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SUMMARY: The Hirogen have captured USS Voyager and are forcing the crew to engage in deadly battles in holodeck simulations with the safety protocols off. The crew are controlled by implanted neural interfaces which make them believe they are characters within the simulations. One simulation comprises Klingon caves, the setting for duels and wars. The other holosimulation is that of the Nazi-occupied strategically important French city of Sainte Claire several months after D-Day. The French Resistance is active in the city and American forces are soon expected to try and liberate the city. Alpha Hirogen turns Voyager into one large holodeck, intent on mastering Starfleet's holodeck technology for his own purposes. Kim and the Doctor are two crewmembers not implanted with neural interfaces, being respectively forced by the Hirogen to extend the holodecks and patch up the crew between fights. The pair hatch a daring plan to attempt to disable the neural interfaces and hopefully retake the ship.
 | Janeway fights for her life as a Klingon in a holodeck scenario. The holodeck safety protocols are off! |
 | Alpha Hirogen moves in to make the kill. He is real, not a hologram. The Hirogen hunt prey i.e. individuals of other species, and take their body parts as trophies of the hunt. He tells Janeway she is "resilient prey". "I am no one's prey," she snarls but Alpha Hirogen stabs her and she falls.
Alpha Hirogen: "You are mine, now and after death." He contacts Voyager's Sickbay: "Janeway needs medical attention."
He is saving Janeway for another hunt. |
 | Hirogen vessels alongside the captured Starship Voyager. |
 
| Alpha Hirogen and the Hirogen Medic in Sickbay, with the injured and unconscious Janeway.
A large group of Hirogen has seized and occupied Voyager and are using the Holodecks to play out war simulations with their "prey" i.e. the crew, with the Holodeck safety protocols turned off. The crew believe they are truly part of the holosimulations via a neural interface implanted in each of them - it is a sub-dermal transmitter in the neck that links the neocortex to the Holodeck and makes the crew believe that they are a particular persona within the holosimulation. Whenever a member of the crew is injured they are brought to Sickbay, treated, and returned to fight again. This has been going on for 19 days. |
 | World War II scenario. Mlle. de Neuf i.e. Seven. She believes she is the singer at 'Le Coeur de Lion', a restaurant in the French village of Sainte Claire occupied by German forces. |
 | de Neuf's beautiful singing earns great applause from the customers in the restaurant, who include German soldiers.
The pianist's name is Claude, of whom Seven tells the audience: "Without him my voice would be empty." |
 | One Hirogen, the second-in-command, named Turanj (in the role of the German Colonel), demands that Seven continues singing. When she refuses he threatens to kill her and adorn his ship with her body parts. Alpha Hirogen (Kommandant Karr) tells off Turanj: "Play the game!" |
 | Janeway as Katrine, proprietor of 'Le Coeur de Lion'. She welcomes guests by telling them that the first round is on her on one condition - that they leave the War outside. |
 | Janeway tries to get on with Alpha Hirogen/the Kommandant. He tells her his prey will be the French Resistance in St Claire. The village is strategically important for the Allied advance on Germany. |
 | Janeway/Katrine is actually the head of the French Resistance in Sainte Claire. She and her barman (Tuvok's persona) voice increasing suspicions about Seven/de Neuf's loyalty after she only reluctantly obeys the order to fetch a part for the radio. It might be that Seven/de Neuf is merely headstrong in wanting to engage the Germans directly in warfare rather than collect vital intelligence for the Allies. Katrine tells her barman to have de Neuf followed for the next few days. If she turns out to be a Nazi infiltrator, she will have to be "eliminated". |
 | As cycles through Sainte Claire, Neelix/the Baker passes two German officers who are a holographic Nazi character and Turanj, Neelix says 'good day' to them in German. Turanj stops the Baker. |
 | Turanj orders the Baker to "get off your vehicle" and demands what he is carrying. He breaks one of the baguettes and empties a bottle of red wine onto the cobbles. He tells the Baker that if he had his way, he would kill him now. |
