Warning: Contains spoilers for Star Trek: Defiant #18!
Whether they realize it or not, an underrated Star Trek: Voyager Species may have just saved the galaxy. While traveling the treacherous Delta Quadrant, Voyager Encounter a number of new species, both friendly and hostile – most falling into the latter category. The Hirogen were one such race, menacing Voyager Several times during their journey. Now, in Star Trek: Defiant #18, The Hirogen may have inadvertently saved the galaxy.
Star Trek: Defiant #18 is written by Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Angel Unzueta. Worf, Ro Laren and B’Elanna Torres are on the Antaran homeworld, on the edge of the Delta Quadrant. The Romulans come to Antara to strip the planet of its remaining technology, and Worf must organize the Agrarian inhabitants to fight back. Not optimistic about their prospects, Warf still presses forward. One of the Antarans takes a toss to a clearing, where two Hirogen Raiders are being held.
The ships are over a hundred years old, but are still in working condition.
The Hirogen Star Trek: Voyager connection, explained
The Hirogen live for the hunt, making them unlike any other Star Trek Aliens
when Voyager Thrown 75,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant, they were in completely unknown territory. Voyager Set a course for home, and right in the crosshairs of every hostile race in the Delta Quadrant. The Kazon, the Borg, the Kremin and the Hirogen all squared off Voyager At one point or another. The Hirogen are especially scary. They are warp-capable, but nomadic, traveling through the galaxy hunting for pure sport. The Hirogen met Janeway and her crew often, and took them down to the wire.
one of Voyager’s Better developed races, the Hirogen’s single-minded pursuit of the hunt led to fascinating social mores and customs.
The glimpses of Hirogen culture and society glimpsed in Star Trek: Voyager Paint a fascinating picture. one of Voyager S Better developed races, the Hirogen’s single-minded pursuit of the hunt led to fascinating social mores and customs. Voyager Attempts were made to make breakthroughs with the Hirogen, but it would be until the ship returned home that the Federation attempted formal diplomatic relations. As shown in Star Trek: PicardThe two powers came together, but only after some initial misunderstandings. Although it is unlikely that the Hirogen will join the Federation, it is one less enemy they will have to deal with.
The Hirogen just might have saved everyone
Star Trek is showing the true potential of the Hirogen
Just as the Hirogen culture produced unique customs, it gave birth to some fantastic technology as well, tech that just might have saved the galaxy. A Romulan invasion fleet is headed for Antara, which under normal circumstances would have spelled doom for the planet. But the presence of the Hirogen Raiders gives Warf and the Antarans an advantage they didn’t have before. Star Trek: Voyager Touched on the awesome potential of Hirogen technology, and now it will be instrumental in saving an important planet, and thus the galaxy.
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