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3.11 The Hunted

The Enterprise arrives at Angosia III, a happy planet of perfectly normal people who aren’t hiding any dark secrets. The Angosians are appealing to join the Federation, and Picard is mere seconds away from getting out his rubber stamp when there’s a prison break on one of their penal colony moons.

The Enterprise attempts to subdue the escapee in his stolen ship, but he gives them the runaround. Eventually, they transport him onto the Enterprise and although he managed to beat up Chief O’Brien and two security nobodies, Worf and Riker are able to subdue him. (Yep, that’s right. Worf actually won a fight!)

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The man, Roga Danar (that’s pronounced “Roh-gah”, not “Roger”), is placed in the brig to await extradition to the surface. The case seems closed, until Troi goes to visit him. “I sensed his pain,” she says, “and I also sensed his square jaw and dark brooding eyes.”

Troi goes to Picard, but he’s nonplussed by her appeals for leniency, not least because he beat the hell out of several crewmen (and SHOT O’Brien!). He tells her the order will stand. Rather than accept this, Troi goes to check his records, only to find that he’s not a criminal – he’s a veteran soldier.

Troi and Crusher assess Danar and find that he’s an unstoppable killing machine who can’t help himself – he was psychologically programmed and physically enhanced to fight in one of the Angosian wars. Now the wars are over, and he (and his people) were thrown into exile because they keep snapping and killing people. Unfortunately, they can never be cured of their brainwashing. Although he admits to his fellow programmee, Data, that the options have not been fully explored and the normal man he was is still inside, if only he could stop his indiscriminate killing.

Picard takes these findings to a phonecall with the Angosian Prime Minister who claims that this is all lies and that Danar and his people were “rehomed” on a “colony” where they could live in “complete comfort”. Then he gets shirty and terminates the call, saying that it’s a matter of internal security. Which I think we can agree is a guaranteed way to get people off your back. Picard clearly thinks so, because he starts musing aloud to himself, philosophically, in an empty room.

Despite this, Picard is forced to hand Danar back to the Angosians. As they try to beam him out, he manages to break out of the transporter beam mid-transport and escape, knocking Troi and Worf unconscious. When Troi and Worf wake up, Danar is gone. They then do an extended Benny Hill-style chase around the ship where he makes Starfleet’s finest look like chimps and eventually escapes.

Everyone’s a little flummoxed until the Prime Minister phones up and tells them that Danar has organised a “mass breakout” from their totally voluntary home. The wayward super-soldiers are now advancing on the Angosian government. Picard, Worf, Troi and Data beam to the surface, which upsets the Prime Minister because he specifically expected a useful group of people. Picard tells him that they won’t help Angosia evade responsibility for their actions. The Prime Minister admits that they don’t even want to, in case they need the soldiers again.

Danar and his followers arrive, and Picard warns everyone not to provoke the super-soldiers, because their programming only kicks in when they’re attacked. With the help of Troi and Picard, Danar sets out his terms, and the Prime Minister claims he’ll look at the problem. Danar doesn’t believe him. The Prime Minister asks Picard to intervene, but he kind of shrugs his shoulders and says they should probably figure this out themselves. After all, it’s a matter of “internal security”. And if they want to re-apply to the Federation later, they’re welcome to try. Then he beams away, leaving the planet’s government at gunpoint.

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Back on the Enterprise, Picard asks Riker to note in the report that the Federation will help the Angosian government cure their soldiers, assuming it still exists in the morning. And then he warp nines the hell out of there.

TNG WTF: It’s slightly surprising that Picard, the king of diplomacy, decides to beat a hasty retreat just as a group of murderous rebels has taken over the government. Rebels with a point, admittedly, but also guns, a lot of anger, and a built-in knowledge of three hundred ways to kill a man with his own eyelids. Then he ends the episode by making a joke about whether the government will survive the night. Ha ha, people will probably die. Even if he agrees with the rebels, he could’ve stuck around to make sure they weren’t simply subdued again, since the Angosians presumably managed it once. It’s not the job of the Federation to police the galaxy, but this was shirking by any assessment.

TNG LOL: During Danar’s chase, Worf encounters an overloading phaser left as a trap in a turbolift. Leaving aside the question of why you’d give your phaser a setting that made it explode dangerously (do pistols have a backfire setting?) his shout of “Phaser on Overload, seal this deck!” and the shot of his security team member literally burying his face in terror as Worf disarms it are amazing. They suggest something much more violent than what actually happens when one blows up later on.

Mistakes and Minutiae: TWO new phaser settings this week. “Overload”, which makes them blow up in an incredibly dangerous manner, and “Quick Charge”, which lets them power a deactivated transporter when plugged into a special USB-type port on a console.  The complete list is now Stun, Kill, Cut Through Door, Heat Up Rocks, Head Explodey, Aqueduct Demolition, Smelt Ore, Overkill, Overload and Quick Charge.

As for mistakes, when Danar breaks out of his transporter beam, even the most serene Star Trek nerd must surely be shouting “TRANSPORTERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.” If you break out of your beam mid-transport, I don’t care how much super-soldier engineering you’ve got, you’re not going to survive if half of your particles are in a buffer somewhere. Considering how little it takes for them to go wrong, it’s a miracle they didn’t end up with one good Danar and one evil Danar or something.

Who’s That Face?: The Angosian Prime Minister is James Cromwell, better known as Zefram Cochrane, the father of warp drive as seen in Star Trek: First Contact .

Time Until Meeting: 18:17. Troi explains Danar to the bridge crew. Surprisingly late in the episode!

