Neelix is the only one of them thats actually LIVED an atrocity. the others dismiss remembering so easily but not him, he knows the importance of learning from past mistakes.

A lot of fans may have despised Neelix, but this is one of his shining moments.

The Inner Light's sadistic evil twin brother.

A powerful episode.

this hits home for alot of people, especially war vets because it's absolutely true, words alone can't tell the whole story, but once you know the truth behind them, it's your truth.

I understand the pain of forced trauma, but I also understand the need to let people experience the memories themselves. So many people either try to forget, deny, justify, or invent a false version of atrocities. Reliving the memories yourself makes you know the actual truth. Of course, there are many species that would enjoy the violence or see the victims as weaklings. So I do understand the reason why forced memories would often produce the opposite effect. I would advocate modifying the monument so that one can access the memories voluntarily without any forced trauma. Though Janeway's option was good enough: Deploying a warning beacon to caution other crews of what they might experience.

This is top tier world-building.

After watching jetrel, one admires Neelix in this negotiation.

Great episode.

One of very few times Neelix and Janeway did something admirable.

Voyager had some deep moments.

It’s one thing to have a memorial, that is good, to remember. It is another thing to impose trauma upon another, to thrust a generations woes upon the next in a way they cannot handle and leaves them just as scarred as the last, shame on those who built this thing.

And this is why you never, ever, tear down statues.

Episode 14 Season 5 : Memorial In case anyone wants to watch the whole episode.

It still pains me that they were finally able to do something with Neelix near the end of Voyager. They couldn't seem to get him right in the first few seasons.

“Kathryn”???????????

Great episode with back and forth valid moral points. My opinion: Forcing a trauma onto innocent people is assault, and it doesn't matter the reason why. I'm with Chakotay. Deactivate it, and let it stand. Maybe add an addendum that if you replace the energy source, you may relive the memories as the creators intended.

History is there not for you to change or destroy, but to learn from. If you are offended by history, even better, you then will never make the same mistake. One cannot "cherry-pick" history, to do so dishonors the sacrifices and accomplishments of our ancestors. We are the culmination of all that came before. Every action, every thought made by every person has led to this exact point in time, and your life will influence the next generation, and so on.

Mass Effect fans:Wow this technology is so coool Star Trek Fans:Not again.... (Prothean beacons)

1:01 I find it a great insult that such merits come from chekotay. Neelix and chekotay should have been the voices for the memory.

The Native Americans were massacred by invaders and covered up the entire crime by forgetting what happened. I might not be the most beloved and respected Choctaw, at least Neelix defended his position and the memories of what happened. The Massacre of the Nueces River, where Confederate soldiers slaughtered German Unionists fleeing to Mexico in cold blood for not being conscripted into the Confederacy. “””” After the cessation of hostilities in 1865, Germans emerged as some of the most exuberant supporters of the United States' victory.[37] The German-language Treue der Union Monument (loyalty to the Union), in Comfort, Texas, was dedicated on August 10, 1866, to commemorate those who died at the 1862 Nueces massacre. Except for those drowned in the Rio Grande, the remains of the deceased are buried at the monument's site.[38] It was the only Unionist monument dedicated by locals in the territory formerly controlled by the Confederacy.[37]””””

The inscription on this memorial should be on placards at every Holocaust and other genocide related memorials and museums.

1:56 No. We dont lesrn by denying what happened. What happened was horrible. It was wrong. It shouldnt have happeend. Denying it is to condine it. We look into the face of evil not in defiance of evil, but in contemplation and so we may recognise evil.

Ohht

Star trek making modern arguments before modern arguments even appeared. There's a reason confederate memorials exist, it's about remembering the shit they did so we dont repeat it.

If the massacred colonists were Palestine Voyager crew would No doubt be called anti Semitic It’s a shame people can watch this fiction and be moved. But not moved by actual suffering of the Palestinians.