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Star Trek: Voyager


“Living Witness”

Episode Number91 (4.23)
Production Number191
Season4
Stardate
Original Airdate29-Apr-1998
StoryBrannon Braga
TeleplayBryan Fuller and Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
DirectorTim Russ
Quarren and The Doctor paved the way to unity
Synopsis

A curious holographic tableau is on display in a Kyrian Museum and the curator, Quarren, explains to visitors how the intervention of the U.S.S. Voyager spacecraft started an apocalyptic war on a planet inhabited by two species: the Kyrians and the Vaskans. Ethnic rivalries between the two races are still uneasy, seven hundred years after the U.S.S. Voyager has come and gone, and some Vaskan visitors are appalled by the Kyrians reconstruction of history based on a few recovered artifacts. But more damaging information is on the way, when Quarren activates a newly discovered device containing active data. This turns out to be a backup of Voyager's Emergency Medical Holographic Doctor, who soon finds himself on trial for war crimes attributed to the U.S.S. Voyager and its crew over seven centuries ago.

Guest Cast

Henry Woronicz (Quarren)
Rod Arrants (Daleth)
Craig Richard Nelson (Vaskan Arbiter)
Marie Chambers (Kyrian Arbiter)
Brian Fitzpatrick (Tedran)
Morgan Margolis (Vaskan visitor)

Notes
  • This is Tim Russ' directorial debut.
  • Henry Woronicz played Gegen in season 3's "Distant Origin".
  • In the Kryian museum simulation of the "Warship Voyager," The Doctor is an android; Kim is a Lieutenant who does the torturing of prisoners; "Che Ko Tay's" tattoo covers the entire left half of his face; Neelix was a member of the bridge crew; B'Elanna was the transporter chief; Seven of Nine was fully Borg and there were other Borg drones, who assimilated the Kyrian intruders.
  • Best line: "Somewhere half-way across the galaxy, Captain Janeway is spinning in her grave." — The Doctor.