Captain’s Log: Some weeks you find a gem. Other weeks, you can’t even remember the episode until Worf shouts “PHASER ON OVERLOAD! SEAL THIS DECK!”. There’s a point in here about the way society treats its veterans, but the Angosian government is so cartoonishly evil and Danar so clearly psychologically undamaged that it stops being a meaningful social metaphor very quickly.

Other than that, there’s almost nothing interesting here. It’s competent, but by-the-numbers. Enterprise arrives at a planet, discovers its dark secret, a handsome man/woman makes doe eyes at Riker/Troi, and the Enterprise imparts a moral lesson before leaving. And at some point in the episode, Data struggles to understand the nature of his robo-humanity. If you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it a hundred times.

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" 'A matter of internal security.' The age-old cry of the oppressor." — Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Original air date: January 8, 1990

The Enterprise and crew are visiting Angosia, a Proud Scholar Race that is applying for entry into The Federation . Picard and Riker are praising Angosia's society for its rapid recovery from a recent war when the Angosian authorities request some assistance. A prisoner has escaped from a penal colony on the moon of Lunar V, and they need the Enterprise 's help in apprehending him.

After a quick bit of searching, the Enterprise locates his stolen shuttle but have difficulty apprehending it. Using a series of clever misdirections, the ship nearly eludes the Enterprise , but Data eventually manages to locate an Escape Pod that contains no signs of life. Picard tells O'Brien to beam over anything humanoid-sized within the pod that might be the convict. It works, and the convict is brought on board.

The convict refuses to surrender and puts a serious beating on two security guards and O'Brien at the same time, shaking off phaser blasts all the while. Riker and Worf finally arrive as reinforcements and manage to subdue the convict. Strangely enough, the convict continues to show no life signs on the ship's sensors.

The mysterious prisoner is identified as Roga Danar. Troi senses him having nightmares and goes to his holding cell to meet him. She notices that for such a violent man, he is intelligent and thoughtful while displaying no signs of uncontrollable anger. He admits that he has been augmented to serve as a Super-Soldier , giving him an enhanced capacity for violence and the mental conditioning to use it when threatened.

With a little research into the Angosian files, Troi and Data find something odd. Roga has no criminal record whatsoever, and his military record is an exemplary one at that. And as it happens, Lunar V is a military prison where all of the soldiers from its previous war were dumped because they had become unfit to live in society anymore. They all can't turn off their military conditioning to react violently to any perceived threat.

Angosia arranges for Roga to be transported back to Lunar V and tells the Enterprise to keep their noses out of their internal security matters. In spite of his distaste over Roga's treatment at the hands of his own government, Picard's hands are bound because he has no authority over Angosia.

When the Enterprise attempts to beam Roga to the Angosian shuttle, Roga does the impossible. He breaks out of the transport beam and begins running amok on the Enterprise . Still unable to locate him with the ship's sensors, the bridge can only track his interactions with the ship, creating a cat-and-mouse game between him and Worf's security team. Roga leads them on a merry chase, using misdirection to consistently flummox the crew and keep his plans a mystery. Worf finally gets the drop on him, but Roga outfights him and beams himself aboard the prison transport ship.

Roga commandeers the transport vessel and steers it to Lunar V to round up his former comrades and lead an insurrection on Angosia. The government pleads with Picard to help defend them from the threat of their own making. Picard beams down personally along with only Troi, Data, and Worf just in time for Roga's commandos to storm the capital building. Picard warns the Angosians not to provoke the commandos in any way to avoid triggering their military conditioning and starting a bloodbath. He then urges the two sides to talk to each other.

The two sides seem intractable. The soldiers insist on returning to their home, while the Angosian government maintains that nothing can be done to make them suitable for society again. The away team chastise the government for never even trying to help the soldiers who protected them. Picard refuses to interfere in the negotiations, saying that they will have to find a solution together. The away team then beams away, leaving Angosia to its fate, after telling the Angosians when they are truly ready the Federation would be happy to reconsider their application.

Back on the ship, Picard prepares to leave the planet telling Riker to note in their report that if the Angosian government survives the night the Federation would offer assistance in treating their veterans. He expresses confidence that Angosia will find a way to survive, before having helm set a course for a nearby starbase.

Tropes featured in this episode:

