Star Trek/Q/Which real historical figures have been recreated on the Holodeck

• Which real historical figures have been recreated on the Holodeck? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange (172569)

  • #Original Poster

    • StackExchange/User/Kevin Flynn
      • While watching VOY: Scorpion, Captain Janeway spends time on the Holodeck conversing with Leonardo da Vinci about his inventions.

      • Who are the actual Earth history figures that have been recreated on the Holodeck in any of the Star Trek series?
        

      • Scope: from real Earth history (not in-universe fiction), and verified as having existed.

  • #Response

    • StackExchange/User/Valorum — accepted, score 18
      • Historical figures actually seen on screen:
        • Person/Albert Einstein, Person/Isaac Newton, Person/Stephen Hawking — TNG: Descent
        • Sigmund Freud — TNG: Phantasms
        • Leonardo da Vinci — VOY: Scorpion, VOY: Concerning Flight, etc.
        • Mahatma Gandhi, Lord Byron, Socrates — VOY: Darkling
    • StackExchange/User/Sekhemty — score 8
      • Seen on screen:
        • Person/Albert Einstein — besides Descent, also recreated by Reginald Barclay in TNG: The Nth Degree
      • Only referenced in dialogue or otherwise implied to exist:
        • Tris Speaker and Ted Williams — 20th-century baseball players in a holosuite program run by Benjamin and Jake Sisko, DS9: If Wishes Were Horses
        • The Three Musketeers — Barclay's holoprogram in TNG: Hollow Pursuits, based on Dumas; likely featured King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, and the Duke of Buckingham
        • Battle of Thermopylae — holoprogram referenced in DS9: What You Leave Behind; very probably included King Leonidas
        • Battle of the Alamo — Bashir/O'Brien holoprogram, DS9: Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night and DS9: The Changing Face of Evil
        • Battle of Britain — recurring Bashir/O'Brien holoprogram (many episodes); far less evidence that real figures appeared
      • Bonus — impersonated by crew members inside a holoprogram:
        • Henry V of England — impersonated by Data in TNG: The Defector
    • StackExchange/User/Spencer — score 3
      • TOS had no Holodeck, but since the question allowed TOS — figures recreated by aliens or long-lived beings:
        • Spectre of the Gun (S3E6): aliens recreate the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral — Wyatt Earp and brothers Virgil and Morgan, Doc Holliday, and Sheriff Johnny Behan
        • Requiem for Methuselah (S3E19): Solomon, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Brahms, and others, courtesy of the long-lived "Mr. Flint"
        • The Savage Curtain (S3E22): Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan, recreated by aliens for Kirk and Spock
        • Who Mourns for Adonais? (S2E2): Apollo — an edge case; a Greek god rather than strictly a real person

  • #My Notes

    • The Person/Albert Einstein / Person/Isaac Newton / Person/Stephen Hawking poker scene (TNG: Descent) is the basis for My/AI/Rule/How to Communicate Effectively With Me/Be like the holograms Data from ST:TNG conferred with.