YMMV / Star Trek Voyager S 4 E 21 Living Witness

• Alternate Aesop Interpretation: The episode is mostly seen as making a general point about revisionism and the importance of unbiased and honest recording of history and open-minded examination of new evidence, but some have interpreted it as validating denial of historical atrocities.
• Fanfic Fuel: Having the Voyager crew being a terrifying evil conquest ship has potential of showing Starfleet's darker side.
• Franchise Original Sin: In their review of the much-loathed Star Trek: Enterprise finale "These Are The Voyages...", the m0vie blog thought "These Are The Voyages..." had some distinct similarities to "Living Witness", where characters experience a holographic recreation of the show's main crew. The difference, however, is that in "Living Witness", the person experiencing the holo-recreation is one of the show's regulars, who points out huge discrepancies within the program, whereas "These Are The Voyages..." ham-fistedly tries to fit Star Trek: The Next Generation's Riker and Troi into commenting on Enterprise, effectively turning the Enterprise ensemble into extras in their own show. To whit, "These Are The Voyages..." is technically the only episode in the entirety of Star Trek to not feature their show's regulars.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The backup Doctor's attempts to return to the Federation 700 years after Voyager is quite grim once you realize that would place the timeline around the 31st century, and Star Trek: Discovery shows that the Federation had essentially collapsed at that point, which is arguably as equally depressing as Voyager never making it home. However, this is mitigated by there being no way in hell the backup Doctor made it back before the fall of the Emerald Chain and the Federation's restoration.
• Just Here for Godzilla: The episode itself is one of the highest regarded of the entire series, but the most famous and remembered parts are scenes with the evil Voyager crew. The fact that "Voyager" never got a Mirror Universe episode has resulted in this one being held up as the closest thing.