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| Holo-Leonardo is seen only in Part One of this two-part episode, while the holo-workshop is seen in both Parts One and Two. The text and screenshots below are mostly from the Episode Guide.
This is a 16th century workshop, the workshop of the noted Leonardo da Vinci, set in 1502. There is a workbench on which are a various sketches, including a preliminary sketch for the Mona Lisa, models, pigment jars and half-prepared canvases. |
| But it not really 1502, nor is the location Renaissance Italy. It is USS Voyager's Holodeck, and a hologram of Leonardo da Vinci himself is working in the workshop, on a mechanical model. The model consists of an elbow joint built out of bronze and iron, the joint creaking with movement. It also has a mechanical forearm and hand. It is a complex, almost whimsical design replete with gears, pulleys, counterweights-a kind of medieval "contraption". The mechanical arm is attached to a life-sized artist's mannikin - a half-torso made of wood. The Da Vinci hologram makes an adjustment to the arm. |
The hologram is of Da Vinci when he was in his prime - a vital 50 years old, with the distinctive beard, bushy eyebrows and Renaissance artist's clothes. He speaks English with a light Italian accent.
| The Da Vinci hologram is chatting to Kathryn Janeway: "The Cardinal is a thief. I delivered two portraits of his mindless nephew more than three months ago. 'To be depicted in the heroic mode of an Hercules or an Achilles', so specified our contract. I complied, making that young fool of a nephew look far more heroic than nature ever intended - an act on my part far greater than anything accomplished by Hercules or Achilles." |
 | Da Vinci hologram: "And what have I, the 'Divine Leonardo da Vinci', received in payment?"
Janeway, smiling: "The Cardinal's eternal gratitude?" Holo-Leonardo: "Essatto! In other words, Signorina - less than nothing!" Janeway: "All the more reason why you should accept my proposal..." Holo-Leonardo: "Money is beside the point, Signorina...Catarina, is it?" |
| Janeway: "Yes. I'm only asking for a corner, one bench, a place to work on my own projects - paintings, sculptures. Just being here in your company is inspiring to me."
Holo-Leonardo: "Flattery, Catarina, is also beside the point. Besides, I prefer my solitude. Scuze." He activates the invention of his he has been working on - its mechanical arms moves up and down. "Maraviglioso." Janeway is for a moment lost in the charm of the moment. She is getting a sense of Da Vinci and how his mind worked is the main reason for her being here in the first place. Janeway: "What will you call it?" Holo-Leonardo: "The Arm of Hephaestos." Janeway: "The god of the forge." Holo-Leonardo: "Every blacksmith who has ever swung a hammer will thank me for this creation." Janeway: "Someone once said: 'All invention is but an extension of the body of man'." He cannot help but respect the quickness of her mind. Despite his prickliness, he is growing fond of her. Holo-Leonardo: "Do not think that just because I have enjoyed your visit today, that I am prepared to turn my workshop into a traveller's inn." Suddenly there is a mechanical screech as the mechanical arm stops working - one of the gears has broken. The Da Vinci hologram curses: "Che catso." He tinkers with the arm, trying to remove the broken gear. Janeway starts to help. Janeway: "Here, let me help you..." Holo-Leonardo: "You will get your hands covered in goose grease." Janeway jokes lightly: "It's good for the skin." Holo-Leonardo: "Let me see if we can find his big brother." He refers to the gear. "Hopefully he will be stronger." They move to a tabletop with a wooden box of mechanical parts and he starts sorting through the gears. Janeway notices the stand containing a number of the maestro's working drawings. Intrigued by the one at the front, she picks it out - it is a sketch of his famous flying machine. She handles the drawing almost reverently as she examines it. Janeway: "This looks like a flying machine." Holo-Leonardo: "I thought that because my imagination took flight so easily my body could do the same. I was wrong." Janeway goes to the corner of the workshop where the flying machine is hanging from the ceiling. "It's this flapping approach. You designed your machine to mimic the way a bat or a sparrow flies." Holo-Leonardo: "Yes, yes. So?" Janeway: "So what if you based it on the hawk instead?" Holo-Leonardo: "The hawk - a creature that glides through the air." Janeway smiles. "Essatto." The Da Vinci hologram is impressed. "We will design a new machine, and you, Catarina, will help me fly it." Janeway: "I'll need someplace to work." She indicates the workshop. The Da Vinci hologram jokingly quotes her: "'A corner, one workbench.'" Janeway: "That will be fine." Holo-Leonardo: "Ten scudi a week and you provide your own materials." Janeway: "Seven." She glances, most interested, at the confusion of (to her) historical mysteries and contraptions on the table. "And I might need to borrow a few things, on occasion." The Da Vinci hologram has managed to repair the mechanical arm. "Then we have an agreement." Suddenly Chakotay's voice interrupts as he contacts Janeway via comms.  comms. signal "Chakotay to Janeway."
She taps her combadge. combadge "Go ahead."
