Living Witness
- Episode aired Apr 29, 1998
- TV-PG
- 46m
The Doctor awakens in the museum of an alien culture seven hundred years in the future, where Voyager is thought to have been a passing warship full of cold-blooded killers.The Doctor awakens in the museum of an alien culture seven hundred years in the future, where Voyager is thought to have been a passing warship full of cold-blooded killers.The Doctor awakens in the museum of an alien culture seven hundred years in the future, where Voyager is thought to have been a passing warship full of cold-blooded killers.
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (credit only)
- Holographic Aide
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsSince when does Voyager have a backup of the Doctor's program?
Ever since the Doctor received his mobile holo-emitter in Future's End: Part II (1996) the Voyager crew has worried about losing him entirely, because he is downloaded into the device and its damage or loss would mean the program's loss. In other words, nothing remained of the Doctor in the computer or as a backup when he was using the emitter.
This lack of a backup was never directly explained, but it made sense. The Doctor's program was large, so much so that in The Swarm (1996) Voyager has to sacrifice its Jupiter Station diagnostic program in order to allow the Doctor to expand into the diagnostic's storage capacity and thus continue running every day and expanding his personality.
The size of the program means it could perhaps not be backed up (the fact it can still be downloaded into the tiny mobile emitter can be explained by the fact this device is from the 29th century).
- Quotes
[in the Doctor's simulation]
The Doctor: I'll go first, Captain, and draw any fire if need be.
Vaskan Ambassador Daleth: Your crew is heroic, Captain.
The Doctor: I just happen to be invulnerable to phaser fire, but I appreciate the compliment.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
I love how they portray the voyager crew as a ruthless merciless band of thugs tromping their way through the galaxy, pretty much throwing the morality book out the air lock with their black leather gloves on. It's bold and epic, and yet in a comically tasteful or tasteless way such that it's intriguing, gripping and down right funny.
The first 15 minutes of the episode is hysterical, I loved seeing Voyager armed with all that arsenal, the crew bent on destruction, and it's backup Borg security protocol lol! Talk about a well oil'd machine in the interest of self preservation and domination!
Perhaps what I find most intriguing about the episode is it tactfully strides on the concept of different nations perspectives on events of history and how it puts them in the best of light. I'm from America and this is an American show, and while I detest war I can't help but wonder how other nations view shared events in history. How our history books might differ from theirs, and I suspect they do... I'm not political, yet I have often felt we as the "Good o'l US of A" take on a somewhat bullish or dominance precedence in world affairs, getting involved in foreign soil affairs and wars which don't or at least shouldn't concern us. Okay I'm sure I stepped in it now... but in part that's what this episode makes me think about
Overall great episode, nice to see them change things up, jump off the deep end and just go for it. Very original episode, even if it was already done in TOS, still a great episode!
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- May 27, 2015
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3