Living Witness ( episode ) Reactivated after lying inactive for seven hundred years , a backup version of The Doctor tries to uncover the truth about war crimes supposedly committed by " Voyager " when they passed a planet centuries ago . Summary . Teaser . Captain Janeway , sporting uncharacteristically short hair and black gloves , negotiates with Vaskan ambassador Daleth about fighting a war with their Kyrian neighbors . She indicates that she sees all the benefits for him , but doesn ' t see how it helps her at all . The ambassador explains that they know of a wormhole nearby ; they can give her the coordinates and tell her how to stabilize it . Janeway agrees and then the ship shakes . They emerge onto the bridge and Janeway demands a situation report . Neelix , at ops and in a gold Starfleet uniform , reports they are under attack by Kyrians . Janeway begins ordering use of biogenic weapon s on the population . Daleth objects , saying the people themselves are innocent and they ' re only concerned with the leader , Tedran , but Janeway insists it ' s the best way to bring him down . Implemented by The Doctor , appearing to be an android , informs Janeway that he has finished integrating the biogenic weapon with the ship ' s phasers . Janeway orders the ship to fire . This is all a simulation , being viewed from a window into a room clearly not from " Voyager " . It is a museum , the Museum of Kyrian Heritage . An older Kyrian , , explains to a group of Kyrians and Vaskans how the " " visited seven hundred years ago and had a lasting impact on them , even to their day . Act One . One of the guests becomes curious and starts asking questions about " Voyager " and its impact on the area . Quarren admits they are uncertain about a lot of things , but he is certain the ship impacted many worlds and " assimilated " other species to serve on the ship of about 300 soldiers . " Voyager " s behavior and impact will be explained in more detail in the rest of the simulation . Back in the simulation , Janeway is impatient on the slowly - increasing death toll and they fire on the planet and Tuvok reports a death toll in the thousands , promising it will climb to several hundred thousand within an hour . Daleth objects again , and Janeway insists that he ' ll keep up his end of the bargain and detains him . Janeway then focuses on locating the Kyrian leader , Tedran . Again in sickbay , ' Lieutenant ' Kim and Chakotay ( sporting a New Zealand Maori tattoo , and whose name is pronounced " Chako - tay " ) are interrogating a Kyrian using beatings and , eventually , a painful toxin . Chakotay soon informs the Captain they know where Tedran is , and leads an assault team to retrieve him . Another alert sounds and Neelix reports that a boarding party has infiltrated engineering and erected force fields . Janeway initiates a " Borg activation program " . A fully Borg Seven of Nine activates in cargo bay two along with three other drones . They transport into engineering and subdue the invaders . Janeway instructs her to assimilate the surviving two . Janeway then meets the captive Tedran and an associate in a room on the ship and ends up executing both personally when they won ' t surrender . Tedran challenges Janeway for destroying their home so they can get to theirs , and Daleth for involving them when they could have resolved the situation peacefully . Back in the museum , Quarren encourages his guests to remember the story of how " Voyager " s intervention brought the Vaskans to power , and to look around the rest of the museum . Act Two . While guests are looking around the museum , one of the Vaskans angrily questions the story ' s validity , taking issue with the portrayal of his species . Quarren informs him that the evidence has been examined carefully , and , furthermore , a data storage device , buried nine meter s beneath the ruins of Kesef and that came from " Voyager " , has been recently uncovered . The device might contain personal log s or other proof directly from " Voyager " . Later that night , Quarren begins a dictation describing how he ' s had trouble accessing the data on the storage device and is going to try to use tools from the simulation on the device because they might be more compatible . He ends up successfully accessing ' s program ; the data source is actually a backup copy of the EMH . The Doctor is immediately confused about being in engineering without his mobile emitter , and the presence of a Kyrian . He tries to warn the rest of the ship . Slowly , Quarren tries to explain that it ' s a simulation , and that 700 years have passed , give or take a decade , but The Doctor refuses to accept it , until he runs out of engineering into the museum and is faced with reality . Act Three . The Doctor comes to grips with the new time he ' s in , looking at the artifacts around him . The Doctor starts looking over information and becomes more and more upset . Quarren informs him that he ' s a great source of data , but that in his culture artificial life forms are held responsible for their actions , so he may have to stand trial for war crimes . The Doctor is outraged at the implication that he is culpable and at the portrayal of " Voyager " as a warship . Quarren says they drew reasonable conclusions based on the evidence , but The Doctor points out that the fact they believed " Voyager " was trying to get home to Mars rather than Earth only highlights the problem . Quarren offers to show The Doctor the full recreation and he can judge for himself . They watch a scene in " Voyager " s briefing room where the senior staff begin arguing over plans for winning the war until it degenerates into a fistfight Janeway has to break up with a phaser blast . The Doctor is horrified , explaining that no one ( except maybe Mr . Paris ) behaved that way . Once they get to the execution scene , The Doctor challenges Quarren by pointing out that the Kyrians are portrayed very favorably and Tedran a martyr when in reality he was the leader of a group of Kyrians that launched an unprovoked attack on " Voyager " , suggesting the whole thing is nothing but revisionist history . Quarren angrily dismisses The Doctor ' s interpretations , telling him that since the great war between the Kyrians and the Vaskans his race has been oppressed and that ' s all the evidence he needs before he deactivates his program . Act Four . After taking some time to think , Quarren admits to himself that the fact The Doctor is a hologram when they thought he was an android is indisputable , and