The Killing Game
- Episode aired Mar 4, 1998
- TV-PG
- 46m
After Voyager is captured by the Hirogen, the ship is turned into a massive holodeck so that the aliens can hunt members of the crew who have been fitted with new identities in various scena... Read allAfter Voyager is captured by the Hirogen, the ship is turned into a massive holodeck so that the aliens can hunt members of the crew who have been fitted with new identities in various scenarios based upon Earth and Federation history.After Voyager is captured by the Hirogen, the ship is turned into a massive holodeck so that the aliens can hunt members of the crew who have been fitted with new identities in various scenarios based upon Earth and Federation history.
- Young Hirogen
- (as Paul S. Eckstein)
- Holographic Nazi Officer
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Ashmore
- (uncredited)
- Hirogen Hunter
- (uncredited)
- Injured Crewman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaJeri Ryan displays her singing talents in this episode. Her character is a torchlight songstress forced to sing for the demanding Hirogen-Nazi. She sings "That Old Black Magic" (originally published in 1942), a very popular songs during World War ll, as well as "It Can't Be Wrong" (written in 1943), which was an adaptation of "Charlotte's Theme" from Max Steiner's Academy Award-winning soundtrack for the Bette Davis film Now, Voyager (1942).
- GoofsWhen the Hirogen discover the Doctor has disabled Janeway's neural interface, one of them holds the Doctor in a lock and at phaser point - somewhat useless as he's a hologram and a phaser could not harm him.
- Quotes
Alpha Hirogen: [after the German SS officer has claimed their race would be stronger than the enemy's] You are superior to no one! Never underestimate your prey or disrespect its abilities. If you do, *you* will become the hunted. When the opposing army invades this city, remember my words.
- Alternate versionsA 90 minute feature-length version of "The Killing Game", the two parts spliced together without the intervening credits and previews, was broadcast by the BBC on the first UK airing of 5 September 1999. This "movie" version was released in the UK on VHS on 5 February 2001 as part of the collection "Star Trek: Voyager - Movies: Volume 3". (This 5-volume collection includes all of the Voyager two-part episodes in similar feature versions, and all of the feature-length episodes as well.)
- ConnectionsEdited into Star Trek: Enterprise: Storm Front (2004)
So what's all this really about anyway? It seems that the Hirogen have taken over the ship and have oddly decided to place everyone in 1944 Occupied France. Why? I dunno...I guess Paramount just wanted to use their back lot as well as some German uniforms! Fortunately, not ALL the show is set in this period and it turns out that the crew are being sent into many different scenarios so that the Hirogen can assess the crew's abilities as prey. I really wish they'd NOT used the Nazis and just had a more arena-like setting where crew battled it out with a wide variety of species--that might have made a lot more sense. It's a shame, as the Hirogen were good ideas for villains but they are wasted here in this often ultra- silly two-parter.
By the way, I was a huge fan of the series "Enterprise", though it was a failure compared to other Trek shows. I think much of it was because this show ALSO made the mistake of having episodes (too many) where the enemies were acting out some stupid plot as Nazis in WWII Germany! The episodes without this gimmick were great...the Nazi ones cringe- worthy!
- planktonrules
- Feb 22, 2015
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3