Flint Flint was an immortal Human from Earth who lived under several aliases over a span of 6 , 000 years . During his lifetime , Flint watched Humanity evolve from savagery and barbarism , and he both knew , and indeed was , some of the greatest minds in Earth history . Physical characteristics . Flint ' s cause of immortality was a form of instant tissue regeneration which was coupled with a form of perfect biological renewal . A side effect of this condition was sheer strength twice that of normal Humans . Flint himself appeared as a medium build Caucasian Human with white hair , although over his enormous lifetime Flint ' s appearance may very well have changed . At various points in history , Flint had taken up several alias es , some of whom looked nothing alike . Chronology . Early history . Flint was born as Akharin in 3834 BC in Mesopotamia , where he grew up to become " " a soldier , a bully , and a fool . " " Sometime shortly before the year 3800 BC , Flint was deployed in an ancient battle and fell in combat after receiving a serious wound to his heart . After Flint did not die , he realized his immortal nature and began living a portion of a life , achieving various accomplishments and sometimes marrying ( Flint later stated that he had married over a hundred times ) , then discarding one identity for another before his true nature could be suspected . Between 3000 and 2000 BC , Flint lived primarily in the Middle East , in particular the lands associated with the Bible . He was at one point the basis for the Biblical character of Methuselah . Sometime around 1400 to 1200 BC , Flint ( who was by then well over two thousand years old ) also knew the historical figure Moses . A thousand years later , circa 970 BC , the nearly three thousand - year - old Flint adopted his first ( known ) alias which became a major figure in world history – that of the Jewish King Solomon . Some four hundred years after that , Flint had moved himself to the region of ancient Greece , where at one point he knew the philosopher Socrates . Two hundred years later , in 356 BC , Flint again became a major historical figure when he assumed the alias of Alexander the Great . ( ) Anno Domini . By the first century AD , Flint was approaching 4 , 000 years of age and had lived through nearly the entirety of recorded history ( up to that point ) . By this time , he had lived as at least two world leaders ( Solomon and Alexander ) and had seen death on a scale beyond imagination . In his own words two thousand years later , Flint " " had seen a hundred billion fall , and had tossed enemies into [ death ' s ] grasp . " " In his later years , these early experiences with Humankind caused Flint see Earth as a savage and barbaric place regardless of the era . Around 30 AD , Flint was again living in the Middle East and at some point became associated with the religious figure Jesus . Again , Flint became the basis for a Biblical character when he was known by the name . After the fall of the Western Roman Empire , Flint appears to have moved into Europe where , in the 6th century , he was residing in England , where he became known as the wizard Merlin . For most of the early Middle Ages , the identities and lives led by Flint are unknown ; however , in the 14th century , he was living in the city of Constantinople where he witnessed the start of the bubonic plague . As Flint later described : Renaissance . At the dawn of the so called " Age of the Renaissance , " Flint had seemingly abandoned his early ambitions of world leadership and military conquest , and he instead began to focus on improving the Human condition through the study of art and science . Sometime after 1450 , he assumed the identity of an Italian under the alias Leonardo da Vinci . This is perhaps one of the most famous identities Flint ever held , since while he lived as da Vinci , Flint created works of art which would be well known centuries later . The painting " " Mona Lisa " , " correctly titled " La Gioconda , " is one such work ; it eventually found its way into the hands of the criminal Kivas Fajo before being retrieved by Federation authorities thanks to the efforts of the android officer Data . ( ; ) Leonardo da Vinci " died " in AD 1519 , after which Flint moved on to assume different unknown identities . He apparently remained in Italy since , circa AD 1600 , he knew the scientist Galileo Galilei . Flint eventually left this life as well , moving into the AD 1700s under several other " names we do not know . " ( ) 19th and 20th centuries . At the start of the 19th Century , Flint was apparently still residing in Europe and , as early as 1833 , he had adopted another alias which became famous as the music al composer Johannes Brahms . As Brahms , Flint resided mainly in Austria and wrote several musical pieces which were still popular centuries later . Most of Flint ' s time in the 19th century was spent living as Brahms , with Johannes Brahms " dying " in 1897 . ( ) Sometime in the latter 20th century , Flint acquired a painting by Reginald Pollack , or perhaps even lived as Pollack himself . 21st and 22nd centuries . Flint ' s activities in the 21st and 22nd centuries are largely unknown , as he did not speak of who he was or what he was doing during this period when encountered by Starfleet officers a hundred years later . Sometime in the 2100s , Flint acquired a bottle of Saurian brandy . He was also presumably still living on Earth when the United Federation of Planets was founded in 2161 , although , seventy years later , Flint left due to " " the unpleasantness of life on Earth and the company of people . " " ( ) 23rd century . In 2239 , living as the interstellar financier Brack , Flint bought the planet Holberg 917G in the Omega system . It was uninhabited , and he took great measures to keep up that appearance . Flint built a magnificent home on the planet , where he lived a reclusive life . While living on Holberg 917G Flint engineered a succession of female android s in the quest for an undying love partner . Each bore the name Rayna , and the final , perfect manifestation – Rayna 17 – was not allowed to know of her failed predecessors . In 2269 , the Federation starship arrived in orbit over Holberg 917G , in dire need of that planet ' s ryetalyn deposits as an antitoxin for the Rigelian fever which had infected the entire crew . Flint then introduced himself to the landing party , just short of their being killed by Flint ' s robot M - 4 . Hoping to jump - start Rayna 17 ' s emotions , Flint allowed her to interact with the visitors . The