The Killing Game ( episode ) In an attempt to find new ways to satisfy their predatory instincts , the Hirogen alter the memories of the " Voyager " crew and force them into violent holodeck simulations , partially re - creating World War II . Summary . Teaser . Captain Kathryn Janeway , altered to look like a Klingon , battles several other Klingons . A Hirogen , also dressed in Klingon garb , interrupts the battle and stabs her . Using a Starfleet combadge , he calls sickbay to tell them that Janeway needs medical attention . Act One . has been hijacked by the Hirogen and they are using the holodeck s to hunt the crew in various simulation s with the safety protocols deactivated . While half of the crew have been imprisoned , others have been fitted with a neural interface that makes them believe they actually are the characters in the holodeck program . The Hirogen hunt the " Voyager " crew over and over again in various simulations . The wounded are treated in sickbay and then sent back to the holodeck to be hunted again . The Alpha Hirogen , Karr , oversees Janeway being treated by a medic from her injury in Holodeck 2 . He is briefly concerned with the possibility that Janeway might be partly resisting the effects of the neural interface , but the medic insists he ' s been monitoring and nothing is wrong . Karr has found a new program to try , and has Janeway transferred to Holodeck 1 this time . After she is treated in sickbay , she is sent to a simulation of World War II . There , Janeway , Seven of Nine , Neelix , Lieutenant Commander Tuvok and Lt . jg B ' Elanna Torres are put in a simulation of the Nazi occupation of Sainte Claire , France . They are running a café , Le Coeur de Lion , but are secretly working for the French Resistance , while the Hirogen are working alongside the Nazis . Seven of Nine , or Mademoiselle de Neuf as she is called in the simulation , is a lounge singer , Janeway , or Katrine , is the café owner , and Tuvok is the bartender . The first scene of the French simulation begins with Seven singing " It Can ' t Be Wrong " . ( ) Karr and the Beta Hirogen , Turanj visit the café , both dressed in Nazi uniform . Karr ' s character is of a Nazi " Standartenführer " newly assigned to oversee the city ' s occupation . He had worked under Rommel in Africa and Schmidt in Poland . Turanj is immediately eager to hunt and destroy the " Voyager " crew as prey , but Karr tells him to " play the game " and to leave when he starts to harass Seven ' s character . Katrine comes to talk to Karr , exchanging introductions . Katrine asks that they " keep the war outside " like she tells all her guests . Karr plays the character well , and announces his intentions to intercept Resistance forces who are sure to arrive . Turanj comes back to announce a problem that the warp plasma network has become unstable . Katrine doesn ' t know what that means , but Karr dismisses it and leaves her with a toast , " to the hunt " ( for the Resistance ) . When the café is closed , it serves as a secret base for the Resistance . Janeway ' s character is the leader of the Resistance cell in Sainte Claire , with Tuvok ' s character as her right - hand man . Seven ' s character is a munitions expert and an able singer , needed by the Resistance . However , Seven is tired of playing along with the Nazis and wants to prepare to fight . In a striking parallel to their own selves , she and Janeway ' s character argue on the course of action until Janeway pulls rank and orders her to stop , instead going to buy components for a radio so they can gather more information for the Allied High Command . Tuvok joins her after Seven leaves , and , in further analogy to their real life , they contemplate her increasing disobedience . Janeway has Tuvok get someone to follow her , suspecting a possible defection . If they can ' t count on her , they ' ll have to kill her . Act Two . The next day , Neelix ' character is happily riding a bicycle through town with food when he is stopped by Nazi forces led by Turanj . He tears up his bread and pours out his wine looking for possible smuggling activity , but finds none . He threatens Neelix , but says it isn ' t up to him and lets him go . Meanwhile , the Resistance , now with B ' Elanna Torres , or Brigitte , present , is in the café going over their intelligence . Brigitte is decoding messages from the Allies . She is pregnant with the baby of a Nazi Kapitän , with whom she is involved in a romantic relationship in order to gather information for the Resistance . Neelix serves as a courier for the Resistance , and soon arrives with a message on the other side of the label of a wine bottle containing the key to deciphering the latest radio message . It tells them that the Allied forces will arrive within days and they must assist by disabling the Nazi ' s communications . Torres ' character has a plan , and Katrine approves , ordering a positive response for the Allies . Later , Brigitte feigns illness in front of the building where her lover works to get in . Inside , the Kapitän is talking with his superior , Karr , relishing in his ownership of a painting . Karr challenges the Kapitän ' s feeling of superiority with his beliefs that he doesn ' t deserve any spoils if he conquered a weakened prey and , furthermore , will fail if he underestimates his prey further . When Brigitte arrives , Karr leaves them alone . On the ground , Turanj gets dissatisfied with " playing the game " and complains to a fellow Hirogen that he has learned enough about their prey . Upon sight of Neelix , he shoots him and Seven when she retaliates . They are taken to sickbay . Act Three . In sickbay , The Doctor is asked to attend to their injuries . He insists that they stop these brutalities because the bodies of the crew have not been designed for this kind of punishment . " " For the past three weeks " , " says The Doctor , " " they have been stabbed , shot , beaten , phasered and bat ' leth ed " " after which he is forced to attend to them just so they can be sent back for more . The Hirogen however , refuse to listen , even when The Doctor asks that they at least activate the holodeck safety protocol s . It is decided that Neelix is to be sent to the Klingon simulation , and Seven back to the World War II simulation after their wounds have been treated . Back on the bridge , the Hirogen are forcing Ensign Harry Kim ( one of the few remaining crew not to have been sent into the holodeck or locked away ) to expand the holodeck grids so that they can expand the holo - projectors into all surrounding sections . Kim joins Ashmore in a corridor to work . Kim has Ashmore distract one of the Hirogen guards so that he can