Star Trek The Next Generation Logo 'The Hunted'

(Story Code 159)
by Robin Bernheim
Star Trek The Next Generation Cast

The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at Angosia, a world seeking membership in the United Federation of Planets after having emerged victorious in a long-running war. When a violent prisoner named Roga Danar escapes from Lunar V, Angosia's penal colony, the Enterprise crew assists in his recapture, and the man is detained aboard the ship while the prison is repaired. However, Counselor Troi soon senses that Danar is suffering from terrifying nightmares, and becomes convinced that he is inherently non-violent; research into Danar's records reveals that he is a military prisoner who served Angosia honourably during the recent war. Danar tells Troi that when he volunteered for service, his government conducted intense psychological and biochemical modifications on him and his fellow soldiers, programming them to respond with violence to any situation that threatened their survival; however, when these men had difficulty readjusting to civilian life, they were simply exiled to Lunar V. Captain Picard confronts the Angosian Prime Minister, Nayrok, with this information, but the man merely insists that his prisoner be returned. But as Danar is being transferred to via a police shuttle he hijacks the craft and returns to Lunar V and leads an assault on the prison. It is not long before hundreds of rioting prisoners begin heading for the Angosian capitol...

Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Thomas Riker), LeVar Burton (Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Security Chief Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Doctor Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Councelor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lieutenant Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Ensign Wesley Crusher), Jeff McCarthy (Roga Danar), James Cromwell (Nayrok), Colm Meaney (Transporter Chief Miles O’Brien), J. Michael Flynn (Zayner), Andrew Bicknell (Wagnor)

Directed by Cliff Bole
Co-Produced by Hans Beimler and Richard Manning
Produced by Ira Steven Behr
Executive Producers Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry


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8th January, 1990

Notes:
*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data, Transporter Chief Miles O’Brien and Ensign Wesley Crusher