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79 Concerning Flight]Page 1 : Failed flight.
Contents:
 Page 2: The "New World" of Tau's planet. |
Page 3: Tau's territory. |
Page 4: Flight from Tau. |
Holo-Leonardo features heavily in this episode. It is the last time that Holo-Leonardo is seen in [Voyager], although the Holo-scenario will be seen again briefly in [
89 The Omega Directive].
There follows a summary of events in the episode, while scenes with Holo-Leonardo are given in full. The screenshots are from the Episode Guide with deletions, changes, additions and many are shown here larger.
On Voyager's Holodeck, in Janeway's holoscenario of Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop, she takes the role of apprentice, by name Catarina, to the holographic re-creation of the great historical figure.
 | He and she enter the workshop in Florence, both soaked. He furiously hurls to the ground the tattered remnant of a wing from his flying machine invention. |
 | They look out at the crowd gathered below. The crowd is jeering.
Holo-Leonardo shouts down at the crowd: "Animali! Stupido animali! Animali!" |
 | Townsperson, calling up from the street below: "No, Leonardo, you are the animali!"
Second townsperson, joining in the jeering: "A bird who cannot fly!" Holo-Leonardo: "Better than a man who cannot think!" The crowd taunts: "The pigeon speaks! Cuckoo, cuckoo!" Holo-Leonardo snatches up a pot he made, about to hurl it at the crowd. |
 | Janeway grabs it from him. "Maestro!" Holo-Leonardo yells down at the mocking crowd: "Stupido! Foolish Florentines!" |
 | He leaves the window. "A bird is a mechanical instrument that works according to mathematical laws, an instrument that surely I can recreate. How did it fail?" |
 | Janeway, drying her hair: "Maybe you underestimated the wingspan."
Holo-Leonardo, coming to look re-appraisingly at his schematic for his flying machine: "Had not the River Arno taken us to its arms we would both have died." |
In 1503, Leonardo advised the city government of Florence on their plans to cut off the water supply to the hostile city of Pisa by redirecting the River Arno. When the project proved unfeasible, Leonardo instead developed plans to divert the River Arno for peaceful purposes. However, his plans for using water for irrigation and to generate energy never came to fruition. He also planned to build a canal from Florence to the sea, damming Lake Chiana was intended to guarantee sufficient water for the canal even during the dry season.
 | Janeway: "Jumping off the bridge was a wise precaution." |
 | Holo-Leonardo: "Against death, yes; against humiliation, no. 'The great bird will take flight and bring glory to its nest.' So I have bragged for months. Instead, we almost drown with half of Florence watching. Bah! Finito!" Furious with himself, he rips the plan, to Janeway's horror. "No more."
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 | Holo-Leonardo: "Catarina, have you been to France?"
Janeway: "Not recently." Holo-Leonardo: "Ah. The King of France is a great admirer of mine. 'The Divine Leonardo' is all I hear when I walk through his streets. And what music do I find in the streets of Florence, eh? The cooing of pigeons and the babbling of fools. Catarina, we are leaving!"
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The King of France at this time was Louis XII, who employed Leonardo for much of the period 1506-12.
 | Janeway, rather sternly: "You're giving up."
Holo-Leonardo: "Hmm?" |
 | Janeway: "Again. Your beautiful painting of the Adoration, the great bronze horse in Milan, the Battle of Anghiari - unfinished, all of them. You were going to publish your notebooks. You never did. You have given up, abandoned your most important works. Why?"
Holo-Leonardo feels uncomfortable. He tries to change the subject. "There is er a tavern just outside Paris, Catarina, a charming bistro where the wine is-" |
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 | Suddenly USS Voyager trembles violently. "Terra moto!" (The ground is moving!)
Janeway taps her combadge. Via comms: "Janeway to the Bridge." Chakotay, via comms: "We're under attack, Captain." Janeway, via comms: "I'm on my way." She hurries out. Holo-Leonardo, aloud to himself: "Earthquakes and idiots. Florence be damned." He turns to leave. |
The attack turns out to be by an alien named Tau and his soldiers. They use a translocation device to beam valuable items off Voyager. Stolen items include the primary surgical bio-bed, emergency food rations, engineering parts, and, the worst losses - the main computer processor and the Doctor's holo-emitter. Voyager is damaged in the attack and it takes 10 days for ship and crew to track the stolen goods to Tau's planet. Two away teams set off to search, with Janeway and Tuvok comprising the away team to search the northern continent in the hope of retrieving the main computer processor.
 | The main city on the northern continent. |
 | Janeway and Tuvok enter the city's market place. Seeing the trading going on, Janeway comments: "It never fails to impress me. No matter how vast the differences may be between cultures, people always have something that somebody else wants, and trade is born."
Tuvok: "Or more to the point, theft."
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 | Janeway: "What have you got?"
Tuvok, reporting the read-out on his tricorder: "The materials in the construction of this city, and the technology in use appear to have originated from numerous sources." Janeway: "No doubt stolen." Tuvok: "The myriad signatures have resulted in high interference levels. I am unable to- A moment. I am picking up a Starfleet signature." |
Janeway: "The computer processor?"
Tuvok: "I don't believe so. The signal magnitude is too low. The signature is approaching."
 | It is the Da Vinci hologram! He sees Janeway. "Catarina! Che meraviglia!" He pushes his way past several merchants. "Out of my way, out of my way! Scusi, scusi." |
 | Holo-Leonardo greets Janeway most warmly, delighted to see her. "Catarina, Catarina! Welcome! Welcome to America!"
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 | Janeway sees that he is wearing the Doctor's mobile emitter! |
The earliest known European explorer to reach the Americas was the Viking named Leif Ericson who reached North America in the 11th century, and there were possibly earlier discoverers from Europe as well. Christopher Columbus (whose name in Italian is Cristoforo Colombo and in Spanish is Cristóbal Colón), lived c. 1451-1506, was a Genoese navigator and admiral whose four transatlantic voyages in the service of Spain in 1492–1493, 1493–1496, 1498–1500, and 1502–1504 opened the Americas to European exploration and colonisation. History places great significance on his re-discovery of America for the Europeans in 1492, although he did not actually reach the mainland until his third voyage in 1498. In 1508, the German geographer Martin Waltseemuller called the New World "America" for the first name, after the sailor Amerigo Vespucci. The period before 1492 is called by some historians as Pre-Columbian. Columbus Day is nowadays celebrated annually in the USA to mark the re-discovery.