The Killing Game Line-by-Line

[May 20]

EMH: Let's hear it.

 

[CaptVader]

KIM: Before we can retake the ship, we've got to get the crew back. That means disabling the neural interfaces.

 

[Athena28]

EMH: Easier said than done. The great Hunters are everywhere you turn.

 

[Orac]

Kim: Don't worry, I think I've found a way to tap into the Sickbay diagnostic console. The only catch is

(The guard and Ashmore return.)

Kim: Standby with the emitter. I'm almost done here.

(Kim goes around the corner and the EMH reappears.)

 

[Athena28]

EMH: The catch, Ensign?

 

[May 20]

KIM: Somebody's got to be inside the holodeck to engage the bridge control relays.

 

[Orac]

EMH: We're short-handed.

 

[CaptVader]

KIM: I know.

 

[Orac]

EMH: Well, we've got a Borg on board, don't we? Maybe we can put her to good use.

 

[May 20]

[Ready room]

(Redecorated in the Hirogen style. The Hirogen SS officer enters.)
KARR: I've been studying Voyager's database looking for our next simulation. There are many to choose from. These people have a violent history. I believe I've found a worthy prey. The Borg. When World War Two is over, we will recreate a notorious battle known as Wolf 359.

 

[Orac]

Turanj: I look forward to it.

 

[CaptVader]

KARR: I thought you might. But if you continue to disobey me, this is one hunt you will never see. You nearly destroyed two of my favourite prey. You were careless.

 

[Athena28]

TURANJ: I've become impatient. We penetrated this vessel, overcame their defenses, and in the moment of the kill, you forced us to stop. Now we play these incessant games. It's time we took our trophies and moved on.

 

[May 20]

KARR: Your lust for the kill has blinded you, like many young hunters. If you took the time to study your prey, to understand its behaviour, you might learn something.

 

[Orac]

Turanj: There is nothing to be learned.

 

[Athena28]

KARR: You're wrong. Each prey exposes us to another way of life and makes us re-evaluate our own. Have you considered our future? What would become of us when we have hunted this territory to exhaustion?

 

[May 20]

TURANJ: We will travel to another part of space, search for new prey, as we have always done.

 

[CaptVader]

KARR: A way of life that hasn't changed for a thousand years.

 

[Orac]

Turanj: Why should it?

 

[Athena28]

KARR: Species that don't change, die. We've lost our way. We've allowed our predatory instincts to dominate us. We disperse ourselves throughout the quadrant, sending ships in all directions. We've become a solitary race, isolated. We've spread ourselves too thin. We're no longer a culture. We have no identity. In another thousand years, no one will remember the name Hirogen. Our people must come back together, combine forces, rebuild our civilization.