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Kes is a fictional character played by Jennifer Lien on the American science fiction television show Star Trek: Voyager . She is a member of a telepathic alien species known as the Ocampa who have latent psychic abilities and a life span of only nine years. Joining the starship USS Voyager 's crew in the pilot episode " Caretaker ", she opens a hydroponics garden and works as the medical assistant to a hologram known as the Doctor . Her storylines focus on encouraging the Doctor to develop his humanity and dealing with her Talaxian boyfriend Neelix 's jealousy. She also seeks to expand upon her mental capabilities, leaving in the fourth season after her powers threaten to destroy the ship. She reappears in a season six episode and features in Star Trek: Voyager novels and short stories .

Voyager ' s creators Rick Berman , Michael Piller , and Jeri Taylor designed Kes to be a rapidly-aging character who would provide audiences with a different perspective on time. Although Kes is portrayed as fragile and innocent, she is also shown as having a hidden strength and maturity. Voyager ' s producers reluctantly fired Lien after her personal issues affected her reliability on set. At the time, this was not openly discussed and various other reasons were attributed to her departure; these ranged from Lien voluntarily leaving to pursue other roles to her being removed to make room for Jeri Ryan 's introduction as Seven of Nine .

Some critics praised Lien's removal from Voyager , criticizing Kes as boring and without a clear purpose, while others were more disappointed by this casting change. Kes's age was discussed by reviewers who felt she was too young to be dating Neelix. Her return in the season six episode " Fury " was criticized as one of the worst moments in the Star Trek franchise. Academics have analyzed Kes based on her representation of femininity, particularly in the context of the 1990s , as well as the development of her mental abilities.

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• Kes brings joy and optimism to the crew of the USS Voyager, showcasing her empathetic nature and strength as a character.
• Kes faces difficult decisions and personal growth throughout the series, including her relationship with Neelix and the development of her telepathic powers.
• Despite her short time on Voyager, Kes leaves a lasting impact, providing an optimistic perspective and reminding the crew of the potential of exploration and unity.

In Star Trek: Voyager , Kes (Jennifer Lien) brings a sense of joy and wonder to the USS Voyager's crew with her optimistic empathy, which her best episodes focus on. On Ocampan from the Delta Quadrant, Kes joins the crew with Neelix (Ethan Phillips), and together the pair create an ebullient contrast to the combined Starfleet and Maquis crew stranded in the Delta Quadrant. While Neelix works on morale and food, Kes becomes an empathetic voice of reason, particularly for The Doctor (Robert Picardo). Later episodes see Kes develop her telepathic powers under the tutelage of Lt. Tuvok (Tim Russ), and break up with Neelix in a great turn for character development for both Neelix and Kes.

Kes is written out after Star Trek: Voyager season 3 , so she never has a chance to reach her full potential as a character. Early reports surrounding Kes's departure claimed the Ocampan was a difficult character to write for due to her short lifespan and lack of development. More recently, executive producer Jeri Taylor cited actress Jennifer Lien's struggles with mental health as a major contributing factor to writing Kes off of Voyager . While Kes wasn't on Voyager very long, she did feature in some episodes that featured her strength as a character.

In its seven seasons, Star Trek: Voyager introduced many new faces to the Trek universe. Here is a breakdown of the show's main cast and characters.

6 Season 2, Episode 4

"elogium".

Kes' relationship with Neelix is tested when a biological anomaly attached to the USS Voyager causes Kes to prematurely enter the Ocampan form of puberty, called the elogium. The couple must decide whether they will have a child, because Ocampan biology dictates it must be now or never. It's an unusual episode that sets the stage for the plethora of weird things on Star Trek: Voyager , but beyond that, its focus on Kes as a character highlights her devotion to Neelix as a partner, which plays out over the course of Voyager 's first few seasons as Kes creates other friendships, and values them just as much.

5 Season 1, Episode 1

"caretaker".

Star Trek: Voyager 's premiere takes time to establish the Ocampa as a new Star Trek alien society on Voyager , as well as Kes' place within Ocampan society. Kes is introduced as one of the rare Ocampa who wants to explore beyond the Caretaker's underground city and believes that they can survive without the Caretaker, despite the dangers above, like the violent Kazon and the arid landscape itself. Between Kes's adolescent wanderlust, and the help Kes and boyfriend Neelix can contribute to Voyager's crew as guides, it's no surprise Kes leaves her home to spend her short life among the stars.

4 Season 6, Episode 23

"fury".

An aged Kes returns to Voyager with a vengeance, believing that she was abandoned instead of leaving to forge her own path three years prior. The intervening years haven't been kind, so Kes time travels back to Star Trek: Voyager season 1 to convince her younger self to return to the Ocampa homeworld, where she will never have to learn about her power. It's the younger Kes, however, who reminds the elder that she joined the crew of her own free will, and truly wants to explore space and the potential of her telepathic powers. It's a great reminder of the optimism that characterized Kes early on, as her youthful outlook intervenes with her future.

"Fury" marks the last time Kes is seen in any Star Trek episode.

3 Season 4, Episode 2

"the gift".

