Darkling

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"The Darkling"
Lord Byron, Gandhi, and Neelix
Episode no.	60
Prod. code	161
Airdate	February 19, 1997
Writer(s)	Brannon Braga Joe Menosky
Director	Alexander Singer
Guest star(s)	David Lee Smith as Zahir Stephen Davies as Nakahn Noel de Souza as Gandhi Christopher Clarke as Lord Byron
Year	2373
Stardate	50693.2
Episode chronology
Previous	"Unity"
Next	"Rise"

Darkling is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the eighteenth episode of the third season.

[edit] Plot

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The Doctor attempts to improve his program by including elements of the personalities of various famous peoplie that he admires, taken from holocharacters of them. However, the darker, less well-known sides of these people's personalities form a separate, evil, second personality (similar to Mr. Hyde) which attempts to murder an alien from the planet, being visited by Voyager by pushing him off a cliff, temporarily paralyzes Lt. Torres when she discovers him, and later jumps off a cliff with Kes, but is beamed back to Voyager while falling. At the end of the episode, the Doctor's program is restored to normal. While the episode concludes, the Doctor is heard citing part of the Hippocratic Oath.