Living Witness (Voyager episode)
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"Living Witness" is a fourth season episode of . It is widely regarded as one of the ten best Voyager episodes aired.
Quick Overview: A Kyrian museum curator 700 years in the future hopes a Voyager relic containing a copy of the Doctor can confirm their version of history.
The episode opens with a scene on the "warship Voyager", quite obviously an unrealistic depiction of the ship which turns out to be the museum's recreation of events. Although the brutality and detachment of the crew is chilling, there are some dark, campy elements of the alternate reality that provide comic relief. Chakotay's name is repeatedly mispronounced by the crew (as "CHAC-a-tay") and his tattoo has so grown in size as to cover half of his face. Janeway sports a butch haircut, evil black gloves, and excessive schadenfreude. Meanwhile, the Doctor has become a mass murderer while Tuvok has adopted a sinister sense of humour. The excesses and contradictions in these alterations provide both humour and a chance for the cast to portray completely different characters.
This episode has been subject to criticism for introducing a backup EMH programme as a plot device, displacing the long-established impossibility of backing the Doctor up ("Message in a Bottle", "The Swarm").
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