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The U.S.S. Voyager and its crew
are on display in a Kyrian museum 700 years in the future, and
they are being blamed for a horrible civil war that nearly wiped
out the Kyrian race. Through inaccurate simulations, the crew is
shown as violent people who did not hesitate to destroy anything
or anyone standing in their way of getting home. Approached by
the Vaskan Ambassador for help in his fight against the Kyrian,
Janeway supposedly slaughtered millions of innocent people in
exchange for wormhole travel to the Alpha Quadrant.
The museum curator, Quarren,
works within the engineering simulation to access a data storage
device recently uncovered at one of the Kyrian ruins. When he
realizes it is a hologram, he activates the Doctor's program and
explains what has happened. The Doctor is distraught and refuses
to believe that 700 years have passed, but he soon sees the
Voyager artifacts in the museum and knows it must be true.
Appalled by the depiction of Janeway and the crew as cold,
heartless thugs, the Doctor tries desperately to describe
Voyager's side of the story. Although he explains that Janeway
had just negotiated a trade agreement with the Vaskan Ambassador
when they were attacked by the Kyrian, Quarren balks at the idea
that his people were the aggressors. When the Doctor describes
how Janeway and the crew only wanted to extricate themselves
from the war, his program is silenced.
After some time to think about what the Doctor has said, Quarren
allows him to create a simulation of his own. It shows that the
Kyrian leader, Tedran, invaded Voyager. Janeway explained that
they were trading with the Vaskans and nothing more, but Tedran
wouldn't stand down. It was the Vaskan Ambassador who killed
him, and the last thing the Doctor remembers is Kyrian ships
attacking Voyager. As he works to reactivate his medical
tricorder and offer proof of his re-creation, a group of angered
Vaskans breaks into the museum and begins destroying it.
When war between the two groups threatens to erupt again, the
Doctor believes it would be best if his program is decompiled.
Although he wanted to clear Voyager's name in history, it's not
worth causing more fighting. Years into the future, watching
another simulation, people see Quarren talk the Doctor into
giving his testimony of events. Because of that, the great war
was finally portrayed accurately, and harmony was restored.
After setting the record straight, the Doctor eventually boarded
a shuttle for the Alpha Quadrant to trace Voyager's path home.
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