A Hirogen hunter aboard the occupied Voyager who scorns his commander's plan to use holodecks to preserve their people and finally kills him.
Turanj is second to Karr, the Hirogen leader who seizes Voyager and forces its crew to play out simulated battles. He appears in the fourth-season two-part story The Killing Game.
Karr believes that the Hirogen are scattering themselves into extinction and that holographic prey could let them rebuild a civilisation. Turanj sees only weakness in this. He relishes the Second World War programme, in which he takes the role of a ruthless young German officer, and wants the crew killed outright.
As the simulations break down and spill through the ship, Karr negotiates a truce with Janeway. Turanj shoots him rather than accept it and goes after Janeway himself, but she gets the better of him.