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Their skills in the area of observation, and their culture promoting patience as one of their highest virtues would mean they would be incredible diplomats... if not for the fact that their first thought when meeting any head of state is "I wonder how that head would look above the hearth."

According to the novels, The Hirogen got as far as the Gamma Quadrant as the Dominion is familiar with them

I was always fascinated by the Hirogen

In other words, they dont have the copyright so they made their own Predators

So they're a species of explorers who have developed their technology and society to the point where they can comfortably devote their live to cultural and leisure activities including the aforementioned exploring to make contact with new civilisations and boldly go where no Hirogen has gone before. How very Federation like of them.

Really felt this was a species Star Trek under utilized all around.

I loved the Hirogens simply because of Tony Todd's performance, everything badass about them after that were cherries on top

I want these guys and the Klingons to meet. Each would consider the other worthy prey/opponents and would love every minute of killing eachother, with the survivors having song and story to tell of their glory.

I always got the impression that the Hirogen were an ancient race and that they actually built the relay stations.

So in essence, Star Trek's version of the Predator. Question: Do the Hirogen hunt the borg?

I like the Hirogen, but I never could stop viewing them as a poor man's Yautja.

The Hirogen have my favorite outfits in Star Trek

The Hirogen ships remind me of the airbrushed art of the 70s in those coffee table books by Chris Foss. The Hirogen make damn good long range ships, they are _very low maintenance_ and rugged. If you could get away with it, stealing one would be a good idea, as long as you're leaving the area permanently, and even then it might be an idea to modify it and change it's appearance afterwards in case any other Hirogen (or those pissed off at the Hirogen) cross your path. Hell if the Equinox crew had been hunted and managed to defeat some Hirogen, hijacking their ship and transferring over whatever bits of the Equinox were more advanced would have been a good option. Make a hybrid of both ships, imagine a Hirogen vessel fitted with Starfleet shields and their more versatile subsystems. And hull plating and a few bits and pieces stuck on the outside to hide it's true origins. And did Voyager get detailed specs on them? They had access to a few unguarded ships and the help of a Hirogen technician, the design philosophy and technology of the systems could revolutionize Starfleet ship design when they get back to the Federation. A Federation ship that can go for decades without any servicing and is a tough block of armour. I'm sure the Defiants designers would be very interested in everything about the small hunting ships. As for the Hirogen themselves, how would they fair against a organised war against them? They hunt too many of a particular species or group (or just a few of a paranoid species) and are declared enemies. They are used to hunting prey, but not being the target of a military campaign. And they may well learn that war is the *sport of Empires.*

I imagine the hirogen operate in a clan based society, where clans run space station. At these station clan members can gather to "mate" and to show off their trophies. I mean the whole point of gathering trophies, is to eventually show them off to others.

It would have been cool to see Voyager with Hirogen upgrades like armor and scanner tech.

I always thought that it was contact with the Borg that caused them to become hyper predators and their civilization to atrophy

I love how when Voyager scanned their ships for weakness and it came back with none :P

Awesome video!! I use to call the Hirogens the wolves of the Delta Quadrant lol

"Never let your prey suffer!"

I always thought they were an offshoot, like there is a home planet and empire, these guys are just like the amish of their culture

I always wondered if they were the preditory off shoots of the hadrosaur beings from earth.

8:00 we saw some fairly enormous Hirogen ships in at least one episode. One ship dwarfed Voyager. Voyager hid in its wake.

I remember in the Voyager episode 'The Prey' where 2 Hirogens were hunting Species 8472 Chakotay took an away team to the Hirogen ship and they were able to download the ships computer database to learn about them and it was mentioned there was no homeworld and that they're entire culture was based on the hunt it was much like the Yujatja.

I liked the Hirogen, i wish there was more episodes with them in it.

YES! The Hirogen are one of my fave Trek species as well! Thanks!!!! I've been eagerly awaiting this cultural index episode!

I'd love to see how the Hirogen and Klingons would interact. Best of friends in the long run or amazing rivals? This of course assumes the Klingons don't go all invasion happy. I'm more interested in a first encounter scenario.

My first exposure to the Hirogen was Elite Force, so fighting the Alpha and getting his GLORIOUS Tetryon Pulse Disruptor is always a fond memory.

Cool, 4 episodes with them to see. thx, as usual,very nice video !

The Hirogen have the culture and the technology of the Predators, while the Nausicaans have the (approximate) appearance. That's even more obvious in STO, I'd say.

The only thing that bothered me about the Hirogen was the change to their height. They were huge in earlier episodes and then became average height in later epoisodes. Either they could not find enough tall actors or did not want to use effects to make them look taller.

What a cool channel I stumbled on! Nice work. Def worth the sub.

It became a joke in the episode ''Tsunkatse'' when the Hirogen suddenly got portrayed as small compared to The Rock who is 6'5''. Before that I thought Hirogen are about 6'5'' at least ... The smallest were the Hirogen in the episode ''Killing Game'' (all over 6'3'').

I like what I see, more of this insightful and entertaining content is much appreciated

You just keep the trek coming. Sub for you. 😁

Didn't we see this in DS9? Hey Hirogen... Wanna buy a Tosk

Can you imagine a half hirogen/Klingon! That would be epic

The Hirogen were interesting introduction by the Voyager writer's but never fully developed any further then couple of episode's

The Hirogens are like the Delta Quadrant version of the Gorn as a Predatory species who had a bad first contact with the Federation like with the Gorn it was the Cestus 3 incident and with the Hirogens it was when Voyager was using they're technology like what happened in the episode 'Message in a Bottle'.

