In "The Hunted" the Enterprise visits a planet on a diplomatic mission to review and report on Angosha III, a potential Federation planet applying for admission. Whilst there, the government asks them to apprehend an escaped prisoner who broke out of Angosha's orbiting penitentiary. After a big ado, they're able to man the man and lock him up. They soon learn the truth of the matter: that this world has locked up its super soldiers it created to win a previous war. Now they've tossed them aside because they couldn't integrate them back into society. This perturbs the crew of the Enterprise who want to help but whose hands are tied. Can the two sides find peace?
This was pretty clearly a ln allegory on the tales of soldiers returning home and the US not properly assisting them. Many Vietnam vets now live on the streets and suffer from mental illness. The episode does a pretty good job of telling this story without spelling it out for the audience... Unfortunately it kind of holds our hand across the finish line as we get a really preachy final scene. It was doing just fine before that but then it feels it necessary to spell it all out at the end in case we missed anything.
This episode is pretty middle of the road for Season 3. We get a fun little guest appearance from James Cromwell which I'll never complain about. We get to see this super soldier beat up the entire crew of the Enterprise which is amusing. You'd think the Federation's superior technology would be able to thwart his escape plans but apparently not...
This was pretty clearly a ln allegory on the tales of soldiers returning home and the US not properly assisting them. Many Vietnam vets now live on the streets and suffer from mental illness. The episode does a pretty good job of telling this story without spelling it out for the audience... Unfortunately it kind of holds our hand across the finish line as we get a really preachy final scene. It was doing just fine before that but then it feels it necessary to spell it all out at the end in case we missed anything.
This episode is pretty middle of the road for Season 3. We get a fun little guest appearance from James Cromwell which I'll never complain about. We get to see this super soldier beat up the entire crew of the Enterprise which is amusing. You'd think the Federation's superior technology would be able to thwart his escape plans but apparently not...