Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
InStar Trek : Voyager , Kes ( Jennifer Lien ) brings a sense of joyousness and wonder to the USS Voyager ’s crew with her optimistic empathy , which her good episodes focus on . On Ocampan from the Delta Quadrant , Kes joins the bunch with Neelix ( Ethan Phillips ) , and together the yoke create an ebullient contrast to the merge Starfleet and Maquis crew stranded in the Delta Quadrant . While Neelix act upon on esprit de corps and food for thought , Kes becomes an empathetic voice of intellect , particularly for The Doctor ( Robert Picardo ) . Later episode see Kes develop her telepathic office under the tutelage of Lt . Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) , and break up with Neelix in a gravid turn of events for character development for both Neelix and Kes .
Kes is written out afterStar Trek : Voyagerseason 3 , so she never has a luck to reach her full voltage as a character . former news report hem in Kes ’s departure take the Ocampan was a unmanageable character to write for due to her short life and lack of ontogeny . More recently , executive manufacturer Jeri Taylor cited actressJennifer Lien ’s battle with mental healthas a major lend gene to writing Kes off ofVoyager . While Kes was n’t onVoyagervery long , she did feature in some episodes that featured her strength as a theatrical role .
In its seven seasons , Star Trek : Voyager introduced many young faces to the Trek universe . Here is a crack-up of the show ’s main mould and character .
6Season 2, Episode 4
“Elogium”
Kes ' relationship with Neelix is tested when a biological anomaly attach to the USS Voyager causes Kes to untimely enter the Ocampan variant of puberty , ring the elogium . The couplet must decide whether they will have a youngster , because Ocampan biological science dictate it must be now or never . It ’s an unusual sequence that sets the stage for the superfluity ofweird things onStar Trek : Voyager , but beyond that , its focus on Kes as a lineament play up her devotion to Neelix as a collaborator , which plays out over the course ofVoyager ’s first few seasons as Kes create other friendship , and assess them just as much .
5Season 1, Episode 1
“Caretaker”
Star Trek : Voyager ’s premiere takes metre to shew the Ocampa as a newStar Trekalien high society onVoyager , as well as Kes ' place within Ocampan society . Kes is introduced as one of the rare Ocampa who wants to search beyond the Caretaker ’s underground metropolis and believes that they can outlast without the Caretaker , despite the dangers above , like the violent Kazon and the desiccated landscape painting itself . Between Kes ’s teen wanderlust , and the avail Kes and boyfriend Neelix can add to Voyager ’s gang as guides , it ’s no surprisal Kes leaves her domicile to spend her short life among the stars .
4Season 6, Episode 23
“Fury”
An aged Kes returns to Voyager with a vengeance , believing that she was abandoned instead of leaving to formulate her own path three years prior . The intervening twelvemonth have n’t been kind , so Kes prison term travel back toStar Trek : Voyagerseason 1to convert her younger self to return to the Ocampa homeworld , where she will never have to see about her power . It ’s the younger Kes , however , who remind the elder that she join the crew of her own free will , and trulywantsto search space and the potential of her telepathic powers . It ’s a great reminder ofthe optimism that characterized Kesearly on , as her vernal outlook intervenes with her time to come .
" Fury " marks the last time Kes is understand in anyStar Trekepisode .
3Season 4, Episode 2
“The Gift”
Kes ’s farewell episode comes early inStar Trek : Voyagerseason 4 , and featuresKes ’s telepathic Ocampa index , which now let in psychokinesis , and are growing stronger at an alarming pace . Kes ’s ability to see and keep in line affair beyond the subatomic stratum distresses both her mentor Tuvok and old-fashioned - boyfriend Neelix , since her lack of controller endangers the structure of Voyager itself and its crew . Rather than put others in danger , Kes elect to leave behind Voyagerto discover what she is capable of on her own , and leaves them with the titular parting talent : 9.5 thousand light years shave off their journey home .
2Season 2, Episode 10
“Cold Fire”
When Voyager mistrust another Caretaker might be able-bodied to post them home , they discover an Ocampa dependency led by the long - endure Tanis ( Gary Graham ) . Kes is eager to teach from Tanis , who explicate the secret to unlocking Kes ’s telepathic power lies beyondVulcan mentor Lt . Tuvok’sstrict exercise , in the " cold-blooded fire " of everlasting emotion , but his object lesson prove dangerous when Kes embraces them . There ’s a disconsolate implication thatKes could be a genuine scourge if she were to go rogue , but Kes ’s dependable nature prevail in the mercifulness shown to Suspiria , the revengeful Caretaker mate overseeing these Ocampa .
1Season 3, Episode 21
“Before & After”
Kes begins the instalment on her deathbed , as a grandmother infected by chroniton radiation , with no memory of her life sentence , until she ’s jolt backwards in time . With each step back through her personal story , Kes takes her computer memory of the future with her into the past , which help the Doctor piece together the treatment that redeem her aliveness . It ’s a cracking sci - fi premise with Kes ’s brief lifespan increase the stakes , and her wondering determination crusade the plot frontward , and the glimpse of Kes ’s potential fellowship withLt . Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill)in the give up future puts an interesting twist on their friendship as it stand up inVoyagerseason 3 .
Voyager ’s year - long conflict with the Krenim that Kes in brief experiences eventually hap inStar Trek : Voyagerseason 4 , episodes 8 & 9 , " Year of Hell " .
Kes may not have feature in many episode ofStar Trek : Voyager , thanks to her time on the series being cut short , but the best Kes episodes still showcased her inherent goodness as a irrefutable trait , rather than pure naïveté . With her open heart and quick willingness to consider in the best of others , Kes ’s best episodes show how Kes provides a much - postulate affirmative perspective to Voyager ’s bunch at a clock time when they could have find themselves hopeless , strand in the Delta Quadrant without an easy way back home .
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