• Anti-Villain : Danar. He is what his people made him to be. Applies to his engineered cohorts as well.
• Arc Words : "Survival," and the choice or compulsion to do so, comes up many times. It is the idea that made Angosians create the soldiers in the past, a word that ironically damns those soldiers in every respect of the word in the present, and what to Danar is simply not enough for the future. Picard's closing words on the subject highlight this as it's turned on the Angosian government— the government might not survive this crisis, but he suspects in the end that they will choose to.
• Battle of Wits : Danar and Data fight it out this way. Danar is impressed with Data for figuring out his plan.
• Blessed with Suck : One of Roga Danar's enhancements is an improved memory. He can remember everything in perfect detail. This includes the faces of the people he killed in the war. All eighty-four of them.
• Borrowed Biometric Bypass : Danar knocks out a security guard, then uses the guard's hand to tap his combadge to shut off a force field in the corridor.
• Broken-System Dogmatist : The government of Angosia III is adamant to keep the incarceration system of their war veterans in place, even though it means technically abusing them by keeping them in a Gilded Cage , and keeping them away from their former lives and families. Picard doesn't have any of it when the officials keep throwing "It was the will of the people" back in the away team's faces, as if it means something important.
• Call-Back : Riker figures out that Danar is hiding his ship over Angosia's magnetic pole; back in " Peak Performance ," it was mentioned in Riker's file that he had once performed the same trick.
• Combat Pragmatist : Roga Danar again. During his fight with Worf, he realizes the Klingon is too tough to go down like ordinary humans, so he knocks down some nearby metal blocks onto Worf's head, knocking him out.
• Cursed with Awesome : Danar and his engineered comrades have extraordinary abilities, but those abilities kick in automatically when threatened, and they can't turn them off. When their society no longer needs those abilities, they become pariahs.
• Didn't Think This Through : The Angosians did a bang-up job turning soldiers into unstoppable killing machines, but didn't give any thought to whether or not the soldiers could readjust to civilian society. Although there are potential treatments that could help them, they were never used in no small part because the Angosians thought that they might need these super soldiers again one day. However, no one considered the possibility that the soldiers would never willingly fight again for the government that had treated them this way.
• "Die Hard" on an X : The episode's fourth act sees Roga sneaking his way through the corridors of the Enterprise , knocking out guards and stealing phasers, then MacGyvering them into bombs and power sources so he can bypass the security measures, until finally he reaches a transporter that allows him to hijack the Angosian shuttle.
• Do with Him as You Will : Played with. Picard decides to leave the Angosians with their outcast creations, except not for violent retribution, but negotiations.
• Early-Installment Weirdness : The Jeffries tube in this episode is a corridor, instead of the cramped crawlways of future Trek stories.
• Empty Elevator : Save for an overloading phaser that Danar left.
• Exact Words : Picard tells the Prime Minister that he'll send an away team. He never says that it's a security team, or that they'll actually intervene. Picard employs this again when the PM says "Picard, you have to do something." Picard agrees... and beams back up to the ship.
• Fast-Roping : One of Danar's men does this during the climax.
• Fate Worse than Death : How Danar feels about returning to Lunar V.
• Freudian Excuse : Danar pokes fun at Troi, coming up with different reasons for why he turned out so violent. Troi: Why do you have all this anger toward me? Danar: A girl with long dark hair broke my heart a long time ago. Out of bitterness and resentment, I turned to crime. (laughs) How about this one? My mother abandoned me when I was a little boy. I never got the guidance that a wild young man needed. Troi: Why are you doing this? Danar: Playing games? Isn't that what you do, Counselor? Isn't that what all of you mind control experts do?
• Genius Bruiser : In addition to being an absolute beast in combat, Roga is thoughtful, erudite, and tactically brilliant.
• Gilded Cage : Prime Minister Nayrok assures Picard that the Angosians went to great lengths to make the soldiers' "colony" on Lunar V comfortable, and Danar admits that the prisoners are "well-fed and housed", and humanely treated. But, according Danar and Picard, "Even the most comfortable prison is still a prison."
• Gone Horribly Right : The Super-Soldier conditioning wound up working too well, leading to their creations becoming uncontrollable.
• He Was Right There All Along : When the security team storm the cargo hold where Roga was incapacitated, he's already gone. Worf announces that he's going to check another location on the ship and leaves. We then see that Roga was there the whole time, hiding. When Roga emerges, Worf also emerges from his own hiding spot, as he'd anticipated Roga's tactics.
• The Angosian leadership learns to its horror that, when they refused to cooperate with Captain Picard when he inquired about the matter of their super soldiers because it was a matter of internal security, they gave the disgusted Starfleet captain the perfect excuse to abandon them when the powerful rebels are about to overwhelm the government.
• In addition, the fact that the super soldiers have turned on their creators.
• Holding Your Shoulder Means Injury : O'Brien, after being shot in the shoulder with a phaser.
• Human Aliens : The Angosians don't even have face markings to distinguish them from Earth natives.
• I Can't Sense Their Presence : Danar's life-signs have been masked enough to make him effectively invisible to bio-sensors.
• Ironic Echo : When Picard complains about how Danar and his comrades are treated, Nayrok tells him that it's an internal matter and none of Starfleet's business. During the climax, when Nayrok is pissed at Picard for leaving the government at the mercy of the soldiers , Picard reminds him that it's an internal matter and none of Starfleet's business. Picard: In your own words, this is not our affair. We cannot interfere in the natural course of your society's development, and I'd say it's likely to develop significantly in the next several minutes.
