend your way of life and then you discarded them."
Some other suit (Zayner) chimes in to say that the soldiers were not happy on the planet, and Troi snaps back that they were not happy there.
"No one liked the solution of resettling them, but it had to be done for the Greater Good," says Nayrok.
Fuck the Greater Good. Why the hell does evil always try to hide behind the phase "the Greater Good"?

Data, ever the dispassionate outsider, politely asks if the soldiers can be reprogrammed.
"We can remove the chemicals," says Nayrok, "but we're uncertain if we can reverse the psychological conditioning."
"Have you tried?" asks Data earnestly.
"We studied it thoroughly," Nayrok insists. "Like, before we did any of this."
OH, that makes it okay! They studied it thoroughly!
"Did you tell them that?" demands Worf.
Nayrok gives a non-answer: "We were helping them to survive the war. You understand? They needed those skills."
So.... no.
"Fuck off," replies Picard.
"It was the will of the the people!" interrupts Zayner.
"To allow them to suffer?!" demands Troi.
Cut a bitch, Troi!
Nayrok tries to explain how the Angosians exiled their own people, as though them thinking about it a lot made it okay.
"Besides," breaks in Zayner. "We may need them again."
Can somebody slap that asshole?
"Are you seriously that obtuse?" demands Picard.

Suddenly, they're surrounded by soldiers with weapons.
"Nobody move!" shouts Picard. "Don't shoot them, or they'll kill you!"
The suits all have the good grace to look abashed, and lower their weapons.
"No, shoot us!" yells Danar. "Do anything, but don't ignore us!"
Nobody moves, and Danar calls them cowards.
"You're programmed to survive," argues Nayrok. "You can survive on Lunar V."
"We don't want to survive, we want to live!"
Troi encourages Danar to tell Nayrok what they want. There's a pause, and then Danar says they want their lives back, and they want to come home.
Nayrok replies that he won't negotiate under threat, but if the soldiers will go back peacefully to Lunar V, he will consider their issues.
"Fuck you, no you won't," says Danar.
Which is true. Dude just wants to trap them on the moon again.
"Captain, call your ship," pleads Nayrok.
That least-reliable friend needs another fifty bucks.
"Okay." Picard taps his comm badge. "Enterprise, prepare to beam us up."

"Wait, what? No!"
"Prime Minister, you now get to make a choice about whether to try to banish your soldiers back in their prison or welcome them home. And you're right - this is a matter of internal security for you, and we don't get to comment or interfere. Actually, we're not allowed to get involved in the development of your culture, which I suspect will develop a lot in the next few minutes. Anyway, I have all the info I need to make a recommendation to the Federation about you. Bye."
Nayrok is stunned. Danar smiles at Troi before they beam away.

The away team returns to the bridge.
"Add a footnote to my recommendation," Picard tells Riker. "Say that the Fedration should offer them assistance in reprogramming their soldiers... if their government survives the night."
"What if they don't survive?"
"I think they'll choose to," smiles Picard.

I want to like this episode more than I do. Really and truly. I like that it comments on the plight of soldiers who have trouble readjusting to society, and what happens when said society casts them off instead of thanking them by helping them to readjust. War is a strange scene, with it's own rules and ways of doing things, and those things do not mesh well within a peaceful society, even if the actions taken are not inherently violent. (A story a reservist told me after returning from Afghanistan: "I drove tanks over there sometimes, and when I returned to the States, I had to remind myself not to run other cars off the road, like I would have done in the tank.") I also liked the off-handed, casual way that the Angosian Senate members dismissed the needs of the soldiers, and objectified them, "they're fine," "it was the will of the people," and "what if we need them again?" Very creepy. The best villains are the ones who live next door and who you might have previously categorized as "alright" before learning their views.
However, what really gets to me is the fact that Star Trek really likes to do episodes about small groups of insurgents versus society at large, and while those can be good episodes, they all tend to be so similar that they blend together in my mind. The next episode, for example, will also feature a small group of insurgents asking for independence from a larger society, and while it will deal with different themes, it is too similar in it's overarching theme to this one, and in my mind, I blend the two together, and forget which details belong to which episode. I really wish they had done this episode, then done a few different ones, then did number 12.

Fun Facts:

- This episode is an allegory of US veterans of the Vietnam War, and how they were treated when they returned home. Originally, the soldiers were supposed to storm the capital, and there was going to be a big shoot-out. But time and budget wouldn't allow for it. And there was some question as to how successful the ending would be if the soldiers came in and killed everyone.
- The weapon that Danar carries onto the Enterprise was broken during the struggle with the security Golds. The pieces are on display at the Seattle Science Fiction Hall of Fame and Museum.
- Members of the Angosian Senate wore turtlenecks from Star Trek II.

- This is the first TNG episode to feature Jeffries tubes. This is also the only episode to feature tubes large enough to walk upright in.

- This is the first time the redesigned brig is shown.
- First mention of emergency airlocks and torpedo control room.
- James Cromwell, who played Prime Minister Nayrok , will play characters on other episodes of TNG and DS9, but is best known for his portrayal of Zephram Cochran in First Contact and an episode of Enterprise.

- Jeff McCarthy, who played Roga Danar, will be seen again as the original CMO for Voyager.

- J. Michael Flynn, who played Zayner, will show up again in Enterprise.


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