The dwarf star boast simply has to be that. The surface gravity on one of those things alone would turn even a starship into jelly so the thought that a single individual could not only walk there but also survive within the bloody mantle would be like saying you could walk on antimatter

Voting for Firefly because atm youtube is full of videos about Thanos and everything related to him.

...and get schooled by 7 of 9 via feedback when they smartmouth over the comm. They may not have been amused, but B'Elanna was.

I have been hunting for a video like this for a very long time :D

Great video!

The Hirogen are the Star Trek version of The Predator Be kind of interesting to see The Predator and the Hirogen go head to head

Good evening Ric, I do like them as a species and I like their look. It is nice to see you doing an Cultural Index , its been awhile. I would like to see them in Picard or Discovery, NOT SURE HOW THAT WOULD WORK THOW.

Nothing in the verse can stand against two hands of blue ... Firefly or bust.

Next to the Klingons, I find the Hirogen quite appealing. Their motives and tactics are pure and disciplined!

“Star Trek’s answer to the Predator” - Love it 😁

Excellent

These guys had really cool episodes

Great video was very interesting to hear about all the hirogens. They really are a copy of predator in my opinion also.

Very cool. I know it's never seen on Voyager but I doubt the entire species is so obsessed with nomadic hunting. I would liked to have seen Hirogen colonies or even mention of more habitats. I think these might just be the more nomadic Hirogen that hunt across the galaxy.

good video

Bit late to reply but id love to see a predator meets hirogen scenario

The Hirogen are one of my favorite species too.

Good job 💫

They look close enough to the Voth that I wouldn't be surprised if they were a splinter species. Perhaps they are a warrior caste of the Voth that left (likely millions of years ago) to do their own thing without interference from the Voth government. However, there were enough wounded Hirogen on Voyager that the Doctor probably would have made the connection to Earth as he did with the Voth. I can't recall if the Doctor ever examined the Hirogen genome at length on the show.

Here's a question who would win between an Hirogen and a Predator?

Bossk would love these guys

All I knew about them before this video is that I used them with the Kazon in the Star Trek card game.

Pretty slim pickings for this week poll I guess I have to go with the independent systems from Firefly

I’d be interested in a video that follows up on the revelations from Prodigy, which found a habitable planet covered by a predator plant form in the Hirogen system. Perhaps the Hirogen were driven from their homeworld and became hunters, or the plant form derived from a trophy brought back by a careless hunter.

Might I request that you take under consideration a Culture Index of Holograms : Ha'Dara Sect. From the Flesh and Blood episodes. Maybe even throw in a what if scenario discussing their future.

Awsome

6:40 - Just to point it out, theres a spelling error in the "Artefact of the Hunt" section. Otherwise, great informative content as always

I liked the Hirogen as well.

What surprise me that other civilization have not reacted to the Horgen's presense by forming fleets dedicated hunting down the Hirogens threat.

Finally, you covered the -Yautja- -Tosk- -Kazon- Hirogen.

HIrogen are one of my favourite. Especially when they are actually observing the prey, giving praise when due. I think they could have been expanded even further, but alas that didn't happen. :-(

I look at the Hirogen in the video's thumbnail, and all I just want to say is "FLAWLESS VICTORY...... FATALITY........ MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT!"

I love the Startrek Predators!

I won't mind seeing what if video of the predator Vs hiregon

Would be a big plus to see them encounter the Predators.

And boy are they a PitA in STO. I do miss the one ground mission where you have to go through like 4 or 5 waves of them in short order before dealing with that pack's Alpha. It was a decent story, as far as early STO missions go.

Strange, I seem to remember reading in one of the Voyager books that the Hirogen bio-engineered themselves in response to having encountered the Borg. The planetless society was also formed for this same reason.

I quite like the Hirogen - and also the final resolution to their cultural choice... finally a decent excuse for the holo... and a good rationale for why they have not become a more dominant species...

The subtitles said "trill seeking." I'm not sure how Dax feels about this...

My favorite race !

Their ships armour is amazing.

I remember in star trek elite force when you defeat the hirogen and he gives you his badass minigun for defeating him.

Please consider an episode of the Predators vs the Hirogens.

Yautja vs Hirogen would be interesting.

The armor reminds me of Riddick’s necromongers

The Hirogen kick ass! The "uncivilized enemy" species in Star Trek are usually cooler and more interesting than the friendly species.

I just realized their facial structure is supposed to resemble a Tyrannosaurus or Velociraptor...

I always saw them as treks view of the predators (Yautja) but less advanced like they took the hunt over technological advance

The Hirogen to me seemed like a weird mish mash of KLingon, Jem'Hadar, and possibly the Predator (from the Predator movie series)

"You would hunt down a simple beast even in the midst of our enemies?"

Get me one of those armor sets!

8:17 Took a moment to realize that "torch" on that diagram was a light and not some sort of flamethrower. I'm aware of the British term for what one might call a flashlight, but I don't often see it used in diagrams. lol.

On Sto, they should have set them after the Iconians. You know they would have definitely went for it.

How would they do against Tosk though?

God, I just wanna see all “warrior” or just very violent species converge in the Sagittarius A system and have an all out duel

Basically the Star Trek universe's very own version of Yautja...

Well, you've got to admit; hanging preserved prey intestines is very artistic. Some cat DNA; play with live prey.

How about a vid about the Shi'ar since they cant get any love in marvel movies?

Would love to see them fight the Borg..

Hirogen vs Predators, GO!

It would be cool to see them fight the jem'hadar