Renaissance Man
- Episode aired May 16, 2001
- TV-PG
- 43m
The Doctor abducts and impersonates various members of the crew when the Captain is kidnapped.The Doctor abducts and impersonates various members of the crew when the Captain is kidnapped.The Doctor abducts and impersonates various members of the crew when the Captain is kidnapped.
- Neelix
- (credit only)
- Voyager Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
- Engineer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMention of the Beta Quadrant in this episode has led some fans to speculate that Voyager was approaching the edge of the Delta Quadrant by this stage in its journey. Voyager had traveled over 40,000 light years from its starting position (the edge of the Delta Quadrant and the known galaxy) in seven years. It is possible Voyager was nearing the center of the galaxy (where all four quadrants converge).
- GoofsAll entries contain spoilers
- Quotes
[the Doctor thinks his program is about to break down]
The Doctor: [to Janeway] I've had something on my conscience for a long time. After I was first activated, I kept a record of what I considered to be your most... questionable command decisions. It's in my personal database. I hope you'll delete the file without reading it.
The Doctor: [to Tuvok] Mr. Tuvok. I violated the most sacred trust between a physician and his patient. I told Mr. Neelix about the cutaneous eruption you developed on your...
[looks furtively around, realizing everyone else is listening]
The Doctor: That was indiscreet. I hope you can forgive me.
The Doctor: [to Kim] Ensign. At your recital last month, I told Lieutenant Torres that your saxophone playing reminded me of a wounded targ. I should have put it more delicately! I'm sorry!
The Doctor: [pushing Kim aside] Seven.
Seven of Nine: You should remain still.
The Doctor: You have no idea how difficult it's been, hiding my true feelings all these years, averting my eyes during your regular maintenance exams.
[the Doctor's holomatrix starts to glitch]
The Doctor: [falling on his knees] I know you could never have the same feelings for me, but I want you to know the truth. I love you, Seven.
[his program glitches again]
Seven of Nine: Your cognitive algorithms are malfunctioning.
The Doctor: [stands up and waves the others goodbye] Goodbye, my friends! Speak well of me!
[the Doctor disappears]
Captain Kathryn Janeway: Is he...?
B'Elanna Torres: No, I've got him.
[the Doctor reappears, with his hand still held up]
The Doctor: What happened?
B'Elanna Torres: I deleted the extraneous subroutines.
The Doctor: I'm not going to decompile?
Captain Kathryn Janeway: [dourly] You'll probably outlive us all.
[hands him back his mobile emitter]
Tom Paris: Doc... anything... else you'd like to confess?
- ConnectionsReferenced in After Trek: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (2017)
Unfortunately the doctor is being manipulated. He is being manipulated by that one race that understands him more than he understands himself. I did not really want to reveal who that was in my review but I have to: he is being manipulated by the race that I have named "the Googys" (after the original actor who played one of them, and whose features adorn their makeup: Google Gress).
The difficulty here is that these two former members of "the Heirarchy" had opportunity to study the doctor in great detail after their first encounter with him, and in fact this caper had been in planning for a long time. They know how to dig the knife into the doctors photonic back and twist, and as this episode goes on we can see that it is really getting to the doctor.
But it just shows how ingenious and creative the doctor can be, and he eventually discovers a way of extricating himself from this conundrum, which he does with some finesse and a level of subtlety.
We've seen the doctor in previous episodes do everything that he has done in this episode. It's just that here, we see him doing all of it all at once! He is a doctor, he is an Opera singer as well as a jazz piano player, he is an emergency command hologram, he is a secret agent! He is a... photonic!
And it has taken him seven years to at last, become comfortable with what he is and finally to have pride. Which is another one of his problems because he overdoes it.
The Googys know how to use all of this against him to make him do what they want.
So generally the whole episode is waiting for the doctor to have that one opportunity to bust out of his expected modes of behavior.
I don't consider this episode substandard in the least, and it was the perfect lead-in to "Endgame".
Also there are some ingenious technical gags, and those just make it all the more worthwhile. You just have to ask "how did they do that"?
As this episode moves from the teaser into the episode, you know that something is wrong but you just can't put your finger on it, and then suddenly, when you least expect it...
- XweAponX
- May 27, 2020
Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3