• It Gets Easier : Played With . When Troi asks how an apparently sane man like Danar can act so violently, he says he was trained to do it, and he had to because it was war. He tries to sound blasé, but Troi can sense that he is deeply troubled by his past acts. The fact that his enhanced memory allows him to perfectly recall the face of each of the eighty-four people he's killed doesn't ease the turmoil one bit.
• Lightning Bruiser : Danar is strong enough to fight two guards at once, match Worf strength-for-strength, and withstand multiple phaser shots, and he's fast enough to incapacitate the entire Engineering staff before they know he's even there.
• Living Is More than Surviving : Nayrok refuses to bow to the soldiers' demands to return home to Angosia, pointing out that they were programmed to survive, and can do so on Lunar V just fine - better than fine, in fact, because the Angosians have gone to considerable lengths to make the prison there comfortable for its inmates: Danar : To survive is not enough. To simply exist is not enough! Troi : Roga, just tell them what you want. Danar : We want our lives back. We want to come home.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands : Danar's ability to reroute the transporter beam comes out of nowhere, especially after he failed to do so in Act 1.
• No Place for a Warrior : The driving force of the episode. Angosia is a peaceful and intellectual civilization where their own soldiers cannot fit in.
• No-Sell : Phaser fire has little effect on Danar, at least at first. It takes a few shots at maximum stun to finally stagger him enough to incapacitate him. He is also immune to sensors.
• "Not So Different" Remark : Data mentions that he and Danar have much in common because both of them have been programmed.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome : Several of Danar's feats (such as breaking out of prison) occur off-screen. There's also the bit where he incapacitates the entire engineering crew — he's seen headed to the engine room, and when we next see him, everyone else is lying unconscious.
• Outside-Context Problem : The closest the Enterprise crew have come to dealing with Super Soldiers , up to this point, have been the Klingons. Someone as nigh-invulnerable as Roga Danar has the crew completely caught off-guard, and they certainly couldn't have foreseen anyone who could escape the transporter beam.
• Perfect Solution Fallacy : Regarding the super soldiers— Nayrok says that the strength-enhancing drugs can be removed from their systems, but the psychological conditioning may not be entirely reversible, so of course they don't even try. Troi calls BS on this. Troi: Even a partial recovery may give them some peace.
• Proud Scholar Race : The Angosians, which is why they turned Danar and others like him into super soldiers. And then it turns out that their peaceful society is No Place for a Warrior , especially one who can't stop being a warrior.
• Ramming Always Works : An odd variation. Danar starts what Geordi calls "a suicide run" against the Enterprise , which doesn't come close to damaging her thanks to her Deflector Shields — and then it turns out that it was just a distraction while Danar jumps into an Escape Pod .
• Recycled In SPACE : This episode is First Blood , the first Rambo film, in space.
• Reflexive Response : The key problem the vets have. They can't turn their Super-Soldier instincts off. They could easily kill someone by mistake if their survival instinct is triggered.
• Science Is Bad : In the teaser, Prime Minister Nayrok tells Picard and Riker that the Angosians "are not warriors" , and prefer to devote their culture's efforts to intellectual pursuits. He is not wrong: a less intellectually developed society might not have succeeded in creating a Super-Soldier so proficient that he was able to outfox the entire crew of a Galaxy -class starship - twice.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here : When Roga and his fellows capture the leaders who have been insisting that Picard has no right to interfere in their internal affairs, he takes the opportunity to throw their words back in their faces and then leaves them to their uncertain fate.
• Super-Soldier : What Roga and his fellow citizens were turned into. Thoroughly Deconstructed , as this leaves them unable to function in normal society and leads to them becoming outcasts who are only useful in war.
• Tattooed Crook : Roga and the other veterans have small tattoos on each side of their foreheads.
• Trail Of Breadcrumbs : During his second escape, Roga goes around opening panels, which the bridge crew can detect. It soon becomes obvious that he must be doing so intentionally as misdirection.
• Underling with an F in PR : When Picard and Troi call out Nayrok for the Angosian government's heartless treatment of the soldiers, Nayrok repeats all his previous platitudes about how the Super-Soldier conditioning is considered to be irreversible, how no one was happy with "resettling" the soldiers to a Penal Colony , "but we had to act for the greater good." Then his adjutant, Zayner, adds, "besides, we may need to use them again someday" - effectively admitting that the government never seriously tried to reverse the conditioning. Picard and Troi are about to verbally tear the entire Angosian government a new one, when they are interrupted by Danar and the soldiers storming into the building.
• What Happened to the Mouse? : The franchise never follows up on what happens to the Angosians, save for Picard recommending that The Federation reject their application.
• The Worf Effect : Roga Danar establishes his danger by stomping on two security personnel and O'Brien at the same time. The trope namer comes into effect in Act 5, when Worf squares off with Roga mano a mano and loses, showing that this threat is another one that Worf can't solve by punching it.
• How Worf views Danar. Worf: You are cunning. You must have Klingon blood.
• Danar also seems to view the Enterprise crew as this. Especially Data, as indicated when they have a reasonably amicable chat in the brig .
• Xanatos Speed Chess : Danar vs the Enterprise crew twice. Our heroes get him the first time, but the second time he escapes.
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Roga Danar is a male Angosian who lived during the mid- 24th century .