may cast the rest of their interpretation into doubt . He reactivates The Doctor ' s program and , after a little bit of arguing , he allows The Doctor to create his own holographic version of events . The Doctor creates another simulation of " Voyager " s encounter with the Kyrians . The scene in Janeway ' s ready room describes a negotiation with Daleth for dilithium in exchange for medical supplies , but just as they were about to seal the deal , the ship is boarded by a Kyrian raiding party . Security responds in engineering , but the Kyrians have already killed three engineering crewmen and take Seven of Nine and another crewman hostage . They move to deck two and Janeway , The Doctor , and Daleth work with the security team to corner the Kyrians , including Tedran , in the mess hall . Once there , security manages to subdue the Kyrians , but not before Daleth takes advantage of the confusion and shoots Tedran , killing him . When the simulation ends , The Doctor , Quarren , and three representatives , two Vaskan , one Kyrian , are shown to have been watching . The Kyrian representative dismisses The Doctor ' s recreation as pure fiction and lies to save him from the charges against him , but the Vaskans are more open to his interpretation since they have always been painted as the aggresive race that started the war between their people . The Kyrian representative demands hard proof , and The Doctor says the medical tricorder they have in the museum is the same one he used to scan Tedran ; if they can get it working , he can prove Tedran died from being shot with a Vaskan weapon and not a Federation phaser . The Vaskans approve Quarran ' s investigation , while the Kyrian opposes it and promises to see The Doctor pay for his ' crimes ' . The Doctor and Quarren begin working on the tricorder and begin reminiscing about The Doctor ' s experiences on " Voyager " and Quarren ' s fascination with it . In the middle of their musings , however , a mob storms the museum and begins destroying the displays and artifacts , angry that they ' ve been told lies about how the war started . Act Five . Quarren and The Doctor take cover as the mob destroys everything . Furthermore , they lose the tricorder in the riot . The next day , as they look for it , Quarren explains to The Doctor that the new revelations have snapped the tension that has been steadily building between the Kyrians and the Vaskans over the previous hundreds of years . While the Vaskans are keen to hear his side , the Kyrians are very angry over The Doctor ' s version of events which paint them in a more negative light . There ' s even talk of another war brewing between them . The Doctor states that he should be shut down , because as an EMH , he is obliged to help people , and his continued presence is causing riots and intense anger among both races and points out that what really happened is open to interpretation . Quarren refutes his argument , as The Doctor was there at the events and no - one should deny what he saw . The Doctor initially refuses to remain , telling him that for hundreds of years Tedran was a martyr to his people and he doesn ' t have the right to take that away . Quarran angrily tells The Doctor that history itself has been abused , and all the Kyrians and Vaskans have done since then is blame each other for what happened in the past . Unless the story of what really happened is set right , the constant fighting and pressure could continue for centuries . The Doctor relents , and they continue to look for the tricorder . Further into the future , a group of Kyrians and Vaskans stand around a viewscreen , watching these events unfold . Another tour guide explains how this was a turning point in their peoples ' history , and how it finally brought about equality between the Kyrians and the Vaskans . Quarren died six years later , long enough to see the beginning of the peace he helped create . The Doctor became Surgical Chancellor of the united races for many years , before leaving in a small craft to trace " Voyager " s path back to the Alpha Quadrant , claiming to have " " a longing for home " " . Memorable quotes . " " Why do you always keep me waiting , Tuvok ? " " " " Even today , seven hundred years later , we are still feeling the impact of the " Voyager " encounter . " " " " Captain , don ' t you think that ' s excessive ? " " " " You picked a bad time to have second thoughts , ambassador . " " " " I want them defeated , but . . . but this is genocide . " " " " Defeat ? Genocide ? Why quibble with semantics ? " " " " Don ' t look so shocked , ambassador . This is what you wanted , isn ' t it ? " " " " What ' s going to happen to me now ? Will you put me on display ? The holographic Rip van Winkle ? " " " Voyager " wasn ' t a warship ! We were explorers ! " " " " Yes , I know . Trying to get home , to Mars . " " " Earth " ! You see , you couldn ' t even get " that " right ! " " " " You have a better idea , lieutenant ? " " " " As a matter of fact , I do . Fighter shuttles – a direct assault . " " " " Led by you ? Good luck . " " " " Watch your mouth , hedgehog ! " " " " Pure fiction . This is absurd . " " " " Halt re - creation . This is a reasonable extrapolation from historic record . But if you ' d like to point out any inconsistencies . . . " " " " Inconsistencies ? I don ' t know where to begin . Granted , this looks like the briefing room , but these aren ' t the people I knew ! No one behaved like this . . . well , aside from Mr . Paris . " " " " Somewhere – halfway across the galaxy , I hope – Captain Janeway is spinning in her grave . " " " " You ' ve portrayed us as monsters : the captain is a cold - blooded killer , the crew is a gang of thugs and I am a mass - murderer . " " " " I ' ll go first , captain , and draw any fire if need be . " " " " Your crew is heroic , captain . . . " " " " I just happen to be invulnerable to phaser fire - but I appreciate the compliment . " " " " For your information , I don ' t appreciate being deactivated in the middle of a sentence . It brings back . . . unpleasant memories . " " " " You miss them , don ' t you ? " " " " B ' Elanna Torres . . . intelligent , beautiful , and with a chip on her shoulder the size of the Horsehead Nebula . " " " " Please state the nature of the medical – oh . . . it ' s you . " " " " From my perspective , I saw them all only a few days ago . But in fact , it ' s been centuries . And I ' ll never see them again . Did they ever reach home ? I wonder . 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