Concerning Flight

This Story: Season 4 Episode 11 (production code 179)
VOY Overall: Episode 79
Trek Overall: Story 506, Episode 535
Airdate: 26 Nov 1997
Story by Jimmy Diggs & Joe Menosky
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 23 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 14 (crew of 140).
• A working title for this episode is “Da Vinci’s Day Out”.
• The second and final appearance of John Rhys Davies as Leonardo Da Vinci.  His workshop however would reappear in “The Omega Directive“.
• There is a reference to the TOS episode “Requiem for Methuselah” where Janeway mentions Kirk met DaVinci.
• Tau is played by John Vargas. Vargas also played one of the Regula I scientists under Carol Marcus in Wrath of Khan.
• Side note: A character billed as “Alien Visitor” is played by Don Pugsley.  The actor didn’t appear in any other Trek, but I wanted to point this out as I liked the alien makeup.  I can see several other races’ markings in this, and I quite like the way this one looks.
• DaVinci’s flight is called “The Great Bird” – always wondered if that was an intentional reference to Gene Roddenberry. e

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