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60 Darkling]
Holo-Leonardo is not seen in this episode. It is in this episode that we surmise that the character of Leonardo da Vinci is re-created.
In 2373, the Doctor incorporates segments of Leonardo da Vinci's personality into his Emergency Medical holographic program as part of a personality improvement project. Hologram Leonardo da Vinci is one of the characters that the Doctor interviews as part of that personality improvement program. He explains to Kes: "I've been interviewing the historical personality programs in our database - Socrates, da Vinci, Lord Byron, T'pau a Vulcan, Madam Curie, dozens of then greats, then I select the character traits I find most admirable and merge them into my own program."
 the Doctor explains to Kes, showing her holographic characters Socrates and T'Pau |
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| holographic characters Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Byron, and Socrates and T'Pau | |
Unfortunately, the Doctor does not realise that by concentrating the great traits of historical figures he is also downloading into his program the "dark" side of their characters, the aspects that helped lend greatness. A new personality is born from the merged subroutines - a Darkling Doctor, who is evil, driven and paranoid.
Kes meets the Darkling Doctor who explains that he is:"A little bit of this, a little bit of that. .... The new master of the Emergency Medical Holographic program. [The Doctor is] Inside, unconscious and unaware I am beyond considerations of wrong and right, behavioural categories are for the weak, for those of you without the will to define your existence, to do what they must, no matter who might get harmed along the way. But he [the Doctor] repulses me, because he's as weak as the rest of you. He fails to understand the power of his own holographic nature. He is detestable. ...... I was born of the hidden, the suppressed. I am the dark threads from many personalities. [The historical characters] None of whom could face the darkness inside, so they denied me, suppressed me, frightened of the truth, that darkness is more fundamental than light. Cruelty before kindness, evil more primary than good, more deserving of existence."
When the subroutines start to degrade the Darkling Doctor detains and tries to force Torres to adjust his program but he refuses. Believing his "progenitors" would know how to help him, the Darkling Doctor goes to the holodeck but they cannot or will not and he ends up damaging them. Seizing Kes as a hostage, he flees to the planet surface after setting up a scattering beam in an attempt to evade capture.
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| Damaged holo-Socrates (left) and the Darkling Doctor (right). If holo-Leonardo were present no doubt he too would have been damaged. | |
Kes tells the Darkling Doctor: "When I walked in on you in the Holodeck you could've killed me, knocked me unconscious. You said you were taking me for my own good, to prevent me making the wrong decisions. You said I was naive and needed your help. That's not what you say to a hostage. In your own way you've been trying to protect me. You've twisted and suppressed all that's good inside you but it's still there."
However, the Voyager crew manage to disable the scattering beam and transport Kes and the Doctor/Darkling Doctor back on board where the Darkling Doctor is found to have been destroyed leaving the Doctor his normal self.
It is logical to assume that the holographic character of Leonardo da Vinci is retained in the ship's computer and employed (several episodes later) in Janeway's holodeck scenario of the Maestro's Workshop.
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