Kes's farewell episode comes early in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, and features Kes's telepathic Ocampa powers , which now include psychokinesis, and are growing stronger at an alarming rate. Kes's ability to see and manipulate matter beyond the subatomic level distresses both her mentor Tuvok and ex-boyfriend Neelix, since her lack of control endangers the structure of Voyager itself and its crew. Rather than put others in danger, Kes elects to leave Voyager to discover what she is capable of on her own, and leaves them with the titular parting gift: 9.5 thousand light years shaved off their journey home.

2 Season 2, Episode 10

"cold fire".

When Voyager suspects another Caretaker might be able to send them home, they discover an Ocampa colony led by the long-lived Tanis (Gary Graham). Kes is eager to learn from Tanis, who explains the secret to unlocking Kes's telepathic power lies beyond Vulcan mentor Lt. Tuvok's strict exercises, in the "cold fire" of pure emotion, but his lessons prove dangerous when Kes embraces them. There's a dark implication that Kes could be a real threat if she were to go rogue , but Kes's true nature prevails in the mercy shown to Suspiria, the vengeful Caretaker mate overseeing these Ocampa.

1 Season 3, Episode 21

"before & after".

Kes begins the episode on her deathbed, as a grandmother infected by chroniton radiation, with no memory of her life, until she's jolted backwards in time. With each step back through her personal history, Kes takes her memories of the future with her into the past, which helps the Doctor piece together the treatment that saves her life. It's a neat sci-fi premise with Kes's brief lifespan increasing the stakes, and her inquisitive determination pushing the plot forward, and the glimpse of Kes's potential family with Lt. Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) in the abandoned future puts an interesting twist on their friendship as it stands in Voyager season 3.

Voyager's year-long battle with the Krenim that Kes briefly experiences eventually happens in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, episodes 8 & 9, "Year of Hell".

Kes may not have featured in many episodes of Star Trek: Voyager , thanks to her time on the series being cut short, but the best Kes episodes still showcased her inherent goodness as a positive trait, rather than pure naïveté. With her open heart and ready willingness to believe in the best of others, Kes's best episodes show how Kes provides a much-needed optimistic perspective to Voyager's crew at a time when they could have found themselves hopeless, stranded in the Delta Quadrant without an easy way back home.

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Kes has already begun to develop her abilities, pursuing a full-fledged medical training course with the EMH Doctor and studying Vulcan mental disciplines with Tuvok. She has already led the ship into a disappointing rendezvous with the "female Caretaker" Susporia and a renegade Ocampa colony of advanced yet malevolent brethren, who almost allowed her to lose control of her new powers and kill her Vulcan friend. Kes' medical training has advanced so far that she can now handle away team medical duties, a welcome relief for the holographic doctor. She also helps Neelix in the kitchen and handles the airponics bay gardening.

She had first met Neelix when he stole water from the Kazon-Ogla to bring to her, and now absolutely adores him, standing by in his times of crisis; while doing all she could to discourage his jealous streak she was baffled when he and his perceived rival Paris came back old pals from birthing a reptilloid infant, and was even fearful to tell him that she and the Doctor were married in his holo-program malfunction. She has indeed developed a close friendship with the Doctor, whose medical teaching is repaid in a way by her encouragement on the road to his increasingly human programming - including hints about bedside manner, raising his level of respect by the rest of the crew, and a joint effort with Paris to get him and Vidiian Dr. Danara Pel's hologram together for a date.

Kes faces the greatest crisis of her young life when she became prematurely pregnant with the elogium due to the electrophoretic activity of nearby space-dwelling creatures and confronted with Neelix the emotional roller-coaster of whether or not to conceive a child at her young age. She opted not to, but the absence of the creatures and remission of the elogium effects made it a moot point; she should be fine at the right time. She would have chosen her father to perform her rolisisin pre-mating ritual had she been home for it; her mother may not be alive, since she is unmentioned.

Our "youngest" crew member, aside from Samantha Wildman's baby, continues to make incredible growth and contributions to this crew as she nears her third Ocampan birthday. I do not know how we could have survived without advanced medical skills if not for her independent and quick-witted actions during the Swarm attack, when she initialized and grafted on more memory to our EMH when its memory database overloaded and began to degrade. It is too her humanity that she spoke out against fully blanking the Doctor's acquired memory and personality, and I understand she has more than risen to the challenge of aiding himin his newly mobile state. This is why, apart from the personal note, I felt the need to risk retrieving Kes from the Nechani.

Since her premature elogium, the past year has been nothing but an emotional rollercoaster for Kes as well, beginning with Neelix and Tuvok's freakish transporter merger into one new lifeform, dubbed Tuvix, and her disquiet with his residual attraction for her. Her reaction, along with many other factors, led to the decision I made at that time to try for the separation.

Closer to home, her body's possession by the Ilaran warlord Tiernan has affected her perception of Tuvok, the Doctor, and even Neelix, although it is to her credit that Kes' will and ethics fought through the abduction. Still, I note with some sadness that she and Neelix have embarked on a platonic relationship for now at her request; it is good to know, for instance, that he still prepares her favorite meal of Trellian crepes on Wednesdays. But I wish them well along whatever path they choose.

Kes has undergone a radical evolutionary process. Following contact with the species known only by their Borg designation as "8472", Kes began to exhibit extremely elevated serotonin levels. After running a micro-synaptic analysis, I found no way to slow the increase in telesynaptic activity. Kes continued to destabilize at the molecular level and eventually became a being seemingly comprised of pure energy. Kes left the starship Voyager at the time of her destabilization, but imparted a gift to the crew; she propelled us 9, 500 light years towards home, completely circumventing Borg space.

