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Turanj is initially the secondary antagonist and ultimately the main antagonist of the two-part Star Trek: Voyager story "The Killing Game".
He was portrayed by Mark Deakins, who also voiced Moloch in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Biography[]
Turanj was the Beta of a party of Hirogen who managed to attack Voyager, overwhelms its defences and subdue the crew. He was confused when his Alpha, Karr, refused to allow them to kill the crew, instead implanting most of them with neural devices that caused them to believe they were characters in a holo-fiction and hunting them through various holo-simulations on the holodecks. The Hirogen were under strict orders to avoid head injuries so injured "prey" could be treated by their own medics and Voyager's Doctor.
Karr initiated a programme set in France during World War Two, with himself as the commandant of a German occupation force and Turanj as one of his officers, and Voyager crew taking on the identities of the French Resistance or American soldiers attempting to liberate the town. Turanj took delight in bullying Neelix when he came across him in the street, before later snapping and gunning down Neelix and Seven, then ordering them taken to the sickbay for treatment.
Karr explained his reason for doing this to Turanj: He felt their culture was dying as a result of their people being scattered across the quadrant hunting prey. He felt they needed to come together but was aware of the strength of their hunting instinct, so planned to create holo-simulators where they could carry out the hunt without needing to travel elsewhere. Although not fully embracing Karr's vision, Turanj agreed to support him.
After an explosion breached the holodeck and allowed characters from the programmes to escape into Voyager's corridor, Turanj led both the Hirogen hunters and their holographic Nazi allies in hunting them. He managed to corner several of Voyager's crewmembers in the holographic bar and capture them. On learning they had regained their real personalities, he was willing to kill them but Karr ordered him to keep them prisoner. He then learned Karr had negotiated a ceasefire with Captain Janeway.
Initially willing to obey Karr's orders, Turanj was won over by the holographic SS Kapitan's argument that they should wipe out inferior races instead of negotiating with them and ordered the attack to resume. He then confronted Karr and killed him, before telling Janeway she was now his prey and ordering her to run. Janeway tricked him into entering an area where the holographic projectors were malfunctioning, causing his holographic rifle to start appearing and disappearing. She then struck him with a metal bar and disarmed him. The tables were turned as the unarmed Turanj found himself being pursued by Janeway. Finding him at a point where the wall into the holodeck had been breached, he witnessed his allies being overcome by the intervention of Neelix and a group of holographic Klingons. Janeway caught up with him and tried to get him to order his hunters to stand down. Turanj lunged at her and Janeway shot him in the chest, with him plummeting dozens of decks downwards through the breach, dead from either the shot or the fall.
