The Doctor and Seven in the Holo-Workshop
in [75 Scientific Method]

Holo-Leonardo does not appear in this episode. Instead, the Doctor takes on the role of Leonardo, but as such he is merely present in the workshop with visual parameters changed so as to be dressed like a Renaissance man (not to be confused with the Season 7 episode [170 Renaissance Man]).

There follows a summary of events in the episode leading up to the complete dialogue of scenes involving the Da Vinci Holoscenario. The complete dialogue scenes are accompanied by screenshots from the Episode Guide plus additional ones.

In 2374, around star date 51244.3, various members of the U.S.S. Voyager crew suffer a range of rare medical afflictions with the source of them a mystery. For instance, Chakotay experiences rapid aging and Neelix's genes inherited from his Mylean great-grandfather become dominant making him look like a Mylean.

The Doctor and Torres work in the starship's science laboratory where they discover a mysterious microscopic genetic tag in the DNA samples of both men.

However, equally mysteriously, they find that the Doctor's program has been deleted. As Torres goes to transfer him back to Sickbay, suddenly she is incapacitated and collapses. As he bends over her unconscious body, the Doctor's program fritzes but he manages to transfer himself to the Holodeck in time.

For some reason, the alveoli in Torres' lungs suddenly stopped processing oxygen and after emergency treatment in Sickbay she remains for a time on respiratory support. While in attendance there, Seven discovers that the Doctor is contacting her by tapping into her audio implants so that only she can hear him.

Doctor: "Seven of Nine, this is the Doctor. Can you hear me? It's me, the Doctor. I've tapped into your audio implants so only you can hear me. It's imperative that you tell no one. Make any excuse you can to get out of there and report to Holodeck 2. I'm hiding in the Da Vinci simulation. I'll explain everything when you get here."

Seven and the Doctor are in the Leonardo da Vinci holoprogram. The Doctor is in Renaissance costume and playing the part of da Vinci. Doctor: "Hold your head this way, Carlotta." He moves the holofemale's head. To Seven: "I can only conclude that someone has implanted these microscopic tags in the DNA of the crew to cause genetic mutations." Seven: "For what purpose?" Doctor: "I don't know. And I get the feeling they don't want us to find out." Seven: "Explain." Doctor: "When Lieutenant Torres and I started making progress in our investigation, we were both incapacitated. Call me paranoid, but I don't think that is a coincidence." Seven: "If you're correct, perhaps our actions are being monitored." Doctor: "That's why I couldn't risk contacting anyone over the comm. system." Seven: "Our first course of action should be to collect more information." Doctor: "My thinking exactly." He goes over the the desk. She follows him.

The large painting is "The Virgin And Child With St Anne" and there is a drawing to the left of it regarding the proportions and movements of the human figure. Both are seen also in [79 Concerning Flight].

On the wall in the background part of an articulated wing.

The Dream Of Flight

The Doctor opens the desk lid. Inside the desk are the controls to the Holodeck. Doctor: "B'Elanna wanted to adjust the ship's internal sensors to a phase variance of .15. I'd like to do the same to your Borg sensory nodes." Seven: "Proceed." Doctor: "Computer, give me a type-4 micro-inducer." The bucket rattles as the item is put into it.

The Doctor takes the micro-inducer and adjusts Seven's implant.

Doctor: "Now, take a look around and tell me what you see." She does so, looking anticlockwise. But all she can see is the holosimulation - there is no one else present except for herself, the Doctor and the holocharacters. Doctor: "Do you see anything unusual? Energy signatures or perhaps something that might be transmitting a signal?"

Seven: "No." Doctor: "That's one room down, 256 to go."

Doctor: "I suggest a deck-by-deck survey. If you need to contact me, use comm. frequency epsilon-2. I've isolated it from the rest of the system." Seven: "Understood." She starts to leave.

Doctor: "And be careful. Someone out there could be watching." She acknowledges and leaves.

As Seven leaves, the large painting, part of which is seen end on and sideways, is "The Anunciation" by Leonardo. In the above screenshot, part is obscured by the Doctor's hat.

in the Messhall

in the Captain's Ready Room

Seven discovers that there are a number of aliens carrying out horrific experiments on the crew. The aliens cannot be seen by normal vision and are thus effectively invisible to the crew. When she goes to report this to Captain Janeway (and to Tuvok who is also present), Seven realises she cannot do so because there are two aliens conducting an experiment at that very moment. It is later learned that the aliens have been artificially increasing Janeway's dopamine levels to assess her command abilities in response, and the experiment was what had been giving her frequent and painful headaches. Seven makes her excuses to Janeway and leaves to return to the Doctor in the Da Vinci Holoscenario.

After Seven's departure, still unaware of the alien's experimentation upon her, the exhausted Janeway tells Tuvok: "When this mutation crisis is over, I think I'll spend a few days in Renaissance Tuscany. There's a little inn outside Siena I've been wanting to try." She is referring to the Da Vinci Holoscenario, which is set in the Renaissance.

Tuvok comes and sits next to her. "I will join you, for a glass of wine." She puts her hand on his in appreciation of his friendship and support.

