Kate Mulgrew credited as playing...
Capt. Kathryn Janeway
- [da Vinci is baffled by the "magic" technology he has encountered]
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Let me ask you something. If you were something other than a human being, if you were a different kind of animal... If you were a small bird, a sparrow, what would your world be like?
- Leonardo da Vinci: I should make my home in a tree, in the branch of an elm. I should hunt insects for food, straw for my nest, and in springtime I should sing for a companion.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: And you would know nothing of the politics of Florence, the cutting of marble, or mathematics.
- Leonardo da Vinci: Of course not.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: But why not?
- Leonardo da Vinci: My mind would be too small.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: As a sparrow, your mind would be too small, even with the best of teachers?
- Leonardo da Vinci: If Aristotle himself were to perch on my branch and lecture till he... fell off from exhaustion... still the limits of my mind would prevent me from understanding.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: And as a man, can you accept that there may be certain realities beyond the limits of your comprehension?
- Leonardo da Vinci: If I could not accept that... then I would be a fool.
- Leonardo da Vinci: All my life I have wanted to fly. Perhaps my failure to do so has... caused my heart to remain in flight, leaping from one thing to another, never satisfied, never complete.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: And now that you've actually flown?
- Leonardo da Vinci: Now, who knows what I cannot accomplish.
- Captain Janeway: It never fails to impress me. No matter how vast the differences may be between cultures, people always have something that somebody else wants, and trade is born.
- Leonardo da Vinci: I will not leave this new world!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Your new world is a prison! You're under his control!
- [points at the unconscious Tau]
- Leonardo da Vinci: When are we not in prison? Hm? When are our lives free from the influence of those who have more power than us? Hm? If this new world is a cage, then it is a cage of gold - of marvels, of opportunities!
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Leonardo, whether you want to admit it or not, they do need you back home. In Florence, Milan, Avignon, they need your genius, they need your heart - and right now I need you, too, so come on.
- Leonardo da Vinci: I will not go... for Florence or Milan or Avignon... but for you, Caterina... for you I will go.
- Captain Janeway: I'd like to meet this patron of yours.
- Leonardo da Vinci: And so you shall this very evening, but I caution you - he is as ruthless as a Borgia.
- Leonardo da Vinci: [examining Tuvok] Curious ears.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: My traveling companion, Tuvok.
- Leonardo da Vinci: Ah, what the old philosophers say is true. Monstrous and wonderful are the peoples of undiscovered lands.
- [Janeway asks Tuvok to distract Leonardo da Vinci with small talk]
- Tuvok: Vulcans do not make small talk.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Improvise.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [about da Vinci] He was a Renaissance man, Tuvok - interpreted, reinterpreted, deconstructed, fantasized about, all through history. Vasari thought he was an angel. Freud thought he had a problem with his mother. James T. Kirk claimed he met him, although the evidence is less than conclusive.