• 1.1 Early life
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Biography [ ]

Early life [ ].

At the time of the Tarsian War Danar was an idealistic young man who answered his people's call to service by joining the Angosian military . Danar served in many campaigns during the war, and received 2 promotions to the rank of Subhadar .

When faced by defeat due to their primitive technology , Roga and hundreds of other prime soldiers were selected for an enhanced soldier program, which was ordered by Prime Minister Nayrok . In this program soldiers went through intense psychological manipulation and biochemical modifications, and mental "programming" that forced Danar and the other soldiers to become the perfect soldier. The intelligence, memory, strength and reflexes were all enhanced and compelled these soldiers to survive at any cost. When the first of the enhanced soldiers returned from the war victorious, they were unable to control themselves during peacetime - a lost temper could lead to murder.

The Angosian government found they had two choices, which was to rehabilitate the soldiers, or hold them on Lunar V . Put to a vote of the Angosian populace, the second option was chosen. All the soldiers were relocated to Lunar V, a military facility where the enhanced soldiers could be contained in case the government needed to use them again in any conflicts in the future. Though initially it was under their control and most of the soldiers were comfortable, Nayrok had security implemented on the base when Danar and a few others began to resist the Angoisan government.

In 2366 , while Angosia III was applying to join the United Federation of Planets , Danar successfully escaped from Lunar V, killing 2 security guards and sabotaging the base's tracking station. This left Lunar V in a state of chaos while Danar got away in a transport ship. Without adequately trained pilots to pursue him, Nayrok asked the visiting USS Enterprise -D to detain him, claiming he was a "dangerous criminal". Although Roga was initially successful by using several different methods of hiding and deception from the ship's sensors (from which he learned during his time in the army). He ultimately was brought on board and overpowered by Commander William Riker and Lieutenant Worf (but not before injuring crewmembers Sonya Gomez , Kieran Duffy , Gar Costa , Cliff Meyers , and Koji Oliver ). ( TNG episode : " The Hunted "; SCE eBook : Many Splendors )

While in custody in the Enterprise -D's brig , Counselor Deanna Troi sensed something disturbing; although Roga was incredibly dangerous when threatened, he was calm, remorseful about his time in the war, and terrified of returning to Lunar V, when he was at peace. She reported her suspicions to Captain Jean-Luc Picard , and stated that inherently that he had a non-violent personality. Picard at first was unwilling to intervene on Danar's behalf. Troi then approached Data to search Angosian computer records to find out more about Danar's background, and then learned that Danar was a soldier.

This led Troi and the rest of the senior staff to discover the truth about the Angosian's enhanced soldier program. Doctor Crusher reported that Danar's physiology had been significantly altered, and Troi reported that he had been subjected to intensive psychological conditioning. She also reported that Danar had not committed any crimes and had been ordered to report to Lunar V. Despite what they learned, Captain Picard was legally obliged to return Roga to the arriving Angosian security personnel. ( TNG episode : " The Hunted ")

When the Enterprise crew tried to beam Danar on to an Angosian police shuttle , Roga was able to break free of the transporter beam - a feat that Picard had never seen anyone accomplish before. ( TNG novel : Q-Strike ) Roga led Enterprise security on a chase throughout the ship. Planting a phaser set to overload next to the external sensor controls, he then headed for a cargo bay . When the phaser exploded, it took out the external sensors. After a brief struggle with Worf, Danar beamed himself on to the police vessel, but instead of the holding cell as originally intended, he beamed himself into the pilot compartment, and hijacked the vessel. ( TNG episode : " The Hunted ")

Now free, Roga attacked Lunar V, allowing hundreds of fellow enhanced soldiers to rebel and overpower the guards. Twelve of them joined with Roga and went back to Angosia III, where they held Nayrok and the other ministers hostage and demanded to let them come home. Picard convinced Nayrok to allow Roga and his fellow soldiers return home. The Federation gave assistance in helping to rehabilitate the soldiers, who were given treatments for the alterations they received when they went into the original soldier program. Though Roga retained his physical and mental enhancements, he gained a partial-relief from his mental instabilities, giving much peace of mind. ( TNG episode : " The Hunted ")

Later life [ ]

In 2374 , during the Dominion War , Roga was recruited by Section 31 to prevent the Dominion from seizing control of the Guardian of Forever on Planet Gateway . After completing his mission successfully, Roga asked the Guardian what it desired. When it said it wanted freedom, Roga granted it permission to leave Gateway, which it did. ( DS9 - Strange New Worlds 9 short story : " Orphans ")

Appendices [ ]

External link [ ].

• Roga Danar article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• Roga Danar article at the Star Trek Timelines Wiki .
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The U.S.S. Enterprise visits the planet Angosia, which recently emerged victorious from a lengthy war and is now seeking membership in the Federation. During the visit, a violent prisoner in Angosia's penal colony escapes and is later captured with the help of the crew. The escapee, Roga Danar, is detained aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise while repairs to the damaged prison can be completed. Although Troi has been warned that Danar is extremely dangerous, she is drawn to him when she senses that he is being tortured by nightmares. Meeting with the prisoner, she comes to believe that he is inherently non-violent, despite his reputation. jssor_1_slider_init(); [ Complete Screencap Index ] A check of Danar's records reveals that he is a military prisoner who served Angosia honorably in the recent war. He informs Troi that when he volunteered for service, his government conducted intense psychological and biochemical modifications on him and his fellow soldiers. When the men, programmed for violence in any situation threatening their survival, had difficulty readjusting to civilian life, they were exiled to Lunar V. Confronted by Picard with Danar's story, Angosian Prime Minister Nayrok basically tells him to mind his own business and insists that the prisoner be returned. Picard reluctantly informs Danar that he will be sent back to prison via a police shuttle. But during the transfer, Danar hijacks the shuttle and returns to Lunar V, where he leads an assault on the prison. Nayrok then sends an urgent message to Picard, informing him that hundreds of rioting prisoners are headed for the Angosian capitol. In response to Nayrok's pleas, Picard leads an Away Team to Angosia, where he finds Nayrok and the members of his senate arming themselves against an attack. Just then, Danar and his comrades burst in, but knowing that the veterans will not kill unless their own lives are threatened, Picard vows that he and his crew will not fire upon the prisoners. Instead, Nayrok is urged to take steps to reprogram the soldiers and welcome them back into society - only then, Picard asserts upon leaving Nayrok and Danar, will the Federation reconsider the planet's application for membership.

James Cromwell Has Played More Star Trek Characters Than You Likely Realize

The one role in the Star Trek franchise with which fans are most likely to associate actor James Cromwell is that of warp drive inventor Zefram Cochrane in the 1996 film "Star Trek: First Contact." He also reprised this character in the pilot episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise" and the Season 3 premiere of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" in August of 2022. However, before his debut as Cochrane, Cromwell was a Star Trek veteran, with three prior, unrelated roles already under his belt.