Chakotay, via comms: "Captain, we need you in Engineering. There's something here you should see." Janeway, via comms: "On my way." To the computer: "Computer, end program." The workshop, its contents and the Da Vinci hologram dematerialise to leave the basic interior of the Holodeck. Janeway heads for the door. |
| Later, the Voyager crew discover that Voyager is deep within Borg territory. The Borg Collective is losing a war against an equally matched adversary (Borg designation Species 8472), an adversary that is also set on purifying the galaxy which means destroying humankind. Trying to decide what action to take to try and extricate Voyager, Chakotay insists Janeway gets some much-needed sleep. Instead, she visits the Holodeck and the holographic simulation of Leonardo da Vinci's workshop.
Janeway: "Maestro? Leonardo?" The Da Vinci hologram is seated at a bench. He is staring fixedly at the wall. Holo-Leonardo: "Catarina. Buona sera." Her eyes attempt to follow his gaze but he appears to have been staring at the blank wall nearby. Janeway: "Am I disturbing you?" He does not answer the question but instead he indicates the wall. Holo-Leonardo: "What do you see?" Janeway: "A wall, with candlelight reflecting on it. Why? What do you see?" Holo-Leonardo: "A flock of starlings, the leaves of an oak, a horse's tail, a thief with a noose around his neck. And a wall, with the candlelight on it. There are times, Catarina, when I find myself transfixed by a shadow on the wall, or the splashing of water against a stone. I stare at it, the hours pass, the world around me drops away, replaced by worlds being created and destroyed by my imagination - a way to focus the mind. Sit and tell me why you have come." She sits. "There's a path before me, the only way home. And on either side, mortal enemies bent on destroying each other. If I attempt to pass through them. I'll be destroyed, as well. But to turn around, that would end all hope of ever getting home. No matter how much I try to focus my mind, I can't see an alternative." Holo-Leonardo: "When one's imagination fails to provide an answer, one must seek a greater imagination. There are times when even I find myself kneeling in prayer." He stands. He moves to a table and picks up a foot-tall object wrapped in muslin. Holo-Leonardo: "I must deliver a bozzetto to the Monks at Santa Croce. Come with me, Catarina, eh?" He takes her hand to encourage her. "We will wake the abbot, and visit the chapel and appeal to God." Janeway: "Somehow, I don't think that's going to work for me." She sees the light dancing against the wall but this time, his words and the shifting patterns give her an idea. "But there is an alternative I hadn't considered. What if I made an appeal to the Devil?" |
A bozzetto, Italian for "sketch", usually applied to models for sculpture, but can also be used for painted sketches, though these are more often called 'modelli'. Strictly speaking, it is a small three-dimensional sketch in wax or clay made by a sculptor in preparation for a larger and more finished work, and by extension, a rapid sketch in oil, made as a study for a larger picture.
Accordingly Janeway establishes an uneasy alliance with the Borg. Both members of the alliance distrust each other. The Borg Collective wants to assimilate Janeway and Tuvok to facilitate faster construction of super-weapons to employ against Species 8472. Janeway adamantly refuses and the Collective accepts her suggestion of a single representative - the drone with the designation Seven of Nine. Obeying the Collective and without consulting any of the Voyager crew, Seven of Nine takes Voyager into the realm of Species 8472. There, with Seven of Nine on board Voyager, the Borg-Voyager alliance deploys warheads against the enemy containing Borg nanoprobes modified by the Doctor. The nanoprobes attack the targetted members of Species 8472 on a cellular level, and Voyager manages to escape from Species 8472's fluidic space back into normal space. Upon ending the alliance, Seven of Nine tries to assimilate Voyager but is thwarted and severed from the Collective.
| In the holographic simulation of Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, Janeway is writing her log on parchment, using a quill: "Captain's Log, stardate 51003.7. Three days, and no sign of Borg or bio-ships. We appear to be out of danger, but the entire crew is on edge, and so am I. Not even the calm of Master da Vinci's workshop is enough to ease my mind."
holodeck doors
Chakotay enters to find Janeway finishing her Log, the old-fashioned way - using a quill and parchment.
Janeway: "I wanted to get as far away from bio-implants and fluidic space and this," indicating the quill and parchment, "this feels more human somehow." Chakotay hands her a PADD, a vast contrast to the parchment, and reports on ship's systems and that Seven of Nine's human cells are starting to regenerate. When they head for the exit together, Janeway picks up the parchment with her Log entry on it and takes it with her. |
In this way, Seven of Nine (later to be known simply as "Seven" although her real name is Annika Hansen) arrives on Voyager. She starts upon the path to recovering her humanity, which is a long and difficult task as she was assimilated by the Borg when she was only 6 years old. Along the way, the holoscenario of Da Vinci's workshop will figure at least twice as she reaches landmark stages along the path to humanity, at the start and end of [
74 The Raven] and at the end of [89 The Omega Directive].