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On her deathbed, Kes relives her life, jumping backwards in spurts of time towards birth, gaining knowledge as to why as she goes. On her deathbed, Kes relives her life, jumping backwards in spurts of time towards birth, gaining knowledge as to why as she goes. On her deathbed, Kes relives her life, jumping backwards in spurts of time towards birth, gaining knowledge as to why as she goes.

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• Trivia First appearance of Kes's longer hair style instead of the very short hair style from seasons 1, 2, and part of 3. Jennifer Lien , the actress who played Kes, was apparently sensitive to the make-up and adhesive used to apply her Ocampa ears. With the longer hairstyle, it was no longer necessary to apply the Ocampa ears each time she was filmed.
• Goofs The Doctor says there are no other Ocampans on board to compare with, although there are two others, Kes's daughter Linnis and her grandson Andrew; however, the Doctor was referring to the symptoms of the morilogium - which only affects Ocampa in the final stage of their lives - he had no other Ocampa to compare them with. Since Linnis and Andrew haven't reached that stage yet, the Doctor's statement is quite correct. Furthermore, Linnis and Andrew are both only part Ocampan, so their genetic structure is likely to be different anyway.

Neelix : So, I'm going to become a security officer. How about that?

Lieutenant Tuvok : Fortunately, Mr. Neelix, what Kes has been describing is merely one possible future. On each occasion that she jumped to a previous time, her subsequent actions most likely altered the future from that moment on.

Neelix : Good point, Tuvok. Maybe I'll turn out to be Chief Security Officer.

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Kes / ˈ k ɛ s / is a character in the television series Star Trek: Voyager , played by Jennifer Lien .

She was a regular for the first three seasons, leaving the show in the season four episode " The Gift ". She made one guest appearance two seasons later.

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Character biography [ ]

Kes is an Ocampa , a race native to the Delta Quadrant, with a lifespan of only 9 years. In the series pilot, Kes is taken on board the USS Voyager crew with her partner, Neelix , who was responsible for rescuing her from the Kazon . Kes had been a slave of the Kazon after her attempt to escape the tedium of normal Ocampan life. She had also hoped to develop her psionic powers, which her ancestors were rumored to have possessed with great proficiency. The Ocampa's psionic powers were relatively unknown by that time because of the Ocampa lifestyle, which depended solely on the Caretaker for provisions and protection.

During her time aboard Voyager , Kes develops a close friendship with the Doctor while working as his assistant medical technician. Kes receives medical training and helps the Doctor learn how to interact more easily with the crew. She also helps him develop social skills, such as helping him get a date with Vidiian Dr. Denara Pel (" Lifesigns "), and supporting him when he deals with the loss of his "daughter" in a holographic family simulation (" Real Life "). Kes also becomes a friend and student of Tuvok , who helps her develop and learn to control her psionic abilities.

In the episode " Warlord ", Kes treats an Ilaran man carrying the consciousness of former Ilaran tyrant Tieran. As he lies there, dying, Tieran transfers his mind into her for his own goal of re-conquering Ilara, prompting Kes to steal a shuttlecraft to go to Ilara. He makes full use of her mental abilities, but it becomes evident that Kes is battling with him internally for the control of her mind. Tieran is eventually purged from her mind, but Kes is left somewhat traumatized from the violent acts she participated in. Tuvok tells her that she will have to learn and adapt from the experience, and that she will never be quite the same again. It is during this episode that Kes calls off her long-term romantic relationship with Neelix, under the mind control of Tieran during an away mission claiming he is too jealous, suffocating, and protective. Upon resolution of the conflict Kes decides to not re-initiate their intimacy (the alien's original rationale was based on Kes' own subconscious), though the two do remain good friends thereafter.

In the episodes " Scorpion " and " The Gift ", Voyager becomes entangled in a major conflict between the Borg and the mysterious aliens referred to as ' Species 8472 '. Due in part to her exposure to the powerful telepathic influx of Species 8472, Kes begins to "evolve" into a different state of being. She can no longer remain with Voyager , but before leaving, she uses her newly acquired powers to hurl Voyager and crew safely beyond Borg space, 9,500 light-years closer to Earth .

Kes later revisits Voyager in a story involving time travel (" Fury "). At this point she appears much older, is much more powerful, and is vengeful towards the Voyager crew. She travels to the past and attempts to hand the past Voyager over to the Vidiians while she takes her past self home, but this attempt is thwarted. Using their new foreknowledge of these events, the present Janeway and Tuvok create a hologram of Kes at the time who reminds her future self about her affection for the crew and how much they had cared for her, thus showing Kes how irrational her hatred is. The episode ends with her taking her ship back to Ocampa.

Kes has psionic powers that primarily manifested as telepathy , allowing her to read minds and project her thoughts. When she encountered another group of Ocampans, her powers evolved quickly and she developed pyrokinesis and almost incinerated her friends with psychic fire. With help she was able to suppress her pyrokinetic abilities. Finally, Kes began to develop telekinesis and could move objects with her mind. As her powers evolved she began to lose physical form and was becoming a psychic entity, and she used her telekinetic powers to launch the Voyager lightyears closer to Earth before she became living energy.