First, Cromwell joined the franchise in 1990 as Angosian Prime Minster Nayrok in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 3, Episode 11. Three years later, Cromwell returned to "TNG" for Season 6, Episodes 16 and 17. He plays a character named Jaglom Shrek — predating the 2001 "Shrek" film but following the 1990 publication of its literary source material. Finally, he's a Karemman diplomat named Hanok in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Season 4, Episode 6.

In an interview published on the official Star Trek website , Cromwell shared that Star Trek is even something of a family tradition. His ex-wife Julie Cobb, he explained, appeared in "The Original Series," whereas her daughter Rosemary Morgan showed up in "Star Trek: Voyager." Cromwell, meanwhile, recounted having a hard time keeping track of each of his individual Star Trek appearances. "I enjoyed my experiences," he said. "But I have to be honest and tell you they were a long time ago and they've kind of blurred together."

James Cromwell's acting career spans decades

The fact that James Cromwell was never quite a leading man in Star Trek but impacted the franchise through repeated appearances is somewhat reflective of his career as a whole. In total, his filmography consists of more than 190 credits in movies and on TV, many of which are parts as secondary or tertiary characters in well-known projects.

Much of his early work consists of brief appearances on popular shows like "The Rockford Files," "M*A*S*H," "Night Court," and "Matlock," starting in the '70s and continuing through the '90s. He then earned his first and only Oscar nomination in the 1996 best supporting actor category for the role of Babe's (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh) owner, Arthur Hoggett, in the 1995 "Babe" movie. Other notable films he's worked on include "L.A. Confidential," "The Green Mile," and "The Queen."

His first Emmy nomination, notably, came in 2000 for a role in a TV movie titled "RKO 281." After that, he earned guest actor nominations in 2001 and 2003 for "ER" and "Six Feet Under," respectively. He finally won a supporting actor in a miniseries or movie Emmy in 2013 for his "American Horror Story" Season 2 role. Finally, he was nominated in 2020, 2022, and 2023 for his portrayal of Cousin Greg's (Nicholas Braun) grandfather Ewan Roy on "Succession." TV, then, is arguably his principal medium, so his repeated appearances on Star Trek TV shows are effectively par for the course.

How Star Trek Made LeVar Burton Actually Glow For Its Identity Crisis Episode

In the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "Identity Crisis" (March 25, 1991), Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) meets an old friend, Lieutenant Commander Susanna Leijten (Maryann Plunkett), the only surviving member of a mission they both went on years before. It seems that their compatriots have gone missing or stolen shuttlecrafts to return to the planet Tarchannen III, where they were last united. Soon after her arrival, Leijten also begins exhibiting weird behavior, twitching nervously and demanding a visit to Tarchannen III. Her body begins to mutate. Her fingers fuse together and eerie blue veins appear on her skin. Her eyes turn yellow. It's all Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) can do to slow the mutations.

Geordi, while unattended, also suddenly begins to mutate. He eventually returns to Tarchannen III, having turned into a near-invisible creature that can only be seen under a special blacklight. Leijten has to overcome her own mutations and communicate with Geordi before his transformation becomes irreversible.

"Identity Crisis" is a good body-horror episode of "Star Trek," and perhaps shouldn't be watched in the dark alone. The scene where Geordi recreates a shadow on the holodeck is one of the scariest in the show's history.

In order to achieve the look of the invisible alien, Burton had to undergo a full-body makeup process  that involved a facial prosthetic, contact lenses, a lot of painted-on veins, alien gloves, and alien feet. It was the most makeup Burton ever had to wear on "The Next Generation."

In the book "Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages" edited by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, "Crisis" director David Livingston recalled the makeup process in detail, as well as the complex lighting the episode required. Livingston used U/V light on set, a first for the series.

The Mark & Brian Show

Some fun trivia: local KLOS DJs Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, stars of "The Mark & Brian Show," played two additional aliens in the episode. They had no lines and just lurched past the camera. They also didn't have to undergo the same makeup process that Burton did, wearing full-body stockings and masks instead. The issue was getting the aliens to glow as it said in the script, a problem Livingston presented to his producer, Peter Lauritson. After checking out some test footage, Livingston went to longtime "Trek" makeup artist Michael Westmore and longtime costumer Robert Blackman about achieving the look. Livingston explained:

"We were talking about how we're going to make these guys glow and Peter Lauritson said to me, 'Why don't we try ultraviolet?' [...] I said because we had done a test the year before. I almost dismissed it, but then pulled out the tape and looked at it, and said this stuff is great. [I] went to Michael Westmore and Bob Blackman and said we want to do this, and they designed these suits and we painted them with U/V [paint] and put these contact lenses into this woman's eyes that glowed. [...] LeVar looked fabulous."

The costumes looked great, and they did indeed glow under a blacklight, a phenomenon anyone who has visited a commercial haunted house has likely encountered. The next problem, however, was lighting a set with blacklight-activated aliens on it. It seems that Livingston had to employ a special kind of blue lamp on set to bathe everything in a low, even color. This was in addition to the white lights needed to illuminate the actors. This kind of lighting had never been done on "Next Generation," a show that typically featured clean and even lighting.

The blue beacon

Livingston described the lighting rig as follows:

"We used heavy blue light for the set lighting, and it's different lighting than you see elsewhere because all the source coming from behind the camera is blue light. That's a decision we made and it should look harsh and unrealistic and not well-lit because it's not lit from one single blue source. It's basically a beacon shining out. It looked different than anything else and that was intentional." 

