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 "Meditations", Descartes phrases the conclusion of the argument as "that the proposition, "I am, I exist," is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." ("Meditation" II) At the beginning of the second meditation, having reached what he considers to be the ultimate level of doubt—his argument from the existence of a deceiving god—Descartes examines his beliefs to see if any have survived the doubt. In his belief in his own existence, he finds that it is impossible to doubt that he exists. Even if there were a deceiving god (or an evil demon),