The crew were brainwashed into thinking they were other people. They were not programmed.
Brainwashing is Programming of the Mind... they are one in the same.... the fact that they required devices to keep them into character is also a suggestion of Programming.
Besides, there's absolutely no reason for the Hirogen to have wanted to bother with super brainwashing them so that they acted exactly as they would have during that time period. They were more interested in creating interesting and hard to do kills. Why waste time and resources on exact historical records?
Because what I'm talking about is basic writting of the story and the training the actors got with operating the props they were given. They already explained in the episode that some of the character's attributes were coming through in their holodeck scenarios, so I can over look that aspect.... my issue was towards their handling of the weapons/props.... I'm sure the Hirogen didn't train every one of the crew on how to operate those weapons or the general lingo of the era, it came with the holodeck program, which, if one wanted to take this to the ST universe explanation, the computer would have known how to design the uniforms accurately and the computer would have been able to obtain the proper physics of the firearms they were using, in that they'd have kick back/recoil, thus forcing Torres's hands to recoil back a bit per shot fired, rather then her "Pew Pew'ing" the gun as if she was throwing the bullets out of the gun..... the holodeck would have programmed the proper sounds of the M1 snapping the metal clip out with a loud "Pling", etc.
Heck if the holodeck can program accurate bars, locations, smells, tastes, people, etc. through TNG, DS9 and Voyager.... why suddenly would the Holodeck make these obvious blunders?
It wouldn't, the logical answer is that the creators of the episode screwed up & didn't pay attention.
I wasn't talking about substituted sounds with my example of Torres.... I was talking about her hand motion when the gun was fired. I'm well aware of the substituted sounds used in Film/TV.
The only comment I made on sound was when Paris's M1 emptied, which lacked any sound at all.
That's of course subjective to the individual and like I said, I imagined to the average viewer, most wouldn't notice these things or perhaps just not care.... in my view it's one of the worst ST episodes I've ever seen which has more to do with the creators of the episodes rather then the actual story.
How do you know it's not tied into our own internal, factual history and that ST is based on some "similar" past as our own?
Sure the whole Khan Singh super race thing isn't actually true to our past history, but considering that concept was created before that time became our past, it doesn't relate to this as an accurate example.... since WWII really occurred before TOS aired, and occurred before this episode.... WWII's reference in many ST episodes was revolved around the Actual WWII and what occurred during it that we all grew up learning about.
It can, and it does.... as an example, how about you take a story that claims to represent the War of 1812, toss in British "Red Coats" into the story, but have them wearing purple coats..... and then tell me that wouldn't detract from the overall story. Or as another example, have them carrying M-16's and tell me that wouldn't detract from the actual story.
As I said, I found nothing really wrong with the story itself (Besides the Prime Directive offense at the end) it's these aspects I mentioned that detract from the overall story in that if someone who actually knows a thing or two about the historical aspects of what's being explained saw this, they would be taken out of the element of the story because you don't actually "Feel" you're there in the story.... because the elements of that story are not real, or at the very least, looks real.
If the actors were sitting in a room reading the script out loud (with feeling) while wearing togas, it would still be a good script.
Costuming is only a small portion of what makes a storyline on screen good.
I already said that these are small parts to the overall story.... where if one thing was wrong it wouldn't be very noticeable or could be easily ignored.... but with a collection of errors in these "small" things, it can and will detract from the story itself, because it's not just what you hear that tells you the whole story, it's also what you see..... especially for film/tv.
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As another thing to add to my gripes about this episode.... there was that part when Janeway was being chased by the Hirogen through the ship and she comes across the area where the Holo emitters were damaged/not completed. She led the Hirogen to this area and he fell for it, walked into the area where the holo emitters didn't work, lost his K98.... but then Janeway picks it up and chases after him.....
.... where the hell did the K98 come from if the holo emitters didn't work there and the one the Hirogen had disappeared?
Even MemoryAlpha doesn't explain exactly what the heck happened:
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Killing_Game,_Part_II_(episode)
".....With her injured leg she can't move as fast as he can. However, she finds an area where the holoemitters do not reach, gets him to move his weapon into it, and then knocks him down, seizing his weapon. Janeway asks him to tell his hunters to stand down but he attacks her and she shoots him."
When watching the episode, he walks into it and it vanishes from his hands.... but then it's on the ground, perfectly fine.
Sounds as if you expected Star Trek to do a documentary on WWII with all the great attention to detail you're asking for. Plus Trek is a show for the general audience. Things are toned down on such a show because it has to meet approval from a ratings board.
Might I suggest "Band of Brothers" instead of Star Trek next time.
Seen it... even it has flaws, but that's a different topic.... I wasn't expecting to have a 100% authentic WWII reference, nor did I ever claim anything of the sort, but there are flaws in those episodes which I haven't seen since the 70's, early 80's..... and I found that through many of the details ST has kept to over the years through similar references, the amount of blundering in the development in this story is pretty surprising and simply isn't up to snuff with other episodes.
None of what I have point out is some unjust amounts of attention to detail..... everybody with a grade 9 education should know what the nazi flag looks like, everybody should know that the greater majority of uniforms of the time for german officers had the arm bands.... and it doesn't take any great amount of study or education/experience to know that firearms have a level of kickback/recoil, thus it shouldn't have been too hard to act like they're producing some kick back, rather then shooting lasers and throwing the gun forward to lob the bullet and expect to actually hit anything.
Believe it or not, but many of these things should be common sense, maybe not for the average viewer, but for those creating the episodes, it should be common sense.
