Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season: 3
Episode #: 11
Production #: 159
Episode Name: The Hunted
Original Air Date: 01.08.90

The planet Angosia is seeking admission into the United Federation of Planets and the Enterprise has been sent to review their application. While in orbit, a prisoner named Roga Danar escapes from a penal colony on Lunar V. Deanna Troi finds herself drawn to the violent escapee and soon realizes there is more to the situation than meets the eye.

This was James Cromwell's first Star Trek appearance. He later played Jaglom Shrek in Birthright, Parts I and II, Hanok in the Deep Space Nine episode Starship Down but is best known for playing Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact. He later reprised that role in the Enterprise pilot, Broken Bow.

Jeff McCarthy (Roga Danar) also appeared in the Voyager pilot, Caretaker, Part I as Doctor Fitzgerald.

J. Michael Flynn (Zaynar) portrayed Commander Nijil in the Enterprise episodes Babel One, United and The Aenar.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes as William Thomas Riker
Brent Spiner as Data
LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn as Worf
Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher

Guest Cast:

Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien
Jeff McCarthy as Roga Danar
James Cromwell as Nayrok
J. Michael Flynn as Zaynar
Andrew Bicknell as Wagnor

Director: Cliff Bole
Written By: Robin Bernheim

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Incredibly ANOTHER superb episode.

This third season of TNG was excellent.

Another sympathetic character with depth in Danar. The idea of the hero soldier being mistreated upon their return to society is very much an echo of what happened after Vietnam and their are obvious "First Blood" overtones to this episode.

Excellent thoughtful episode.

Rating = 4

5. The chase scene was the best. Just really was the highlight of this episode. Danar exposition and characterization was wonderfully executed. The tenseness at the end just capped it off beautifully. Exemplary episode.

I gave it a 5. Very well written Vietnam war parable. Picard was good in this one. The moral to be garnered here is "what do we do with our soldiers once they return home from war and find it hard to re-assimilate?" A great question. Makes one ponder the gravity of such a situation.