 | 'Le Coeur de Lion'. Katrine takes a gun with her to answer the knock at the door but it is only the Baker, delivering a message from the Allies which is on the back of the label of the wine bottle that Turanj emptied. |
 | Torres' persona is Brigitte, a member of the French resistance. She is manning the radio. The message brought by the Baker enables Brigitte and Katrine to decipher the coded message read out disguised in the British weather forecast. It is September 22nd 1944. The message is from Allied High Command and says that the Americans will invade Sainte Claire on Tuesday at dawn and requires the Resistance to disable the enemy's communications beforehand. |
 | Brigitte says she will call on her "special friend" (i.e. the father of her child) and reconnoitre Nazi headquarters. Janeway/Katrine orders that a message be sent to the Allies that they will carry out the plan (to disable enemy communications). |
 | Brigitte gets inside Nazi headquarters by pretending a dizzy turn and feigning pain on the pavement outside. Concerned, one of the guards show her inside and into the Kapitan's office. |
 | Brigitte pretends she just wanted to see the Kapitan and does not care what her French neighbours think. |
 | Brigitte notices that the radio is located in this room. |
 | Turanj expresses dissatisfaction with the hologames. He lusts to kill the prey, take his trophies and be gone. He and another open fire on the passing Baker, who is returning to deliver Katrine's message that the Resistance will do as asked. The Baker tries but fails to rescue the message as he comes under fire. Then Mlle. de Neuf arrives and shoots back at the Hirogen. They flee but are found and shot. The Hirogen remove them to Sickbay. |
 | The Doctor protests to the Hirogen Medic and then to Alpha Hirogen. The latter refuses even to engage the holodeck safety protocols. Alpha Hirogen orders that Neelix be placed in the Klingon simulation, and that Seven be returned to the Sainte Claire simulation as he likes her voice. |
 | Kim, who is as surly as possible towards the occupying Hirogen, protests that he has taken power from all non-essential systems and cannot expand the Holodecks further without compromising essential systems including life support. He has already expanded them by 5,000 square metres by cutting through the bulkheads of Decks 4, 5 and 6. Alpha Hirogen orders Kim to expand the Holodecks even more; he will provide Hirogen power modules to assist. |
 | Kim tells his assistant to get the Hirogen guard to accompany him to Sickbay to fetch some equipment. |
 | While they are gone, Kim activates the Doctor using the holoemitters on the deck for holoemitters have been installed on many decks now. Kim tells the Doctor that he cannot disable the neural interfaces without access to the Bridge relays on the Holodeck. |
 | Alpha Hirogen confides to Turanj his vision of bringing together the scattered members of the Hirogen race who have dispersed themselves throughout the Quadrant and become a solitary and isolated race. He assures Turanj the hunt will continue but in a new way - using holodeck technology. Turanj objects, saying that the Hirogen have pursued the hunt in exactly the same way for the past thousand years. Alpha Hirogen says that, if they do not change, in another thousand years no one will remember the name Hirogen.
Alpha Hirogen: "Species that don't change, die." When he asks if Turanj supports him, Turanj gives a small nod. |
 | Seven's neural interface was damaged when Turanj shot her/her persona. While the Hirogen Medic is fetching the last neural interface to implant in her neck, the Doctor quickly briefs Seven. The last she remembers is being hit by phaser fire three times when the Hirogen boarded. The Doctor concludes that the neural interface circumvents the memory centre because she is unable to remember anything that occurred on the Holodeck. He tells her he has modified her Borg implant to emit a jamming signal to disable the neural interface. |
This means that she will know who she really is while in the simulation. As she does not know anything about World War II, he advises her to fit in as best she can. Her mission is to acess the Holodeck controls so that Kim can tie in the Bridge and then the Sickbay controls; it is the main surgical console in Sickbay which controls the neural interfaces.