It was certainly strange-looking, giving off a ghostly vibe that wasn't used elsewhere in the series. Livingston noted that it worked well before adding that, after 1991, many other photographers and TV-makers started to use a stylized U/V light to create glowing images, notably in music videos. He continued:

"What I was surprised at was how powerful the U/V reflected back, and MTV is using it a lot now. I liked our use because it was integrated into the story. We used it to make it work dramatically rather than doing it as an effect. To me, that was a major accomplishment. We didn't do it to just be glitzy, we did it because it tied in dramatically with the story."

The makeup on Burton took four makeup artists and six full hours to apply. It was not just Burton's most extensive makeup job but the longest application in the history of the series. Luckily for Geordi, he was spared a subplot in the "Crisis" script wherein he and Leijten experienced a stalled romance. Geordi had already experienced several stalled romances , and piling another one on the character seemed cruel. The showrunners merely mutated him into an alien instead.

Kids Building Bikes hopes to shift gears for next generation of Indy's youth

It’s all smiles at Nine13sports as the sun sets on Thursday, March 21. 

“You guys are officially graduates of Kids Building Bikes,” said Kevin Duitsman, the curriculum and instructional facilitator, followed with a resounding cheer by a handful of teenagers and their parents. “You’re the 404th graduates of Kids Building Bikes.

After completing 16 hours of all the hands-on work that goes into building a bicycle during Nine13sports’ month-long program, the group finally got to feel the air blow through their hair and the sun shine on their faces while riding their brand new bicycles through Riverside Park near the nonprofit's headquarters. 

“(The program) was incredible. I really liked learning the ropes and getting the hang of stuff," Isaac Stuller said. "Even though it was hard, in the end, it just made me feel like a better engineer. When I rode it, I was like, ‘I built this.’ It makes me feel good inside.” 

Stuller is one of five students participating in the program from Independence Academy, a local school designed for students with autism. 

“In our mind, I was not expecting this. I was expecting kind of an auto repair place with bikes everywhere and things everywhere,” Jnai Stuller, Isaac’s mom said. “And with (Isaac) being autistic, we were like, ‘can they handle … I don’t know,’ and it’s just, the staff’s amazing. I think it’s one of the best programs I’ve ever seen."

It’s safe to say that most adults haven’t built a bicycle from beginning to end, let alone spend 16 hours in a workshop practicing how to use an array of tools, learning proper safety techniques and dirtying up their hands with grease. 

In a historical automobile warehouse along North Indianapolis’ Central Canal Towpath, Matty Bennett and Duitsman are making sure that changes by helping the next generation. 

Kids Building Bikes Open Enrollment: Learn more about how to sign up for classes

Bennett, the Building Bikes director with a storied background in bicycles, motorcycles, teaching and design, and Duitsman, a “lifer,” in a bike shop where he worked as a mechanic for the past 27 years before a brief stint as an award-winning Indianapolis Public Schools teacher during the pandemic, agree that Kids Building Bikes is all about “exposing kids to bicycles that wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to bicycles,” Duitsman said.

After each Kids Building Bikes class ends, Duitsman said that the No. 1 bit of feedback they get from parents is a growth of confidence within their children.

"This is giving bicycles back to youth and hopefully inspiring them to pick up another healthy habit," Duitsman said. "They may never touch a bicycle again, but they might become an auto mechanic, they might become an engineer."

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Nayrok was a male Angosian who was the Prime Minister of Angosia III in the 24th century .

In 2366 , he represented his people in applying for Federation membership, and was answered with a visit from the USS Enterprise -D . However, a major incident occurred in which one of the Lunar V prisoners, Roga Danar , escaped on a transport. Nayrok and Zayner requested assistance from the crew of the Enterprise in apprehending Danar. He was captured on the Enterprise and escaped again, but not before the crew learned of his background as a genetically-engineered and psychologically altered soldier. When Captain Jean-Luc Picard attempted to speak with Nayrok on the matter, Nayrok refused to cooperate on the basis that it was a matter of internal security, which obliged Picard to comply.

Nayrok was soon confronted directly by Danar when he managed to use another transport to free other prisoners of Lunar V and invade the government building in a full insurrection. Nayrok called Picard for help, however, Picard, disgusted at Nayrok's hypocrisy, declined to involve Starfleet further in what he pointed out Nayrok earlier insisted was clearly an internal matter other than to note that his official report will include the blatant systematic sentient rights violation discovered, which means Angosia III's application will be refused. With that Picard and his crew left Nayrok, horrified that he inadvertently given the Starfleet officer a clear rationale to abandon him, and the Angosian government to come to an accord with the veterans on their own. ( TNG : " The Hunted ")

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Star trek: discovery’s enterprise crossover made 1 of burnham’s crew very happy.

One member of Star Trek: Discovery's crew loves Constitution Class starships and Disco meeting the USS Enterprise must have made him happy.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 3 - "Jinaal"

• Lt. Commander Gen Rhys, Discovery's Chief Tactical Officer, revealed his love for 23rd-century Constitution Class starships.
• The USS Discovery fought alongside the Constitution Class USS Enterprise in Star Trek: Discovery season 2, which must have thrilled Rhys.
• Star Trek: Picard's Jack Crusher is also an admirer of Captain Kirk's Constitution Class USS Enterprise.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5 reveals one of the USS Discovery's crew was very happy when the USS Enterprise crossed over. In a shocking twist, the Starship Enterprise intercepted the USS Discovery in the final moments of Star Trek: Discovery season 1's finale. This opened the door for Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) to take command of the USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery season 2. Pike, along with Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) proved to be so popular, that they received their own spinoff, which became Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery have left their 23rd-century lives long behind. Now living in the year 3191, Burnham and Discovery are hot on the trail of the Progenitors' ancient technology that can create life , itself, which was discovered by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the USS Enterprise-D in the 24th century of Star Trek: The Next Generation . Aboard the USS Discovery, Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) is under orders to get to know his new crew, which led to a revelation about Lt. Commander Gen Rhys (Patrick Kwok-Choon) and his love for Constitution Class starships.

