Prey
- Episode aired Feb 18, 1998
- TV-PG
- 46m
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Helping a wounded Hirogen, Janeway finds that their prey has boarded Voyager, a member of species 8472.Helping a wounded Hirogen, Janeway finds that their prey has boarded Voyager, a member of species 8472.Helping a wounded Hirogen, Janeway finds that their prey has boarded Voyager, a member of species 8472.
John Austin
- Voyager Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
Damaris Cordelia
- Crewman Foster
- (uncredited)
Tarik Ergin
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
Guy Richardson
- Crewman
- (uncredited)
John Wilkie
- Hirogen
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe telepathic visions that Tuvok experiences in this episode mostly involves reused shots from the Scorpion (1997)/Scorpion, Part II (1997), in which Kes sees some of the same images. The recycled footage includes close-up views of a member of Species 8472 that both she and Tuvok individually envisage. Another reused shot is of the battle between a Borg cube and a Species 8472 ship, during which, in the far distance behind the cube, the Starship Voyager can also be seen. In fact, only one of the shots that, supposedly, Tuvok sees telepathically was created especially for this one; it shows a Species 8472 vessel being pursued by a Hirogen warship.
- GoofsBefore heading to the asteroid, the alpha Hirogen picks up a rifle, then we see a Hirogen smear white paint on his helmet. When the two get to the asteroid, the one with the red paint is the leader, not the white one. One might think that they have switched roles; however, the Hirogen who picked up the rifle was not the same one seen painting white paint on his helmet.
- Quotes
Chakotay: Is your body armor designed to handle rapid pressure fluctuations?
Alpha Hirogen: It can defeat most hostile environments. I once tracked a silicon-based life-form through the neutronium mantle of a collapsed star.
Tom Paris: I once tracked a mouse through Jefferies tube 32.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Inglorious Treksperts: The Women (2020)
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alien vs predator
Sorry, Species 8472 vs Hirogen
I will disagree with other reviews about the sense of Cpt Janeway - species 8472, despite the peril it poses, deserves some compassion, at least as a dramatic device. Describing it as pure evil was unfair - in general, non-humanoid species are rare enough in Star Trek, and usually shown as xenophobic (probably to explain why they are not around much).
Anyway, the episode was quite good, except of course for the captain's hypocrisy (or, better, the writers' disregard for continuity): she is unwilling to sacrifice the hunted alien even if it saves the whole of Voyager, but no one is there to remind her of that time she killed a guy called Tuvix.
I will disagree with other reviews about the sense of Cpt Janeway - species 8472, despite the peril it poses, deserves some compassion, at least as a dramatic device. Describing it as pure evil was unfair - in general, non-humanoid species are rare enough in Star Trek, and usually shown as xenophobic (probably to explain why they are not around much).
Anyway, the episode was quite good, except of course for the captain's hypocrisy (or, better, the writers' disregard for continuity): she is unwilling to sacrifice the hunted alien even if it saves the whole of Voyager, but no one is there to remind her of that time she killed a guy called Tuvix.
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