Gäst skådisar:
Danny Goldring som Alpha Hirogen
Mark Metcalf som Hirogen sjukvårdare
Mark Deakins som Hirogen SS Officer
J. Paul Boehmer som the Kapitan
Paul Eckstein som ung Hirogen
Peter Hendrixson som Klingonen

Nu är 7 och Janeway fria från sina manicker (dom som förtrycker deras riktiga personligheter och får dom att tro att dom är en del av
simuleringen) och Janeway övertalar den amerikanska befälhavaren, Chakotay, att Voyager är ett topp-hemligt laboratorie för att
framställa vapnen, och dom måste spränga en viss komponent. Denna komponent är egentligen den datorn i sickbay som styr allas
manicker och förtrycker deras riktiga personligheter. Dom lyckas spränga den och tar sen med sig striden mot Hirogen-ockupanterna till
resten av skeppet.
Hirogen bossen förklarar för Janeway att allt han vill är att använda denna holografiska teknologi för att förändra hur hans ras jagar och
existerar. Janeway erbjuder honom att ge holografiska generatorer till honom så dom själva kan sätta upp en holografisk jakt-miljö
någonannanstans än på Voyager.
Han går med på det och vill avbryta jakten, men hans undersåtar går inte med på det utan dom tror han har brunnit och tar över striden
själva. Men lite hjälp från dom pålitliga Klingonerna från en annan jaktsimulation lyckas dom tillslut ta tebax Voyager. Dom överlämnar
teknologi till dom återstående Hirogen ockupanterna för att få tillbaka Voyager.
But they'll be back!

Joe Menosky, om hur detta tema föddes:
"When I got back from Europe, I wanted to do a World War II show. You can't turn on the television at any hour in Europe and not see footage from World War II. It's pretty strange, but it's still very much alive there. I thought it would be real cool to do a World War II episode
with out characters, and have a little French town and tanks and our people in GI uniforms. That was two years ago, and I just couldn't
find a way to make it work. Once we had the Hirogen, that seemed like a good time to resurrect this World War II thing. Brannon said
'Wouldn't it be cool to have aliens in German uniforms?' Then the Hirogen came along. At this point it's very collaborative, and Ken
Biller had the good idea of putting it on a holodeck and making this big holodeck episode of the year. That was the last key to get things
rolling in terms of actually starting to write an episode. [..] So we cut right to the action, didn't deal with the takeover of our ship and
got right into this holodeck story. This felt very much in its dynamic as 'Year of Hell' did where Brannon and I, as we were writing this,
felt like we had about an episode and a quarter. We did not have a full two parts. We were just struggling. What is the image that we
need? At some point we just came up with the idea that this wasn't just playtime on the holodeck. This wasn't just bad guys mucking
around. It was a guy who may have started that way, but as a leader of this small group of Hirgoen, actually had some Trekkian notions,
things that finally would weave into more of a humanistic message about change. How cultures who may be doing certain things in a
destructive fasion have to learn to change to somehow use elements in their culture like hunting, for example, and turn them to a more
positive direction that isn't going to destroy the culture. Once we came up with that character thread, that this guy was using the
holodeck to explore ways in which he might change this destructive hunting dynamic of his people, then suddenly that gives a bad guy some depth, and it gave us more story for the second part. I think that's why that episode worked as well as it did. Plus we just got some great explosions, and that's important for the kids. It was wonderful to see. It's always great when you write this, and you see pople bring it
to life in an amazing way that's way better than you would have imagined it."

Mitch Suskin, om vad han bäst kommer ihåg från filmning:
"The only unforseen complication about that whole sequence is that, when we were shooting on the Universal bak lot in the European
village, we had one of those terrible El Niño rainstorms on the last night of shooting. Fortunately it was all being shot in sequence.
There's a rainstorm that suddenly appears at the end of the sequence. It really wasn't part of the script, but it ended up working out.
There's even one shot where Robert Picard arrives with the Klingons, and he steps out from underneath an awning, and he looks up at the
rain and wipes his brow because it's raining. I think he did that as a gag on the set, not thinking that they'd use it. But they kept it in,
because a few shots later, it was raining so hard you couldn't mask the fact that it was pooring. It's a major part of the scene, so we
put rain in the Eric Chauvin shot too. it played well in the end, but I remember as we stood under our umbrellas that night thinking 'How is
this going to work?'.

Digital Muse skapade den där öppningen mellan Voyager och holodecket i del 1, men då hade dom inte fått se manuset för del 2 där det krävdes att en karaktär skulle slängas ut ifrån en hög höjd. Detta skapade lite problem. Scenen mellan Janeway och Hirgoen filmades i vanliga Voyager miljön med en blue screen bakom Mark Deakins (Hirogen), och fylldes sen på med en matte painting (gjord av Eric Chauvin, nykomlingen för säsong fyra). När det var dags att falla gjordes det helt med CGI av Digital Muse. Det blev så bra så inte ens produktions gänget kunde tro att det var en CGI genererad person som föll. När detta dubbellavsnitt sändes i USA sändes det med båda avsnittet ihop på samma kväll, vilket var en första gång för UPN - [Braga] "It was actually [UPN's] idea. We planned it as a two part episode, and it was their idea to air it on the same night as a Voyager movie of sorts. It really worked out well. The ratings were quite good."
Så pass bra att dom gjorde det igen året efter med Dark Frontier!

"You've done a bang-up job!"
- Chakotay

Paris: "If Betty Davies came around that corner, what part would you be looking at?"
Kim: "Her legs!"

7: "Nazis?"
Paris: "Totalitariant fanatics bent on world conquest. Borg of their day. No offense.
7: "None taken."

SS Officer: "The thought of you carrying my child disgusts me."
Torres: "You're not the only one."

Neelix: "What should we do?"
Doc: "Not having a cure for a Klingon hangover, I couldn't tell you."

"I'll re-attach any severed limbs, just don't misplace them."
- Doc

"Logic is irrelevant."
- 7

Paris: "Get the lead out of your pants!"
7: "Mid 20th century slang?"
Paris: "You got a problem with that, sister?"
7: "You're enjoying this simulation? I find that preculiar given the circumstances?"
Paris: "Loosen up, baby-doll, the war is almost over."

"They are Klingons, not kittens!"
- Neelix