Star Trek: Voyager
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Star Trek : Voyager ’s Joe Menosky explain the original premiss for time of year 3 ’s " Jekyll and Hyde " episode concenter on the Doctor ( Robert Picardo ) . The Doctor was one of the most popular members ofVoyager ’s cast of characters , and during season 3,his storyline commence to get hold of new heights as the character ’s humanity emerged . The instauration of the Doctor ’s mobile emitter allowed for a greater deepness of plot line for him , and many of these episodes were focused on the physician expanding his political platform to comprehend more aspects of humanity in his quest to arrive at full sentience .
However , not all of the Doctor ’s experimentation with humanity turned out well . InVoyagerseason 3 , installment 18 , " Darkling , " the Doctor attempted to supply new stratum to his personality by incorporating the personality traits of several well - known historical figures into his program . Rather than hold the intend upshot , the additions immix to produce a colored personality that hold over the Doctor and attempted to hurt member ofVoyager ’s crowd , let in abductingKes ( Jennifer Lien)during the episode ’s climax . The Doctor ’s Jekyll - and - Hyde - like three-fold personality was sinister enough during " Darkling , " but the installment ’s plan for him was in the first place much darker .
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Joe Menosky Explained The “Perverse” Doctor In Star Trek: Voyager’s “Jekyll & Hyde” Episode
The Doctor originally had a much darker alternate personality
In an extended consultation withCinefantastiquearound the time that " Darkling " aired , Voyagerwriter Joe Menosky revealed that the creative team ’s original purpose was the make the Doctor ’s " Hyde " personality much more sadistic . Menosky posit that they had save tantrum that designate the extent of the Doctor ’s dark personality and his fixation with Kes to such a frightful extent that"Darkling " would have felt very different from a typicalStar Trekepisode , as the dealership generally like to keep the tone lighterand more optimistic . Read Menosky ’s full quote below :
" We originally made The MD contrariwise sexual and sadistic . There was a sense that his attachment to Kes was weirdly kind of psychosexual , and we took it to its limit . In the screenplay first draught that I wrote , I had a picture when Kes walks into the holodeck and sees The Doctor doing an experiment . There are Keses everywhere , and he ’s fuck off one of them on the operating tabular array , and he has some snotty-nosed railway line about , ' Just trying to get to know you best . ' It ’s very perverse . "
" Darkling " still had the semen of the Doctor that Menosky described . His clear-cut fixation with Kes and his interactions with some of the other female crew appendage , such asB’Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson)and an unnamed Ensign in the turbolift , inculpate the point of perversion that had taken over his personality . However , the episode was significantly toned down from its original premise , only hint at what the " dark " Doctor is capable of rather than showing it outright . This was apparently thanks to a specific postulation made by another fellow member ofVoyager ’s creative team before the episode went into output .
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Why Star Trek: Voyager Significantly Changed The Doctor’s Actions In “Darkling”
Another Voyager writer stopped “Darkling” from going down such an irredeemable path
consort to Menosky in the same interview withCinefantastique , Voyager ’s executive producer Michael Pillerthreatened to take his name off of " Darkling " if the script was relegate the way it was originally written . Piller felt the episode went too far in show the Doctor ’s alternative personality , and thatthe tier of depravity the episode displayed would irrevocably change the style audience saw the Doctor go ahead , making them less potential to look upon him sympathetically . Read Menosky ’s quote about Piller ’s sentiment below :
" It made us reconsider dubiety that we ’d had . Michael ’s argumentation was that you got a sensation , after the episode was done and The Doctor was back to normal , that somewhere in The Doctor was this atrocious , dirty old man who was just waiting to get his hands on Kes . There was almost no way to delete that . That ’s probably why Picardo was so discomfited when we ended up not going that route , because he really loved the ‘S and M Doctor , ' as he liked to call it . "
Although it vocalize like Robert Picardo would have been concerned in taking the Doctor ’s colored personality to its limit , it is in the end a serious thing that Piller stopped " Darkling " from give out any further than it did . Menosky and Piller are both right that the instalment would likely have changed how everyone reckon the Doctor , and even though Kes did not bond around onStar Trek : Voyager,“Darkling " would almost certainly have tinge the doc ’s interactions with other theatrical role . Despite make the episode slenderly less interesting , remove the Doctor ’s worst actions from " Darkling " was the right call .
The fifth entry in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Voyager, is a sci-fi series that sees the crew of the USS Voyager on a long journey back to their home after finding themselves stranded at the far ends of the Milky Way Galaxy. Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway, the series follows the crew as they embark through truly uncharted areas of space, with new species, friends, foes, and mysteries to solve as they wrestle with the politics of a crew in a situation they’ve never faced before.
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The fifth entry in the Star Trek franchise , Star Trek : Voyager , is a sci - fi series that sees the gang of the USS Voyager on a retentive journey back to their home after finding themselves strand at the far end of the Milky Way Galaxy . Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway , the series follows the crew as they embark through genuinely uncharted areas of distance , with Modern species , ally , foes , and mystery to work out as they wriggle with the politics of a crew in a spot they ’ve never confront before .
