Projections (Star Trek: Voyager) Projections (Star Trek: Voyager) "Projections" is the 19th (3rd in the ) episode of the American science fiction television program "". Originally slated for the first season, the episode originally aired on September 11, 1995, and tells the story of having an identity crisis on the holodeck regarding whether he or the world around him is the illusion. Brannon Braga compared "Projections" to the work of René Descartes, and wrote the episode around the premise of "cogito ergo sum", questioning whether the Doctor or the "Voyager" is the illusion. Beating out LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge) for the guest appearance,
Cogito, ergo sum but insofar as I am, I am "moribundus". The "MORIBUNDUS" first gives the "SUM" its sense." The Scottish philosopher John Macmurray rejects the "cogito" outright in order to place action at the center of a philosophical system he entitles the Form of the Personal. "We must reject this, both as standpoint and as method. If this be philosophy, then philosophy is a bubble floating in an atmosphere of unreality." The reliance on thought creates an irreconcilable dualism between thought and action in which the unity of experience is lost, thus dissolving the integrity of our selves, and destroying any connection