Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

The Hunted (1990)

Jeff McCarthy: Roga Danar

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• Lt. Commander Data : I believe you and I have something in common.

  Roga Danar : We do?

  Lt. Commander Data : Yes. We have both been programed.

  Roga Danar : Ah, yes. Yes, you've been talking to Counselor Troi. It is not at all the same, android.

  Lt. Commander Data : I do not mean to belittle your condition. I understand your dilemma. But... I am curious. My program can be altered. Yours cannot?

  Roga Danar : The man I was is still inside me, but this... this conditioning has been imposed - woven together with my thoughts, and my feelings, and my responses. How do you separate the program from the man?

  Lt. Commander Data : Without further analysis of your condition from Counselor Troi or Dr. Crusher, I cannot say. But I believe it is possible.

  Roga Danar : Yeah, *doctors*! The Angosian *doctors* did this to me. If it could be undone, wouldn't they undo it?

  Lt. Commander Data : I cannot answer that.

  Roga Danar : Nor can I. Yet I ask myself that question every moment of every day.

• Lieutenant Worf : You are cunning. You must have Klingon blood. But the battle is over.

  Roga Danar : My battle is never over.

• Roga Danar : My improved reflexes have allowed me to kill 84 times. And my improved memory lets me remember each of those 84 faces. Can you understand how that feels?

  Lt. Commander Data : I am incapable of any feeling.

  Roga Danar : Why, then I envy you.

• Prime Minister Nayrok : You were programed to survive. You can survive at the Lunar V settlement.

  Roga Danar : To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Roga, tell them what you want.

  Roga Danar : We want our lives back. We want to come home.

  Prime Minister Nayrok : I am not prepared to negotiate under threat, Danar. But if you will put down your weapons and return peaceably to Lunar V... I would be willing.

  Roga Danar : Mr. Prime Minister, with all due respect, you will have to force us. Or at least try.

• Roga Danar : I assume we are returning to Lunar V?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : That terrifies you.

  Roga Danar : I just killed three men to get out of there, Counselor. And I'm fully capable of killing you as well. That's a terrifying thought, isn't it? Even to me.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Do they mistreat you there?

  Roga Danar : [chuckles]  Not at all. I'm comfortable, well-fed and housed... No, no, the Angosians take good care of their prisoners. It's simply a matter of never being able to leave.

• [Deanna is talking to Danar in the holding cell] 

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I want to help, if I can.

  Roga Danar : [sarcastic]  Unlock the door.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : Perhaps when this planet becomes a member of the Federation, we'll be able...

  Roga Danar : I will not be there to see it, Counselor. Because even with this overwhelming demand to survive that they've built into my soul... I would rather die than return to Lunar V.

• Capt. Picard : Mr. Danar, I'm transferring you to Angosian Security. They're en route, they will arrive shortly. I wanted to tell you... I have no choice. The Prime Minister insisted, and we have no right to refuse.

  Roga Danar : Well, you would be foolish to consider it otherwise, Captain, for they are very correct. I am dangerous. There is no place for me in a civilized society.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I do not believe that.

  Lt. Commander Data : Nor do I.

  Capt. Picard : I respect my officers' judgments. I wish I could help further. If a way appears, I will.

  Roga Danar : I appreciate your telling me that face to face.

  Capt. Picard : I thought you deserved that much.

  Roga Danar : And you deserve to know that I must use whatever means I can to escape.

• Counselor Deanna Troi : [while talking to the imprisoned Roga Danar]  Why do you have all this anger toward me?

  Roga Danar : A girl with long dark hair broke my heart a long time ago. Out of bitterness and resentment, I turned to crime.

  [laughs it off] 

  Roga Danar : How about this one? My mother abandoned me when I was a little boy. I never got the guidance that a wild young man needed.

  Counselor Deanna Troi : Why are you doing this?

  Roga Danar : Playing games? Isn't that what you do, Counsellor? Isn't that what all of you mind control experts do?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : I am not a mind control expert. I came here because I sensed you were in pain.

  Roga Danar : And what do you sense now?

  Counselor Deanna Troi : The pain is gone.

  Roga Danar : It's interesting, isn't it?

• [Danar and his fellow soldiers storm into the government building] 

  Capt. Picard : [as Worf reaches for his phaser]  No, Worf! All of you, don't respond! Don't provoke them further! Keep those weapons down unless you wish to be killed!

  Prime Minister Nayrok : Do as he said.

  Roga Danar : No! Don't! Shoot us, destroy us. Do what you have to. But you will *not* ignore us.

  [no response] 

  Roga Danar : Go on, do it!

  [he charges his weapon and fires a blast into the wall, but the Angosians still do not raise their weapons] 

  Roga Danar : Cowards!

  Capt. Picard : Yes, and you're not programmed to murder cowards. So if they will not fight back, what will you do?

  Roga Danar : We will not go back.