Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Scorpion (1997)

John Rhys-Davies: Leonardo da Vinci

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• Leonardo da Vinci : What do you see?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : A wall... with candlelight reflecting on it. Why? What do you see?

  Leonardo da Vinci : A flock of starlings, the leaves of an oak, a horse's tail, a thief... with a noose around his neck. Eh... and a wall, with the candlelight reflecting on it.

• Leonardo da Vinci : When one's imagination can't provide an answer, one must seek out a greater imagination. There are times when even I find myself kneeling in prayer.

• Leonardo da Vinci : There are times, Katarina, 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.

• Captain Kathryn Janeway : This looks like a flying machine.

  Leonardo da Vinci : I thought that because my imagination took flight so easily, my body could do the same. I was wrong.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : It's this flapping approach. You've designed your machine to mimic the way a bat or a sparrow flies.

  Leonardo da Vinci : Yes, yes. So?

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : So what if you based it on the hawk instead?

  Leonardo da Vinci : The hawk, a creature that glides through the air.

  Captain Kathryn Janeway : Esatto.