The Leonardo da Vinci holoprogram. Doctor: "How many?" Seven: "I've observed 56 of the aliens. There could be more." Doctor: "Have you seen any pattern to their behaviour, any hint what they're trying to accomplish?" Seven: "They seemed to be conducting experiments on the crew and monitoring the results." The holographic town hall clock bell strikes once. Doctor: "As if Voyager were one big Petri dish." Seven: "I may be among them. In the turbolift, one of them probed me with a medical instrument." Doctor: "We cannot allow them to continue." Seven: "I've been analysing their energy signatures. I believe there is a way to make them visible to everyone." Doctor: "How?" Seven: "Using a precisely modulated phaser beam. If we expose them, the crew may be able to fight back." Doctor: "What if the aliens retaliate by inflicting lethal mutations on everyone? It's too risky." Seven: "What do you suggest?" Doctor: "The key to the aliens' control is the genetic tags. I believe a neuroelectric shock would disable them. Unfortunately, it would be rather painful." Seven: "Will the crew recover?" Doctor: "Yes, they will. The hard part will be administering the shock to everyone simultaneously." Seven: "The power relays could be reconfigured to do it." Doctor: "Good. I assume you know how to do that." Seven: "You assume correctly. But I will have to bypass several safeguards. It will take time." Doctor: "Then you'd better get started."

Seven attempts to carry out the plan but is discovered by the hostile aliens (the name of their species is Srivani, though that name is in the script and not given on the television screen). Improvising, Seven captures one of the aliens.

Seven fires the phaser at the Srivani woman. It looks to Tuvok and everyone else as if she is firing at nothing, but the phaser beam disrupts the Srivani woman's phase variance 'cloak' and brings her into standard dimensional space. Everyone in Engineering is surprised to see the alien intruder, but Tuvok now understands the reason for Seven's actions.

Seven seizes the Srivani woman she has made visible and points her phaser at the other two Srivani. Seven to her hostage. "Don't move. If your people attempt to incapacitate me, I will kill you."

The Srivani woman is called Alzen. "I believe you." Alzen: "What do you intend to do now?" Seven: "You will come with me to speak to the Captain. I am certain she will have questions for you."

Later, Janeway visits Alzen who is in the Brig's holding cell.
Janeway: "Who are you, and what the hell are you doing to my crew?"
Alzen: "My team has been observing you and conducting tests."
Janeway: "Tests? I call them mutilations."
Alzen: "I can understand why you're angry. I don't like causing people to suffer but sometimes it's a necessary part of my work."
Janeway: "What kind of work is that?"
Alzen: "Medical research. We're scientists, like you."
Janeway: "From where I stand you're a hostile invasion force. I want to know how long you've been here and exactly what you've been doing to us."
Alzen: "I can't answer those questions. It's a breach of protocol for me to be speaking to you at all."
Janeway: "How convenient. That way you never have to face your victims."

[..........part omitted.........]

Alzen: "You're a remarkably strong-willed individual. I've been very impressed by your self-control over the past several weeks. We've been increasing your dopamine levels, stimulating various aggressive impulses to test your behavioural restraints. There's been a great difference of opinion about how much more strain you can bear." Janeway's self-control snaps at this news, and she pushes Alzen against the wall. "Not much!" Janeway's self-control re-asserts itself and she lets go, annoyed that the alien has caused her to lose control for even that one instant.

They converse further, then Alzen tells her: "If you make no further attempts to interfere, I assure you that the fatality rate will be minimal, though there may be some deformities. And I would be willing to share our final data with you."
Janeway: "You can't possibly expect me to accept that."
Alzen: "If you don't, then the entire experiment and its subjects will be terminated."

The crew continue to try and find a way to get rid of the Srivani but to no avail. But when a crewwoman dies as the result of a Srivani medical experiment, Janeway snaps. She marches over to the helm. "You're relieved." She takes the place of the duty conn officer and manipulates the helm controls. Tuvok: "Captain, what are you doing?" Janeway: "I'm running a little experiment of my own. Red alert."

Janeway changes Voyager's course. They are now heading directly for binary pulsars! Unable to deter her, the Srivani evacuate. The two Srivani ships launch from off Voyager's hull. One is destroyed on take-off.

Janeway: "I can't break us free of the gravitational forces." Kim: "Then let's divert all power to the shields!" Janeway: "No. If we go in, we go in full throttle!" Kim: "Captain??" Janeway: "Assuming we survive we're going to need all the momentum we can get to reach escape velocity on the other side. Everyone, hang on!" The ship judders. "I hope you were exaggerating about those odds, Tuvok." Tuvok: "I was not." Voyager trembles violently. "Hull stress has exceeded maximum tolerance." [...........part omited.........] Voyager hurtles in toward the pulsars, but luckily the speed and momentum is enough. Thankfully, Voyager ends up in normal space.

It is not stated or shown whether, now that the "mutation crisis" is over, Janeway and Tuvok do indeed spend time in Renaissance Tuscany, but it is nice to think there is no reason to suppose that they did not. After all the stress that ship and crew have suffered at the hands of the Srivani, Janeway deserves the rest.

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