Voyager S4 · E23
Living Witness
An alien species claims that the "Warship Voyager" was responsible for war crimes committed against them.
Why is this here?
The placement of "Living Witness" is an interesting topic for discussion. Chronologically, it’s telling a story ABOUT events in 2374, but is actually set “700 years later”, placing it around approximately 3074. In addition, at the end we pull back to another framing device taking place some unknown amount of time (50 yrs? 1000 yrs?) after THAT. Since the episode is self-contained in the Delta quadrant, it does not have any storyline continuity repercussions, making it pretty easily moved around in the viewing order.
Initially, I placed "Living Witness" in its airdate order in 2374 for those reasons, but with Disco S3 taking place even further in the future, I decided to move it to circa 3074 as it works well as a nice re-visit to our friends on Voyager after watching Picard and before watching Disco S3. (I also felt that its themes laid nice groundwork for the themes of Discovery S3.)
Sidenote: overthinking this specific episode is what prompted me to create this methodology page in the first place.































































