Mr. Flint

Mr. Flint, played by James Daly, was an immortal human in the fictional Star Trek universe. He was born in 3834 BC as Akharin in Mesopotamia, Earth. He was a soldier, a bully and a fool by his own admission. He learned that he was immortal when he fell in battle pierced in the heart and did not die. He also learned to conceal the fact-- to pretend to age and move on.

History
He was many famous people throughout history: Johannes Brahms, Leonardo DaVinci, Solomon, Alexander the Great, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin, Abrahmson, and a hundred other people we do not know. He knew some of the greatest minds in history: Galileo, Socrates and Moses. He was present in Constantinople in 1334 and witnessed bubonic plague kill half of Europe. He has married hundreds of times and to his anguish watch his loved ones age and die.

In 2237, Mr. Flint purchased the planet Holberg 917G in the Omega system using the assumed name of Mr. Brack. He built a magnificant home there that resembled the Rigel VII Fortress. He was found living on that planet by the crew of the starship Enterprise in 2269.

Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) of the starship Enterprise discovered Mr. Flint's true identity when he identified a recently written Brahms manuscript using comtemporary paper and inks and in Brahms own handwriting which Mr. Spock recognized. Mr. Spock also discovered a recent da Vinci painting utilizing contemporary materials using da Vinci's own painting strokes which again Mr. Spock recognized.

Years later, in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, Captain Janeway would recreate Leonardo da Vinci on the holodeck. She mentioned in the episode "Concerning Flight" that Captain Kirk "claims to have met da Vinci, but that the evidence was hardly conclusive."

Accomplishments
Mr. Flint acquired a large collection of original works of art throughout his enormous lifespan. Some of these works were of his own creation. Among his collection:


 * A Shakespare first folio,
 * A Gutenberg Bible
 * Creation litographs of Taranullus of Centauri VII
 * Paintings from Reginald Pollack
 * Paintings from Sten of Marcus II.
 * Some of his own original da Vinci works, several unpublished works of Shakespeare, and a manuscript from Brahms.

Trivia

 * The matte painting of Flint's Home was a re-use of the Rigel VII Fortress from the Trek episode "The Cage"/"The Menagerie
 * The name Rayna Kapec was named after Czechoslovakian writer Karel Čapek, who coined the term "robot" in the classic Sci-Fi play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots).
 * James Daly is the father of Tim Daly better known as Joe Hackett from the television series "Wings". He is also the father of Tyne Daly, best known as Lacey in Cagney and Lacey.
 * The episode Requiem for Methuselah like the classic Sci-Fi film Forbidden Planet is based on Shakespare's Play  "The Tempest"