Star Trek: Voyager — 4x11 — Concerning Flight

Aired 1997-11-26

SpaceOpera.com rating:3

Average reader rating:4.78

Synopsis

Janeway gets help from Leonardo da Vinci.

Remarkable scenes

Da Vinci in "America."
Tuvok: "Vulcans do not make small talk."
Da Vinci: "This fascinating conversation has left me as dry as Vulcan." Tuvok: "Vulcan?" Da Vinci: "An island off Sicili, have you been there?" Tuvok: "No."
Tuvok objecting to leaving the Da Vinci program running on the mobile emitter.
The doctor forcing Seven of Nine to recount the argument she had with Torres in the mess hall.
Da Vinci: "These fortresses, I've been to half a dozen of them. All are similar but each is different."
The glider flight and the beam up.

Review

This episode was ill constructed. The idea to set Da Vinci loose in the "real world" for some comedy was a good idea and the idea to have Voyager pirated by an alien race was also a good idea, but the two good ideas are a mismatch in this episode. That said, there are some entertaining moments. I especially enjoyed getting technical specs regarding Voyager's computer processor. Other than that a big miss.

2 reader comments

I'd count addressing Leonoardo as Mr. Da Vinci as a problem: da Vinci was a desriptor, not the man's name.
by Ed Flinn | 04/19/2009 at 12:44 am

a fun enough romp for being such a messy episode. the big problem i see is setting this precedent of all hologram characters being potentially fully- or mostly-sentient--if this is the case, you would think this would cause the crew consternation and potentially make every reset of a holodeck scenario or deletion of characters a murder/genocide. there's obviously ways around this, but it would've been nice to explore some of that--the differing levels of consciousness that a hologram could experience. i believe tuvok referred to this when he said da vinci was 'limited', but in all behavior and action his only real limitation is his understanding of place/context; in all other ways he seems to be an autonomous being. just food for thought.
by parkbench | 09/04/2015 at 8:34 pm