Star Trek: Voyager’s “Jekyll & Hyde” Doctor Episode Was Originally Much More “Perverse”, Says Writer

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Star Trek: Voyager’s “Jekyll & Hyde” Doctor Episode Was Originally Much More “Perverse”, Says Writer
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Collage of the Doctor (Robert Picardo) from Star Trek: Voyager with an image of his dark alter-ego from the episode "Darkling"

SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Star Trek: Voyager's Joe Menosky explained the original premise for season 3's "Jekyll and Hyde" episode focusing on the Doctor . The Doctor was one of the most popular members of Voyager's cast of characters, and during season 3, his storyline began to reach new heights as the character's humanity emerged.

Related Every Upcoming Star Trek Movie & TV Show Star Trek is ending series like Discovery and Lower Decks but renewed Strange New Worlds while setting up new streaming and theatrical movies. "We originally made The Doctor perversely sexual and sadistic.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 draft that I wrote, I had a scene when Kes walks into the holodeck and sees The Doctor doing an experiment. There are Keses everywhere, and he's got one of them on the operating table, and he has some flip line about, 'Just trying to get to know you better.' It's very perverse.

Why Star Trek: Voyager Significantly Changed The Doctor’s Actions In “Darkling” Another Voyager writer stopped "Darkling" from going down such an irredeemable path Close According to Menosky in the same interview with Cinefantastique, Voyager's executive producer Michael Piller threatened to take his name off of "Darkling" if the script was submitted the way it was originally written.

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