The Hunted

Imagine giving someone the escape artistry of a Harry Houdini and the killing ability of everyone else. Now, imagine trying to keep that person from getting what he wants. It sounds farfetched, though maybe not as much as you think. Find out when we put The Hunted in the Mission Log. Anyone catch the reference of hiding in the planets magnetic poles and why Riker knows this tactic? Reference to “Peak Performance”. Cool!! It probably isn’t the case that someone was making a near perfect analogy to the situation and meaning that can be taken from this, and I don’t know if you guys just avoided it and talked around it on purpose, but it has a lot to do with the sexism issue and the marginalization of men. This episode could be seen as a “Hey don’t objectify men” episode, which is what the Angosans are doing. Or could be pointing out that a lot of women will use this type of argument, especially veterans (which is why they are homeless if they are not psychologically damaged), on the men in their lives to remove the man’s property and have it forcefully given to the woman. This behavior in turn causes them issues with getting jobs which in turn causes the situation to spiral worse and worse. This can easily be taken from this and is extremely relevant to present day and to what people are trying to slander others with, down to the whole suicidal nature of the soldiers, but, again, I don’t think they were quite getting at this here especially since a lot of this is wasn’t looked at back then. I think it is more along the lines what you guys are saying… where someone took their experiences and observations of veterans and wrote a story about it. I didn’t get an objectify vibe from this episode. I got a “disposable” people impression, which is what I think of Iraq/Afghanistan Vietnam etc when politicians START wars…but have no idea how to end them. I thought of our recent wars watching this episode, and “The Defector”. Wars, “fun” to start…hard to end…and clean up after… You don’t dispose of people. You dispose of objects. Armies are people being used as objects, in particular weapons. When they say “well we voted and decided not to” that’s what you do to objects, not people, because if you were treating them as people you would recognize that they should be treated as all other people to be taken care of and not be put away in some little hole to forgotten. I wish that were always the case. But sadly humanity is not there yet… Hopefully the Angosians are a step closer! We should not dispose or view humans as disposable but some humans do. Human trafficking, prostitution, homelessness, child soldiers/workers, elder abuse. Sad. I think human empathy toward one another will not significantly improve as a whole until we get a comprehensive global birth control program going. Regions, countries who have more births/population growth than their socities can feed, employ or educate inevitably become the disposable class for “modern” socities. Cheap manpower…Angosia 3 should have had a comprehensive deprogramming system in place before ever creating on super soldier. I was thinking the same thing! he was like a more fit Nealon I think of Wolverine/Weapon X, Captain America/Winter Soldier gone bad when I think of the issues you brought up regarding weaponizing people. I didn’t make the leap to hard tech, like you did w/ this particular episode, that would have been “Arsenal of Freedom”. “The Hunted” seems more in line w concerns for Khan Singh or even Dr. Julian Bashir types..(who’s that?!?!) lol. This is another reason I dislike prequels like Enterprise because the use of Augments by Noonien Soongh seemed well documented so Angosias super soldier program should NOT seem so outlandish. Another ongoing issue w Trek is their use of energy dependent security detention cells. Just use old fashioned bars!! and having back up old fashioned guns would be a good idea too!! boy that fight choreography sure looked dated eh? I loved the violent