android fell in love with Captain James T . Kirk , but could not transfer this emotion back to her disappointed creator . Forced to choose between her suitors and unable to hurt either , she ceased to function , much to Flint ' s horror . Spock deduced from musical pieces by Brahms ( written in modern ink ) and da Vinci paintings , all authentic on contemporary canvas , that Flint must be very long - lived . After this was revealed , however , Doctor Leonard McCoy later discovered that Akharin / Flint , finally , was dying , since his immortality had been sustained by Earth ' s complex fields , and had been sacrificed in the relocation to Holberg 917G . Flint stated that he would devote the time before his imminent natural death to the improvement of the Human condition . Acquisitions . Flint gathered a large collection of original works of visual art . Some were his own creation ( as daVinci ) ; other works included Taranullus lithographs and paintings by Pollack , Sten , and Melozzo da Forlí . Besides his original and unknown Brahms scores , Flint possessed a Shakespeare First Folio and a Gutenberg Bible . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Flint was played by actor James Daly . In the first draft script by Jerome Bixby , Flint claimed to have been Jesus Christ and Moses . NBC Broadcast Standards ordered the producers to eliminate these two historical aliases , claiming they might upset religious viewers . In the filmed episode , Flint only refers to have known Moses . ( " " ) Flint would also have claimed to have been Pablo Picasso and Ludwig van Beethoven . The Picasso reference was removed for fear that the artist himself ( still alive at that time ) might legally challenge the producers for claiming to have anything to do with forged pictures . Beethoven was changed to Johannes Brahms because Beethoven had never written any waltzes , when one have serves as accompaniment for Kirk and Rayna ' s dance . ( " " ) Reginald Pollack ( 1924 - 2001 ) , was , at the time of the episode ' s production was still alive . Whether Flint lived as Pollack , or merely owned one of his paintings , is not made clear . , a film also written by Bixby , concerns a similar main character , who , following his birth during the Paleolithic era , lives to the present day and adopts aliases , including that of Jesus , as Flint would have originally done . In the episode , Janeway comments that Kirk claimed to have met Leonardo da Vinci . This would implying either that Kirk broke his promise to Flint not to reveal his identity or that he revealed it following Flint ' s death . According to " Entertainment Weekly , " an episode of the proposed fifth season of was " on the drawing board " to reportedly have featured Flint , under a previous alias , coming into contact with the crew of . No script was written , but initial storyboard ideas suggested a confirmation of Flint ' s alias of Abramson as a famous Earth scientist who would possibly have known either Henry Archer and / or Zefram Cochrane . At the conclusion of the episode , Phlox would have discovered Flint ' s unique biological characteristics , setting up the latter ' s negative views on discussing his background with anyone and explaining the " disaster of intervention " reference in the " Original Series " episode . Flint has claimed to fake his death when moving from one identity to the other . While the final resting place of Alexander is the subject of much debate and myth , several historical figures that he has claimed to be ( notably da Vinci and Brahms ) have final resting places that are known , which introduces questions as to whose body lies in these places . Apocrypha . Flint is featured as a supporting character in the novel " " , in which his primary guise as a billionaire industrialist seems to have already begun devoting himself to the betterment of the Human condition . He also appears in " The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh , Volume One " as Dr . Wilson Evergreen , the leader of an Antarctic station preparing to repair damage to the ozone layer , where he meets Gary Seven and is " killed " by a young Khan Noonien Singh . He also appears in the novel " The Cry of the Onlies " , where he comes aboard the " Enterprise " to help defeat a cloaking device he invented . He reactivates Juliana Tainer in the novel " Immortal Coil " to serve as a companion . Later on , the crew of the had an encounter with him – as Emil Vaslovik – in the novel " Immortal Coil " . ( Vaslovik is also the name of Questor ' s android creator in , a TV pilot on whose writing Genes Coon and Roddenberry collaborated before Coon ' s death . ) In yet another guise , Flint made an appearance in the story " Immortality Blues " in " Strange New Worlds 9 " , living in New York City when World War III began . In the novel " " : " " , Data sets out to find Flint – based on his role in reactivating Juliana – so that he can help Data reactivate Lal . In " Star Trek - Legion of Super - Heroes " , the comic book crossover from IDW Publishing , Flint is revealed to be an alternate continuum counterpart to immortal DC Comics villain . In the story , Flint / Savage , then known as " Vandar the Stone , " imprisons Q , who had traveled back in time to the dawn of man , and used Q ' s power and knowledge to alter history and become a tyrannical dictator . In the 23rd Century , he attempts to interrogate Kirk and various Legionnaires who have arrived in his timeline - the Legionnaires were already time - travelling and Kirk and some of the senior staff were transporting down to Earth apparently at the moment Vandar ' s actions changed history - to learn about their history so that he can " avoid their mistakes " . Despite being tortured by Vandar , Kirk dismisses his empire as nothing but the grand ambitions of a stupid caveman who never learned to look to the future and find a way of living aside from conquest , proclaiming that Vandar fundamentally cannot understand the future . Eventually , having traveled back in time themselves , Spock and are able to free Q ( " Vandar Stone " trapped Q by preventing anyone else now living from releasing him , only for Spock to bypass that instruction as he had not been born yet ) , thereby undoing the damage to the timeline . The story concludes with Q – in a guise that resembles Trelane – visiting Flint in the 23rd century , with Flint noting that he abandoned conquest after witnessing so much death in Mesopotamia , prompting Q to reflect that there may be another Flint out there in the multiverse who did not abandon violence .