transfer The Doctor out of sickbay ( with newly installed holoemitters in the corridor ) and tell him about his plan to get the crew back . Before they can begin to recover the crew , they need to disable the neural interface s . He has found a way to tap into the sickbay diagnostic console but somebody has got to be inside the holodeck to engage the bridge control relays . They decide to use Seven ' s help for this task . In the ready room , Karr tells Turanj that he has been studying " Voyager " s database looking for their next simulation . He tells him that there are many to chose from because Human s have a violent history . When World War II is over , he plans to engage the Borg by recreating the Battle of Wolf 359 . However , this will be one hunt Turanj will never see if he continues to disobey him . Karr tells him that his lust for the kill has blinded him , like it has blinded many young hunters . He tells Turanj that if the younger hunters took the time to study their prey , to understand its behavior , they might learn something because each prey exposes them to another way of life while at the same time making them re - evaluate their own . He wonders what will become of the Hirogen when they have hunted this territory to exhaustion : a way of life that hasn ' t changed in a thousand years . He complains that they have lost their identity , that they have allowed their predatory instincts to dominate them – turning them into a solitary race , isolated , no longer a culture . He insists that their people must come back together , combine forces and rebuild their civilization . Karr believes the hunt will always continue but in a new way , for he intends to transform this ship into a vast simulation , eventually replicating the technology which will allow them to hold on to their past while they face the future . Turanj is convinced that Karr is right , albeit very reluctantly , for he knows that others might not agree with Karr ' s assessment . Act Four . In sickbay , The Doctor manages to wake Seven , explaining to her that he has found a way to disable the interface by remodulating one of her Borg implants to emit a jamming signal to interfere with her neural interface implant . Once she is back on the holodeck , the jamming signal will activate within seconds at which moment she must find the control panel inside the holodeck and engage the bridge access relays so he and Kim can deactivate all the neural interfaces . Unfortunately , she doesn ' t know anything about World War II , so she ' ll have to figure it out as she goes along . Back in the World War II simulation , Seven , as de Neuf , is singing " That Old Black Magic " on stage , when the jamming signal activates . At that moment she quickly excuses herself and gets off the stage . Janeway is pumping commandant Karr for information , and wants him to stay so she quickly goes to order de Neuf back on stage . Seven refuses , and , since her character has shown resistance to Janeway in the past , suspicions that she is a Nazi sympathizer are coming to a head with her new unwillingness to continue to sing . Meanwhile , the Allied troops are preparing to arrive in Sainte Claire , with Chakotay as Captain Miller and Tom Paris as Lieutenant Bobby Davis . Davis has been to Sainte Claire before the war and was involved with Brigitte . Davis briefly relates his longing to see her again to Miller . The French Resistance finalize their plan to infiltrate the Nazi headquarters to disable the Nazi ' s communications and Seven assists them . Tuvok will keep watch while Katrine and de Neuf plant the bomb . Brigitte will wait in the café and destroy evidence if necessary . However , Seven doesn ' t prepare the bombs properly and Katrine questions her . Seven promises she does not have second thoughts about the plan . Act Five . Kim , in the mess hall , brings The Doctor to him to coordinate their plan . They ' re interrupted by Turanj and another Hirogen , but Kim successfully convinces them he has to leave to go back to the bridge . In Saint Claire , Seven and Katrine reach the Kapitän ' s office and subdue a telegraph operator . While Katrine looks at the most recent message from the radio transmitter , Seven ignores placing the bombs and finds a holodeck control panel . In the process , she trips an indicator that Kim notices on the bridge who , in turn , is able to give The Doctor , in sickbay , control over the neural interfaces . The Doctor successfully overrides the interface just as he is detained by the Hirogen medic . In the Nazi office , Katrine notices de Neuf has not yet planted the charges and sees her accessing the interface . She doesn ' t know what it is and assumes de Neuf is a traitor and has been sending messages to the Nazis . She points her pistol at Seven but when she is about to pull the trigger , Janeway ' s interface is disabled . Karr , in the Klingon simulation with Neelix ' s character , is informed of The Doctor ' s actions and orders a team into the World War II simulation to remove Janeway while he confronts Kim on the bridge . Tuvok stays hidden outside and intercepts the Hirogen , not in Nazi uniforms but instead their Hirogen armor and weapons . Fortunately , the Americans arrive just in time . Miller ' s team helps Tuvok ' s character while Davis finds Brigitte at Resistance headquarters . Soon , artillery barrages strike the Nazi headquarters and create a simulated explosion , blowing a hole in the holodeck wall . The " Voyager " characters do not know what to make of it because the program is still running . Miller believes it ' s a secret Nazi installation and orders all units to invade . Kim , on the bridge , says the controls don ' t work , and now Karr has a real war . Seven and Janeway escape through the hole and the troops begin charging into the " Nazi bunker " , taking the war to the rest of the ship . Memorable quotes . " " When the Americans arrive and the fighting begins , I don ' t intend to be standing next to a piano singing " Moonlight Becomes You . " " " " " I must discontinue this activity . I am not well . " " " " Straight from Allied High Command . " " " " It must be important . " " " " All messages regarding the war are important . It ' s only a matter of degree . " " " " I suppose you ' re right , but do you have to be so . . . logical about everything ? " " " " In any covert battle , logic is a potent weapon . You might try it sometime . " " " " You ' ve circumvented our control ! How ? " " " " Go to hell ! " " " " We ' ve got to stop meeting like this . " " " " You wanted a war ? It looks like you ' ve got one . " " Links and references . References . 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