HIROGEN : Page 4: The Hirogen's use of holotechnology
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Drawing of Hirogen hologrid training facility (exterior)
 The holoprogram is deactivated to reveal 43 Hirogen dead
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The grim and unforeseen consequences of sharing holotechnology with the Hirogen is seen three years later, in 2377, in [Flesh and Blood]. In order to utilise the holographic resources given them by Janeway in 2374 (in [The Killing Game]), the Hirogen construct hologrid facilities in various locations. Iden, a hologram programmed as a Bajoran is, until he manages to escape, the favourite prey of an Alpha on a Hirogen outpost. In 2377 USS Voyager encounters an enormous hologrid facility in which the away team find forty-three Hirogen, killed by their holographic prey. It turns out that the Alpha Hirogen had ordered one under his command, by name Donik, to program the holographic prey to populate the hologrid and, to make the hunt more challenging, had ordered Donik to give them enhanced memory, comprehensive tactical algorithms and expandable data processing. In other words, the holograms have become sentient and adaptive - a new lifeform. They escaped the hologrid facility on a stolen Hirogen ship. Janeway, believing Donik's original claim that the holograms have malfunctioned, hunts for the holograms in order to shut them down. The Doctor, meanwhile, is abducted by the holograms but comes to sympathise with them, especially after experiencing what it is like to be prey through the transferred memory files of one of their number. The Doctor wants to help the holograms make a home for themselves on a planet they name Ha'Dara ("home of light") where, since its environment is Class Y and hostile to organic beings, they can live without interference provided they have with them a network of photonic field generators. The holograms' engineer, called Kejal, needs help to complete the these generators - the kind of expertise in holotechnology that Torres has. But Janeway does not trust what the holograms will do with any technology that Voyager gives them, not wanting to risk making the same mistake with the holograms that she did with the Hirogen. The holograms abduct Torres and the Doctor persuades her to help complete the photonic field generator. The Doctor turns against Iden when Iden kills two Nuu'bari miners in the process of "liberating" Nuu'bari mining holograms each of whom, however, turn out to have too rudimentary a program to understand or join Iden's war. But when two Hirogen hunting vessels pursue them, the holograms take advantage of Janeway disabling their ships by beaming the Hirogen to Ha'Dara and hunting them as the Hirogen once hunted them. Eventually Kejal and Torres shut down the holograms and store them within the stolen ship's databanks, and the Doctor is forced to destroy Iden their leader, Iden, to prevent him killing Beta Hirogen. The Hirogen agree to leave empty-handed after Neelix points out that in stories told of the hunt it would not sound good for the truth of the defeated Beta Hirogen's rescue to be known. The single hologram not shut down, Kejal, who has helped the Doctor and Torres in averting a massacre of Hirogen by the holograms, leaves in the stolen ship, accompanied by Donik who is anxious to make amends. [Flesh And Blood]. |
 Donik, Hirogen engineering technician, who programmed the holograms
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