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Star trek: discovery's gen rhys loves strange new worlds' uss enterprise, discovery teamed up with the enterprise in season 2.

During Lt. Commander Gen Rhys' extremely brief meeting with Commander Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3, "JInaal," he was asked to describe something personal in 20 words or less. The USS Discovery's Chief Tactical Officer revealed he loves Constitution Class starships. Rhys told Rayner and Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman:

"I'm a real ship-head. Love the Crossfield, but something about the curves of a 23rd-century Constitution Class just gets me."

Rhys was the USS Discovery's Tactical Officer throughout Star Trek: Discovery season 2, and Gen must have secretly been thrilled when the Disco teamed up with the USS Enterprise . The classic Constitution Class Enterprise, NCC-1701, was kept out of the fighting during the Klingon War, but it saw plenty of action when it joined the Crossfield Class USS Discovery in the final battle against Control. Lt. Rhys, as he was ranked at that time, likely enjoyed being so close to the most legendary Constitution Class ship in Starfleet before Discovery jumped to the 32nd century.

Star Trek: Picard's Jack Crusher Also Loves The Constitution Class USS Enterprise

"all those perfectly clean retro lines.".

Long after Starfleet retired the 23rd century Constitution Class, the USS Enterprise found another admirer in the 25th century: Star Trek: Picard' s Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers). In Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 6, "The Bounty," Jack confessed his love of Captain James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) USS Enterprise-A to Commander Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) when the USS Titan-A was docked at the Fleet Museum on Athan Prime :

"Well, this one's my personal favorite. Kirk's Enterprise. All those perfectly clean retro lines. Yep, I'm definitely a Constitution Class man."

The reverence Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard have for the 23rd-century Constitution Class isn't surprising. The Starship Enterprise boasts an iconic design, and it's one of the most distinctive and unforgettable spaceships in pop culture. Star Trek has featured numerous beautiful starships, but the Crossfield Class USS Discovery and the Constitution Class USS Titan-A are essentially variants of the original USS Enterprise design . The 23rd century Constitution Class USS Enterprise is a true classic, and Lt. Commander Gen Rhys got to see it up close in Star Trek: Discovery seasons 1 and 2.

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Alt-space history series 'For All Mankind' gets 5th season, new 'Star City' spinoff

"We... can't wait to dive into this next chapter of the engrossing 'For All Mankind' universe."

Apple TV+ is headed back to the past, and the future, with another season of the alternate space history drama "For All Mankind" and a new spinoff series, "Star City." The streaming service announced the fifth season renewal and companion show on Wednesday (April 17), confirming that creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are returning to head both programs. "With each new season, 'For All Mankind' continues to build out a fascinating world and capture global audiences through high-quality storytelling that has been so skillfully developed by Ron, Matt and Ben," said Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, in a statement . "There is so much to explore and, we along with our partners at Sony, can't wait to dive into this next chapter of the engrossing 'For All Mankind' universe."

Related: 'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 10 review: A season finale that saves the best for last

"For All Mankind" began with the question, What would happen if the Soviet Union beat the United States to landing a man on the moon and the space race of the 1960s never ended? Spanning four decades over the course of its four seasons, the show has now reached the point where the space activities depicted are still in our future but are set in a timeline that is our past. 

Season 4, which concluded in January , was focused on the residents of Happy Valley, an international Mars base, and the pursuit by companies and countries — including the U.S., Soviet Union and North Korea — to mine asteroids . The 10 episodes were set in 2003, with a teaser pointing to the next season still on Mars but picking up in 2012. 

With "Star City," Moore, Wolpert and Nedivi are returning to the 1960s to provide an alternate view of the "For All Mankind" timeline. 

"Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of 'For All Mankind,'" said Wolpert and Nedivi. "The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where the Soviet cosmonauts and engineers worked and lived, the more we wanted to tell this story of the other side of the space race." 

"We could not be more excited to continue building out the alternate history universe of 'For All Mankind' with our partners at Apple and Sony," said the two showrunners.

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Apple TV+ describes "Star City" as "a propulsive paranoid thriller" that takes a second look at what followed Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov first setting foot on the moon in 1969. "For All Mankind" focused primarily on the U.S. side of the story, centering on NASA and its astronauts. "This time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward," reads a synopsis of "Star City." The real Star City, or Zvyozdny gorodok (Звёздный городок), began as a classified Soviet Air Force base. Since the 1960s, it has been home to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, as well as the cosmonaut corps, who live in dachas (homes) within the confines of the still restricted-access facility. Apple TV+'s "Star City" is produced by Moore (whose credits include " Star Trek: The Next Generation " and its spin-off series, as well as the re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica"); Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions and Wolpert and Nedivi, who also serve as the new series' showrunners. Wolpert and Nedivi will also continue to be the showrunners for "For All Mankind." They will also executive produce alongside Moore and Davis, as well as David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Seth Edelstein and Kira Snyder. "For All Mankind" is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television. All four seasons of "For All Mankind" are now streaming globally on Apple TV+.

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