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In the episode " Before and After ", Kes participates in Voyager's year-long battle with the Krenim , becoming infected with particles from a chronoton torpedo. She later marries Tom Paris , and they have a daughter Linnis (named after Kes' mother). Linnis is married to Harry Kim and they have a son named Andrew, grandson of Kes. At the beginning of the episode, Kes is nine years old and ready to accept her death at the normal age for Ocampans. The Doctor, however, is not, so he devises a bio-temporal chamber, which has the unintentional effect of reactivating chronotons dormant in Kes' body from her exposure to the chronoton torpedo several years earlier. This begins sending Kes on a backwards journey through her life. Kes becomes aware of what is happening, and once she has traveled back to the time corresponding to an earlier part of Voyager's conflict with the Krenim, she informs the Doctor in the past what is happening to her and relays the exact temporal frequency of the chronoton torpedo. This enables the Doctor to devise a treatment and restore Kes to normal temporal sync. It also renders the events of Kes' future, including her marriage to Tom Paris as well as her daughter Linnis, into an alternate timeline that never comes to pass. She is, however, still able to inform Captain Kathryn Janeway about the coming " Year of Hell ". It's left unexplained why Voyager' s crew is unaware of Kes' warning when they encounter the Krenim later in season 4, during the episodes of the same name (Season 4, episodes 8 and 9). However, the omission of her warning could have been due to Annorax's Temporal Alterations when Voyager reset the original timeline by destroying the Krenim vessel. Voyager was not attacked in the restored timeline; so the alternate reality when Kes got the warning wouldn't have taken place.

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Janeway presents Tuvok a birthday cake

In her ready room , Janeway is grilling Tuvok about a secret he has been keeping. She walks over to the replicator and produces a birthday cake as it turns out to be Tuvok's birthday. Tuvok reluctantly blows out the candle on the cake, claiming it was a " fire hazard ". Commander Chakotay calls Janeway to the bridge . The USS Voyager has received a distress call from a small ship . Sensors reveal the ship has one Ocampan lifeform on board. It is an aged Kes , now around six or seven years old and appearing frail and weak, asking for permission to beam aboard. When Captain Janeway questions her motives, Kes cuts the com channel. Immediately after, her ship is on a collision course with Voyager and just before it is destroyed, Kes manages to transport herself on board.

Act One [ ]

Kes makes her way to engineering

Furiously, she makes her way to engineering , giving off high levels of neurogenic energy that destroy the sections she is walking through. She does not respond to any hails from the captain and even force fields cannot hold her back.

Kes vanishes in the present...

All attempts by Ayala and a security guard to stop her fail and she finally reaches engineering , making her way to the warp core . While she is holding on to the core, she kills B'Elanna Torres with an energy pulse emitted from it. Holding on ever stronger to the warp core, she lights up and disappears. She somehow uses the warp core to travel back in time to 2371 , 56 days and 17 hours after Voyager had become trapped in the Delta Quadrant .

...and re-appears in the past

In 2371, there are now two Keses: the one that belongs to 2371 and the one that has traveled back in time to 2371. Materializing right next to the warp core, she transforms herself into a duplicate of the young Kes. The Torres of 2371 asks Kes if she would like to stay and observe a warp core assembly , but she tells the chief engineer she is needed in sickbay . Upon arriving there, Kes starts fiddling around with some of The Doctor 's medical instruments. The Doctor is annoying her with his questions about what name to pick for himself. Barely listening to him, she picks up a hypospray and rushes out of sickbay.

Kes takes on her former appearance

In the airponics bay , the real Kes who belongs to the timeline, is attacked from behind by the "old" Kes, sedated and hidden, so that there are not two Keses walking around the ship.

Act Two [ ]

" The Delta Flyer . "

In the mess hall , Tom Paris and Neelix are chatting about some unique names he could use for a cheeseburger he has made, when Kes walks in and asks Neelix for some coffee that she wants to bring for the captain. She is a bit grumpy and distanced, unable to laugh at Neelix's jokes as she used to. She grabs a canister with coffee and goes to the captain's ready room. Janeway and Chakotay are there discussing the Vidiians , with the captain and first officer discussing the plight of the imperiled species and the lengths they go to to harvest organs. Chakotay wonders what Humans would do if they were faced with similar circumstances. Kes arrives shortly after and she spills some coffee on the captain's desk, supposedly by accident, and when the captain is called to the bridge, Kes accesses Janeway's computer terminal. When Kes leaves the ready room, Tuvok, who is standing on the bridge at the science station with Janeway and Ensign Wildman , looks at her from afar as if he sensed something.

" The Delta what? "

Later, during a staff meeting in Voyager 's briefing room which is all about finding a way to evade the Vidiians and navigate the ship through a region of space densely packed with subspace vacuoles , Tuvok suggests taking the Delta Flyer with its advanced sensors to navigate through the region. This comes as a big surprise to everyone, because they have never heard of a Delta Flyer . Tuvok apologizes, believing that he must have been thinking of another starship .

" Planning on going somewhere? "

Paris finds Kes sitting in a shuttle programming a trajectory to Ocampa and asks her if she is homesick . She claims she's not. She's "studying" the helm configuration and asks Paris to teach her how to fly. He agrees to give her some tutorials in the holodeck in an old Class 1 shuttle .

