The U.S.S. Voyager answers a distress call from a Hirogen training facility, only to find a holographic environment littered with Hirogen corpses. The holographic technology given to the Hirogen by Captain Janeway for hunting training in the end of the fourth season two-parter Killing Game has been modified to the point where the prey have become the hunters. The holograms have not only become self-aware, but are essentially a new race, seeking refuge from 'organic' slavery and brutality. Seeking to liberate one of 'their own', the holograms kidnap the Doctor, who soon finds himself torn between his loyalties to Voyager and his holographic brethren.
