• Production Code: STV416
• Original Air Date: Feb. 18, 1998
• Teleplay by: Brannon Braga
• Directed by: Allan Eastman
• Guest Cast:
  • Tiny Todd as Alpha-Hirogen
  • Clint Carmichael as the Hirogen Hunter

Voyager encounters a Hirogen ship, adrift, with a critically wounded Hirogen hunter on board. Janeway orders that the alien be beamed into Voyager's sickbay, despite Seven of Nine's warnings that the formidable Hirogen would regard the crew as no more than prey to be hunted and killed. Janeway disavows her concern and brings the Hirogen onboard. His presence brings even greater danger when the creature that he has been hunting across space -- species 8247, lethal even to the Borg -- boards Voyager.