" Identify yourself! " " It's me Tuvok, Naomi Wildman. "

While entering a turbolift Tuvok sees Naomi Wildman . He follows the hallucination to Cargo Bay 2 where he sees the alcoves with all the rescued former Borg, Azan , Rebi , and Seven of Nine , regenerating. Then he snaps back to reality when Lieutenant Carey , working at a console, asks him if he is all right.

Kes finds a message from Neelix

Kes walks into her quarters to find that Neelix has prepared one of her favorite meals for her, leaving her a message that says how much he misses her. Suddenly, she becomes irrationally angry and furious, throwing everything off the table and yelling at the computer to turn off the music. She then asks it to open an encrypted channel and direct the signal to the Vidiians whom she informs about Captain Janeway's plan to evade their vessels. She offers to send them tactical data on shields , weapons and anything else they need to take Voyager . In return, she asks for safe passage back to Ocampa for herself and one other person. When asked by the Vidiian why she is abandoning her crew, she coldly states that they are not her crew, for they abandoned her long ago.

Act Three [ ]

Kes is back in airponics checking up on her younger self whom she apparently has hidden in one of the drawers. After finding everything okay she heads over to a computer console to ascertain Voyager 's tactical information where she bypasses the command authorization by using her powers.

" It does feel like we're sneaking through a graveyard at midnight. "

In the meantime, Tuvok discusses his hallucinations with the captain in her quarters . He informs her of having run into a half- Human , half- Ktarian girl named Naomi Wildman in the turbolift and also of his encounter with a woman and several children with cybernetic implants. He cannot explain what is happening to him. Even though he has had hallucinations before, it has always been in the context of deep meditation . However, these are specific, evoking a sense of anticipation. He is concerned because Vulcans generally do not have premonitions. Janeway instructs the computer to run a continuous scan around Tuvok so they can monitor what is happening to him next time he has another one of his visions.

The final premonition

Then Chakotay calls them to the bridge to inform them they have reached the subspace vacuoles. Voyager is programmed to fly at warp and make course corrections according to previously made scans of this region. This is going to take 3 hours 12 minutes and 11 seconds according to Tom Paris with 216 course changes. After the first course correction the captain leaves for sickbay to ask about Ensign Wildman . Then Tuvok has another hallucination. This time it is a sensor reading of a vessel on a collision course, which no one else is seeing. Tuvok asks to be relieved of duty.

The Doctor, albeit reluctantly because of doctor-patient confidentiality, confirms Ensign Wildman's pregnancy which is producing a half-Ktarian female offspring, Janeway realizes that everything Tuvok said is true and that there is something very strange going on.

" Tachyons. "

Tuvok's hallucinations become stronger and more frequent until he finally breaks down in engineering and goes into synaptic shock. Examining the proximity scan of Tuvok at the time where he broke down in engineering, Janeway discovers a surge in tachyon particles, indicating temporal distortions and thus probably time travel . While nervous about these findings and researching the occurrence of tachyon particles elsewhere on the ship, Voyager suddenly finds itself under attack by the Vidiians.

Act Four [ ]

Voyager breaks free

" Now one of you doesn't belong here, and I'm guessing it's you. "

The Vidiians keep matching Voyager 's shield frequencies. Then the Vidiian ship attaches itself to Voyager 's hull , trying to access the ship directly. Janeway asks for the neural agent The Doctor has been developing and asks him to release it in the sections where the Vidiians have cut a hole through the hull, but much to their horror they find that environmental controls are not responding; they have been locked out of that system, all command relays have been fused and the Vidiians are about to board Voyager . Janeway realizes that the Vidiians knew where to find them, along with their shield frequencies and which systems to target.

Janeway, out of options, is forced to kill Kes

An electromagnetic fluctuation indicative of a transmission is detected in the airponics bay. Bioreadings pick up two Keses. Janeway makes her way down there, where Kes is about to unsuccessfully initiate a site-to-site transport. Janeway confronts her in the airponics bay. When asked why she is helping the Vidiians, Kes tells her that she is from a future she is hoping to change, and uses her telekinetic powers to throw Janeway around the bay and out of her way. She says that she won't let them hurt her again by taking her from Ocampa, her home. She claims to have been a prisoner on this ship, a child who was corrupted by their ideas of exploration and discovery. She tells her that in three years she will leave Voyager in search of higher things because Janeway encouraged her to develop her mental abilities; something she was not ready for. She couldn't control what she found. It scared her, and she felt she had nowhere to go. She thought of returning home to Ocampa, but knew that the people on her home world would be frightened by her mental abilities and not accept her. But they will accept the younger Kes, the one she is holding and wanting to transport over to the Vidiian ship.

The mask falls off

All attempts by Janeway to make her understand reason fail, and Kes becomes more and more furious until finally Janeway has no choice but to set her phaser to kill Kes. Meanwhile, Chakotay, utilitzing decisive and creative tactics, manages to break Voyager free of the Vidiian ship and drive them off.

