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Living Witness

"Living Witness"
Star Trek: Voyager episode
Episode no. Season 4
Episode 23
Directed by Tim Russ
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller
Brannon Braga
Joe Menosky
Story by Brannon Braga
Featured music Dennis McCarthy
Production code 191
Original air date April 29, 1998 (1998-04-29)
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"Living Witness" is the 91st episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 23rd episode of the fourth season.

Overview: Events from Voyager's past are viewed through the eyes of history as museum spectators observe recreations of the past, nearly 700 years after the initial events. The Doctor's program is found and reactivated, allowing him to set the record straight. At the end of the episode, we see that it was actually all a recreation from an even more distant future.

The episode is partly set in the 31st century and partly in an unspecified distant future.

The episode opens with a scene on the "warship Voyager", an unrealistic depiction of the ship which turns out to be a museum's recreation of events. Although the brutality and detachment of the crew is chilling, there are several dark, campy elements of the alternate reality that provide comic relief: the crew wear altered versions of their uniforms with no combadges or rank insignia, but sport black gloves and turtlenecks. First Officer Chakotay's name is repeatedly mispronounced by the crew and his tattoo has grown in size as to cover half of his face and appears in the design of Māori Tā moko markings. Captain Janeway sports a butch haircut and excessive schadenfreude. Meanwhile, the holographic Doctor has become an android mass murderer while Tactical Officer Tuvok has adopted a sinister sense of humor; former drone Seven of Nine is a full Borg with several other Borg drones serving as shock troops onboard Voyager.


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