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 As a critic of Cartesian subjectivity, Heidegger sought to ground human subjectivity in death as that certainty which individualizes and authenticates our being. As he wrote in 1927: "This certainty, that "I myself am in that I will die," is the basic certainty of Dasein itself. It is a genuine statement of Dasein, while "cogito sum" is only the semblance of such a statement. If such pointed formulations mean anything at all, then the appropriate statement pertaining to Dasein in its being would have to be "sum moribundus" [I am in dying], "moribundus" not as someone gravely ill or wounded,