Living Witness is a fantastic episode.

[Gingerbread Demon]

What a fantastic episode?

I've never watched this one in its entirety and it's a bloody fantastic episode.. It also seemed very fitting for today with events that were happening today. I felt the episode more then fitting for today's events and the times we are living in.

Continuing on with the rest of season 4.

 

[Oddish]

It was worth watching just for Psychopath Janeway, Android Doctor, and a Voyager with souped-up weapons and Kazon crew.

 

[DonIago]

KRAD just reviewed it up on TOR as well, if you're interested.

Janeway's opening monologue was an Instant Classic(tm).

 

[Finn]

Just had a genius idea! Have that EMH show up on Discovery, trying to find out what happened to Voyager.

 

[Qonundrum]

It's an absolutely brilliant episode, in concept, in showing the crew being evil (and in a new way), you name it. Top-5 if not top-3 with absolute ease.

 

[Qonundrum]

KRAD just reviewed it up on TOR as well, if you're interested.

Janeway's opening monologue was an Instant Classic(tm).

I thought he detested VOY? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, and it's been rather a while... if he's actually doing VOY episodes now then that might be a great one to visit before others, not that I would disagree with him on some...

 

[DonIago]

Just because you don't like something generally doesn't mean you can't critique it. I think his reviews have been pretty fair, but maybe I'm a hater, heh.

 

[Qonundrum]

Just because you don't like something generally doesn't mean you can't critique it. I think his reviews have been pretty fair, but maybe I'm a hater, heh.

My original thought back in the day he hated the show and would never ever bother with it. The fact he is makes me intrigued and not in a bad way because I rather enjoyed if not adored his reviews and prose.

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Indeed, I just took a peek, starting with season 3, and his season 3 summary indicated his surprise over a lack of comments over an episode he felt was one of the season's stronger ones: "Alter Ego". (A story that shrouds its influences very well for the most part, while adding new items of interest, including a great red herring, as well as offering up a fantastic outing for Tuvok - quite an underrated character to begin with.)

He's also right about Seven, in determining an outfit for herself later on. The Gift episode did seem to hurry along the Borg implant removals, but it was hurrying along getting Kes out of the show too... Looks like I've got a weekend's worth of fun reading, am glad he's finally covering the show proper.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I wonder if they all had fun playing darker versions of their characters, this was as close as we ever get to Mirror Voyager. I liked bad Janeway

 

[Finn]

One thing bothered me a little is how the "mirror" EMH resembled Data- skin tone and eye color. How would they know what a Soong android looked like...unless they pulled up a file on Data??

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

One thing bothered me a little is how the "mirror" EMH resembled Data- skin tone and eye color. How would they know what a Soong android looked like...unless they pulled up a file on Data??

Then again... retroactively viewed , Soong type Androids started their own little civilization and might be widespread throughout the galaxy with well documented history.

 

[Court_Vince]

It is one of VOY's best, along with being a Trek top 10. The twist absolutely floored me first time through, And the commentary on revisionist along great MU-esque costumes and acting, makes me want to give it a rewatch rn!

 

[Voth commando1]

Living Witness is a wonderful commentary on historical revisionism and how history is wielded for contemporaneous political and social conflicts, and the first half of the episode is as close to mirror universe Voyager as we ever got.

Definitely one of the best of Voyager, and the best of Trek as a whole.

 

[Oddish]

I could totally see that being Voyager in the Mirror Universe. The same place that gave us goatee Spock, kinky Kira, and Empress Hoshi Sato...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I could totally see that being Voyager in the Mirror Universe. The same place that gave us goatee Spock, kinky Kira, and Empress Hoshi Sato...

I know. Evil Janeway was a lot of fun.

 

[at Quark's]

It was worth watching just for Psychopath Janeway, Android Doctor, and a Voyager with souped-up weapons and Kazon crew.

It was worth watching even if only for Evil Wimp Harry already.
KIM: Look, I can keep this up all day. Tell the Commander what he wants to know. <beats prisoner> Maybe I can't keep this up all day.

 

[Voth commando1]

Closest we ever got to a MU Voyager(Author Author wasn't quite as hammy evil and fun). I've always had a personal headcanon it was in a MU timeline and the mobile emitter simply passed through different timelines when it was lost.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Always nice to see alternate versions of characters.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Always nice to see alternate versions of characters.

It really is.. I loved the souped up Voyager and Nasty Janeway was most excellent.

 

[nic3636]

Easily one of my favorite episodes of the series. Nice way to an MU style episode but at the same time giving some thoughtful commentary on societal relations and revisionist history.

It was worth watching even if only for Evil Wimp Harry already.
KIM: Look, I can keep this up all day. Tell the Commander what he wants to know. <beats prisoner> Maybe I can't keep this up all day.

That's why Evil Harry is still an ensign