Act Five [ ]

Janeway contemplates what is to come

Later, in engineering, Tuvok, who is standing in front of the warp core, says that Kes was standing exactly here during his last premonition, where she appeared older, her face tired. They note that tachyons are concentrated in the warp core and that it was possible that she used the core to travel back in time. If that is true, then she will need it again but unfortunately, they don't know when that will be and yet they have to be ready for it.

The present arrives again

When young Kes regains consciousness, Captain Janeway tells her in confidence what has happened and that they will need her help to prevent it from happening again.

" I'd almost forgotten. "

Five years later, Voyager receives a distress call from a small ship. Sensors reveal the ship has one Ocampan lifeform on board. It is an aged Kes, who appears frail and weak, asking for permission to beam aboard. When she hears that, Janeway, who admits she had almost forgotten the incident, is immediately alerted and knows what to do. She raises shields and goes to red alert and orders the emergency evacuation of deck eleven. Kes' ship is on a collision course with Voyager and just before it crashes, Kes beams herself on board. Furious, she makes her way to engineering, giving off high levels of neurogenic energy that destroy the sections of the corridor she is walking through. She does not respond to any hails and even force fields cannot hold her back. On the bridge, Janeway orders the shutdown of the warp core and signals to Tuvok to be ready and follow her.

" Try to remember who you were; try to remember me. "

In engineering, Janeway plays the hologram Kes had recorded before leaving Voyager . In that, the holographic recording of Kes reminds her older self that no one forced her to do anything; that she was the one who made the decision to leave Ocampa and also the one who made the decision to leave Voyager . She asks her not to take revenge and just find another way home with the captain's help. She asks her to try and remember who she used to be. Janeway walks in, telling her what will happen if she crosses the timeline again. She offers her to stay with them on Voyager but Kes says that she cannot, for she does not belong there anymore and needs to be with her own people. Suddenly she smiles, saying that she now remembers the holo-recording she made years ago to remind herself of who she is. Janeway asks her whether it really matters which Kes goes home.

Kes's final farewell

In the transporter room , the captain and Neelix are sending Kes off. Neelix hands her a few snacks of leola root for the journey home and looks at her in reminiscence. When she asks him if he sees anyone he knows with a small smile, as she had changed a lot both inside and out, he replies that he only sees her. After Kes is beamed back to her vessel, Tuvok asks what they should tell the others. Janeway says to simply tell them that a friend got lost and they helped her find her way. With these words Janeway and Tuvok leave the transporter room and Kes' ship sets a course for home.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" We've known each other for how long? " " Approximately twenty years. " " We've served on three starships together. I was present at your daughter's kolinahr . I consider you one of my closest friends. " " And I regard you with the same esteem. " " I've always been honest with you, but you've been keeping something from me. " " I don't know what you mean. " " Don't you? It took exhaustive research, sifting through teraquads of data, separating fact from rumor, but eventually I arrived at the truth. " " Captain? " (Janeway turns to her replicator and replicates a small cake with a lit candle.) " Happy birthday. "

" It was a fire hazard. "

" Lieutenant Torres is dead. Kes has vanished. "

" Identify yourself. " " It's me, Tuvok. Naomi Wildman. "

" State your intentions! "

" We'd need a more accurate scan of the region. If we even graze one of those vacuoles... " " We could send a shuttle ahead. " " The Delta Flyer. Its sensors are more advanced. " " The Delta what? " " Forgive me. I must have been thinking of a different ship. "

" One down, 215 to go. "

" What do you remember? " " I was in airponics, and then I felt dizzy, and then I was watching myself. " " Yourself? " " Computer, deactivate EMH. "

" They're trying to lock on us with a tractor beam. " " Reverse thrusters, full power! " " That'll tear the hull apart. " " Then tear it apart! "

" Only you. "

" What? " " Just looking. " " See anyone you know? " " Only you. "

" Home for me means a penal colony. Out here, I get to fly a state-of-the-art ship and there's no admirals in sight. "

" Remember me? The innocent child you're here to save? You blame Captain Janeway, but the choice was yours. You made the decision to leave Ocampa, and you made the decision to leave Voyager . If you're watching me now, you've come back to take back revenge on the people who cared about you. That's not who you are, and that's not who I am. Don't do this. Find another way home. Captain Janeway will help you if you give her a chance. Try to remember who you were. Try to remember me. "

" Does it really matter which Kes goes home? "

" I remember. " " What? What do you remember? " " The holo-recording, I remember making it. You asked me to help you, to help myself. You wanted me to remember who I was. These years were so filled with confusion...and anger. I buried the memory. I'd almost forgotten. " " Does it really matter which Kes goes home? "

" Captain. "

" Goodbye, Kes. " " Captain. "

" What should we tell the others? " " A friend got lost. We helped her find her way. "

Background information [ ]

Production [ ].

