Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series)

Living Witness (1998)

Henry Woronicz: Quarren

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• [the Doctor has dismissed Quarren's historical simulation as pure fiction] 

  Quarren : This is a reasonable extrapolation from historic record, but if you'd like to point out any inconsistencies...

  The Doctor : 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.

• The Doctor : Voyager wasn't a warship. We were explorers!

  Quarren : Yes, I know. Trying to get home, to Mars.

  The Doctor : Earth! You see, you couldn't even get THAT right!

• Quarren : Ever since I was a small child, the first time I heard the name Voyager, it conjured up my imagination.

  The Doctor : Even though we were the bad guys?

  Quarren : That didn't matter. I was too young to understand the implications. The fact that you were so far from home traveling across the stars... Ah, I found it all very heroic. I suppose Voyager is what made me fall in love with history.

  The Doctor : If it means anything to you, you would have made a fine member of our crew.

• The Doctor : Seven hundred years and I'm still caught in the middle of your little dispute. One might have hoped for a bit of social progress in the interim.

  Quarren : Change never comes easily for us.

  The Doctor : Hm, that's an understatement.

• Quarren : [stunned]  You... are a hologram!

  The Doctor : That I know!

• The Doctor : Seven hundred years! What about my ship? What happened to my crew?

  Quarren : No one knows. It's safe to say they're long dead.

  The Doctor : And I'm some sort of... fossil?

  Quarren : No, not a fossil. A witness, a living witness to history! There's so much we don't know about what happened, but you saw it. You lived through those times. You helped to shape them. Doctor, you could be the most important discovery of all time!

• Quarren : You're trying to protect yourself.

  The Doctor : And so are you - from the truth! Isn't it a coincidence that the Kyrians are being portrayed in the best possible light? Martyrs, heroes, saviors... Obviously, events have been reinterpreted to make your people feel better about themselves. Revisionist history - it's such a comfort.

• The Doctor : I'm a medical hologram, programed to do no harm, but I'm doing harm on a global scale. Ever since you reactivated me, I've been concerned with clearing Voyager's good name, but that's not important now. There's more at stake!

  Quarren : A few days ago I might have agreed with you - but what about the facts?

  The Doctor : Facts be damned! Names, dates, places, it's all open to interpretation. Who's to say what really happened? And ultimately, what difference does it make? What matters is today, and the future of your people.

  Quarren : Doctor, you were there! You can't deny what happened!

  The Doctor : I can... and I will. Tedran was a martyr for your people, a hero, a symbol of your struggle for freedom. Who am I to wander in seven hundred years later and take that away from you?

  Quarren : History has been abused! We keep blaming each other for what happened in the past. If you don't help us now, it could be another seven hundred years.

• Quarren : There are other... issues to be resolved.

  The Doctor : What kind of issues?

  Quarren : You're the Voyager doctor. A lot of people are going to have questions. On our world, artificial life-forms are considered sentient and responsible for their actions. You might have to face charges.

  The Doctor : Charges?

  Quarren : For your crimes. You designed the bio-weapon that killed eight million Kyrians.

  The Doctor : I did nothing of the sort.

  Quarren : All of our evidence shows that you were a war criminal.

• Quarren : Calm yourself.

  The Doctor : Why should I? I'm about to be hanged for crimes I didn't commit!