 | The Hirogen Medic arrives with the new neural interface for Seven. The Doctor has to sedate Seven. |
 | Back in the persona of de Neuf, and in 'Le Coeur de Lion', Seven's neural interface is suddenly jammed and disabled and she is herself again. She refuses to co-operate with Janeway/Katrine by singing any more, despite Janeway/Katrine wanting to elicit information from Kommandant Karr who is in the audience. |
 | Tuvok says evidence is mounting against de Neuf - the Baker was shot but she surprisingly survived. |
 | On Holodeck 1 the American troops prepare to invade Sainte Claire. Their commander, Captain Miller (Chakotay's persona) chats with Lt. Bobby Davis (Tom Paris' persona). |
When Miller tells Davis that he has heard nothing from the Resistance, Davis tells him not to under-estimate the citizens of Sainte Claire who love their village and would die for it. Miller replies: "I won't count them out but I won't count them in either". Miller asks "who was the girl?" Davis replies that he spent a summer in Sainte Claire when he was eighteen and fell in love with a local girl named Brigitte. His train pulled out of Sainte Claire on August 19th 1936 at 12.17 p.m. He and Brigitte wrote to each other for three years after that but lost contact when the War broke out. He says she had "great gams and one hell of a temper". Miller replies that she sounds like Davis' sort of girl.
 | In Sainte Claire at night, the Resistance group moves in on Nazi Headquarters. |
 | Having evaded the guards, Katrine and Seven/de Neuf reach the Kapitan's office inside Nazi headquarters and knock out the radio operator. Katrine sets Seven/de Neuf the task of setting charges to blow up the radio. Katrine, listening to the radio, hears an incoming message about German troop movements and realises that the Germans know the Americans are coming. |
 | Seven accesses the Bridge relays, enabling access to Janeway's neural interface. Katrine believes Seven/de Neuf is a traitor as she has not set the charges and seems to be making a transmission to the Germans. |
 | Just as Katrine is about to shoot de Neuf, the Doctor in Sickbay manages to disable her neural interface, and Janeway suddenly realises who she really is. |
 | The Hirogen discover the Doctor in the act of disabling Janeway's neural interface. Alpha Hirogen, who is in the Klingon simulation, orders Hirogen hunters to remove Janeway. |
 | Tuvok, standing watch outside Nazi Headquarters, sees the Hirogen hunters arriving and opens fire on them, believing them to be Germans. At that moment the Americans arrive and heavy fire is exchanged with the Germans. "Welcome to Sainte Claire," Tuvok tells Chakotay/Captain Miller. |
 | Chakotay/Miller orders Paris/Davis to secure the streets and lay down fire against the enemy. He bursts into 'Le Coeur de Lion' and meets Brigitte again. He greets her with: "You owe me a postcard." |
 | Janeway and Seven set the holographic charges and escape Nazi headquarters before... |
 | ...it blows up. |
 | The simulated explosion on Holodeck 1 catches three decks, and holographic soldiers are reported as moving onto Deck 5. Kim cannot shut down the Holodeck because the program controls are offline. None of the personae and holocharacters understand what it is they are seeing. Captain Miller believes it is a bunker and orders troops to converge on it - unknown to them they are about to enter the rest of USS Voyager!
The explosion and exposure of the Holodeck is the end of Episode 86, i.e. Part 1 of the story, as aired on tv. |
 | | ALPHA HIROGEN to Turanj: "Species that don't change, die. We've lost our way. We've allowed our predatory instincts to dominate us. We disperse ourselves throughout the Quadrant, sending ships in all directions. We've become a solitary race, isolated. We've spread ourselves too thin. We're no longer a culture. We have no identity. In another thousand years, no one will remember the name Hirogen. Our people must come back together, combine forces, rebuild our civilisation. The hunt will always continue, but in a new way. I intend to transform this ship into a vast simulation, populated with a varied and endless supply of prey. In time, this technology can be duplicated for other Hirogen. These Holodecks will allow us to hold onto our past while we face the future." |
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