• Prior to the making of this episode, Chakotay actor Robert Beltran said that he "certainly hoped" there would be a forthcoming episode featuring Kes. [1] (X)
• The writing of this episode began with Rick Berman deciding he wanted the character of Kes to return. The story of "Fury" was not yet written, however, when Kes actress Jennifer Lien accepted an invitation, from Berman, to make a return in the episode. As part of persuading Lien to make the proposed comeback, the creative staff " convinced her it was a terrific story, and thus a good reason to bring Kes back, " stated Berman, who was given on-screen credit for having co-written the story, along with Brannon Braga . " [Berman] put it in the writing staff's hands to come up with an idea for her to come back. Brannon spearheaded the story, " explained Bryan Fuller , who co-wrote the installment's script with Michael Taylor . Fuller's involvement in this episode was somewhat ironic, as he had started his work on the series by firstly suggesting the method in which Kes would leave the show, in the fourth season outing " The Gift ". ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 32)
• The final draft of this episode's script was issued on 21 January 2000 .
• The cockpit of Kes' ship as she enters Voyager is a reuse of the cockpit of the timeship Aeon that Captain Braxton uses in the third season episode " Future's End " and the interior of Kovin's ship in " Retrospect ".
• The success of this episode depended on its visual effects. The outing tasked Director John Bruno and the visual effects crew, operating under Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry , to depict explosions, put numerous versions of Kes on-screen simultaneously, and portray an enemy Vidiian ship. Visual Effects Supervisor Ronald B. Moore enjoyed the collaboration with John Bruno, as the two had worked together before and because Moore respected Bruno's knowledge of effects. Recalled Moore, " We did a lot of greenscreen work and split-screen; it was pretty complex. We didn't get the entire script until after we'd started production. We didn't have quite a chance to plan this as far as we should. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 32) Regarding the extent of the visual effects, Moore noted, " We did stuff beyond what we have done before. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 33)

Continuity [ ]

• No stardate is given for the scenes set in the past, although the computer states that Voyager has been in the Delta Quadrant "fifty six days, seventeen hours". The Vidiians are a known threat, dating the scenes after the events of " Phage " which take place on stardate 48532. The Doctor says he is "considering the name Schweitzer", which he takes in " Heroes and Demons " (the events of which occur over the course of stardate 48693 to 48710), but ultimately decides not to adopt permanently at the end of that episode due to the "painful" association of that name - suggesting that the scenes are dated before 48693. The Doctor first showed an interest in taking a name at the end of " Eye of the Needle ", which occurred on stardate 48579, indicating this occurs after those events. This places the episode somewhere in the middle of the first season.
• Kes last appeared in the fourth-season episode " The Gift ", after being a regular character since the series premiere " Caretaker ".
• This episode marks the final appearances of Kes (Jennifer Lien), Ensign Samantha Wildman ( Nancy Hower ), and the Vidiians on the series.
• Kes' final appearance in this episode also marks the final appearance of any member of the Ocampa species in the series.
• This is the only episode in which any direct, face-to-face interaction occurs between Seven of Nine and Kes, when Seven tells Kes to "State your intentions." However, they were present on the bridge together in " Scorpion, Part II " and Kes helped treat Seven in sickbay in " The Gift ".
• This episode is the third and final episode to include the complete cast of the show from all seasons. The previous two episodes to do this were " Scorpion, Part II " and " The Gift ".
• This episode contains the last mention of Deep Space 9 to air on Star Trek: Voyager . However, it occurs in a scene set in 2371. This makes a line from the earlier episode " Pathfinder " the last time in the series chronology that the station is mentioned on screen.
• In a scene set in 2376, Janeway mentions it isn't long before Tuvok hits "the big three digits", a statement that goes against everything that had been established about Tuvok's age prior to this episode. Most notably, in the third-season episode " Flashback " Tuvok claimed he "was twenty nine years old" at a point in time "approximately eighty years ago", suggesting he was at least 108 at the time.
• This episode establishes the warp manoeuvring maxim " Faster than light, no left or right ". This would seem to be supported in the seventh-season episode " Drive " in which the alien Irina says "warp's fine if you like going fast in a straight line."
• The Doctor states to Janeway that the length of Ensign Wildman's pregnancy should be "nearly doubled" by the genetic contribution of the baby's Ktarian father. As such, this episode finally explains why she didn't give birth until the late second-season episode " Deadlock ", given the moment of conception would have been before Voyager 's arrival in the Delta Quadrant over a year earlier.
• Chakotay says that the Vidiians "were a lot like us before the Phage." In " Phage ", a Vidiian claims that "before the phage began, we were known as educators and explorers, a people whose greatest achievements were artistic."
• In 2371, Tuvok says he's "had hallucinations before, but only while in a state of deep meditation." He would (chronologically) later hallucinate in " Persistence of Vision " as a result of alien influence, and in " Flashback " due to a resurgence of suppressed memories caused by a viral infection.
• The appearance of a holographic Kes in Engineering suggests that holoemitters have been installed there. This was done before in " Persistence of Vision " to allow The Doctor to appear throughout the ship, but malfunctions caused this effort to be abandoned. This episode would suggest that the issue was fixed.
• Tuvok mistakenly has his commander pip in the past. He did not earn this promotion until the fourth season episode " Revulsion ". Although this is technically a continuity error, it is actually consistent as Tuvok was mistakenly shown wearing a commander's pip throughout the first half of season one.
• During the battle with the Vidiians, Kim warns that reversing thrusters at full power could tear the hull apart, and Chakotay responds, " Then tear it apart! " This is similar to an exchange between Lojur and Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , where the latter orders the former, " Fly her apart, then! " while racing to assist the USS Enterprise -A at Khitomer .
• The Doctor's quest to find a name is referenced in this episode in a scene set in 2371, when he tells Kes of some names he has been considering for himself, one of which, "Schweitzer", he chooses to go by temporarily in " Heroes and Demons ".
• This episode chronologically depicts the first appearance of the Class 2 shuttle , which did not appear in the series until the second-season episode " Threshold ".
• When Paris discovers the future Kes aboard a Class 2 shuttle, she feigns interest in learning to fly a shuttle. This prompts Paris to offer to teach her, saying "I could start you off in the holodeck, in an old class 1". This scene is a 'prequel' to the second-season episode " Parturition ", in which Paris does teach Kes how to pilot a class 1 shuttle in the holodeck.
• This is the only episode in which Azan and Rebi appear but Icheb and Mezoti do not.
• In the new 2376, Janeway tells Kes " three years ago , you traveled back in time." Kes did in fact travel back in time three years ago (along with the whole crew) in the third-season episode " Future's End ", but in this episode, Kes traveled five years back in time, not three, and it's likely Janeway made a mistake.
• The visual effect when Kes attacks Ayala and the other security guard in the corridor, as well as Seven and Torres in engineering, is similar to the effect from " Where No Man Has Gone Before " when Elizabeth Dehner and Gary Mitchell are first exposed to the effects of the galactic barrier. In both cases there is a brief flash of light accompanied by the color palette of the affected characters being inverted.
• Three photon torpedoes are used in this episode, one having previously been used in " Good Shepherd " (although in this episode, the depicted torpedoes are shown to have been used in the past). This brings the total number of torpedoes confirmed to have been used by Voyager over the course of the series to 66, a total which exceeds the supposedly irreplaceable complement of 38 that had been established by Chakotay in the first-season episode " The Cloud ".
• The scenes in the past reflect various character traits established at that time during Season 1, including Captain Janeway's hair bun, Neelix and Kes' romantic relationship, and the rude manner in which the crew treats the Doctor on apart of his being a hologram.

Reception [ ]

• Few people expected that, in this episode, Kes' return would be as radical as it turned it to be. ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 32)
• Bryan Fuller once commented that, owing to Brannon Braga's involvement in the writing of this episode, its story "came out quite nicely." Fuller also remarked about Kes' evolution as an Ocampan, " It was kind of fun that we decided to twist that. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 32)
• Ronald B. Moore was ecstatic about the footage of Voyager being wrecked by a Vidiian ship, commenting, " I was very, very happy with that. " ( Cinefantastique , Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 33)
• Cinefantastique (Vol. 33, No. 5, p. 38) gave this episode 3 and a half out of 4 stars.

Apocrypha [ ]

• In the novel Star Trek: Voyager - String Theory - Evolution , it is revealed that the Kes that appeared in this episode was technically not Kes, but was actually the result of Kes merging with another Ocampan who was undergoing a complex 'pregnancy' with a Nacene , with the Kes depicted here essentially being a manifestation of the darkness within Kes rather than Kes herself.

Production timeline [ ]

• Final draft script by Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor: 21 January 2000
• Additional revisions: 25 January 2000 , 27 January 2000 , 28 January 2000
• 12 January 2000 : Beat sheet of major story elements delivered to Moore.
• 13 January 2000 : First draft script delivered to Moore.
• 14 January 2000 : Episode pre-production meeting held.
• 21 January 2000 : Episode pre-production meeting held. Optical meeting held. Final draft of script delivered.
• 24 January 2000 : First (half) day of production.
• 26 January 2000 : Episode director John Bruno works on stage.
• 27 January 2000 : Optical meeting at 6:45 a.m. on the Voyager mess hall set. Moore submits revised episode budget.
• 28 January 2000 : Visual effects shoots on set. Braga and Moore on set.
• 31 January 2000 : One visual effect is shot on set.
• 2 February 2000 : Last full day of first unit, no visual effects work.
• Original airdate: 3 May 2000

Video and DVD releases [ ]

• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment ): Volume 6.12, 27 December 2000
• As part of the VOY Season 6 DVD collection

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

Also starring [ ]

• Robert Beltran as Chakotay
• Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres
• Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris
• Ethan Phillips as Neelix
• Robert Picardo as The Doctor
• Tim Russ as Tuvok
• Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
• Garrett Wang as Harry Kim

Also Starring [ ]

• Jennifer Lien as Kes

Guest Stars [ ]

• Nancy Hower as Samantha Wildman
• Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman
• Vaughn Armstrong as a Vidiian captain
• Josh Clark as Joe Carey

Co-Stars [ ]

• Kurt Wetherill as Azan
• Cody Wetherill as Rebi
• Tarik Ergin as Security Guard
• Majel Barrett as Computer Voice

Uncredited Co-Stars [ ]

• Andrew English as Voyager operations officer
• Caroline Gibson as Voyager operations officer
• Peter Harmyk as Thompson
• Grace Harrell as Voyager operations officer
• Tina Kotrich as Voyager operations officer
• Joyce Lasley as Lydia Anderson
• Unknown performers as two Vidiian boarding party members

Stunt Double [ ]

• Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Kate Mulgrew

Stand-ins [ ]

• Amy Kate Connolly – photo double for Jennifer Lien
• Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan

References [ ]

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External links [ ]

• "Fury" at StarTrek.com
• " Fury " at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• " Fury " at Wikipedia
• " Fury " at the Internet Movie Database
• 2 ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)