Jennifer Lien's exit came in season 4's "The Gift," after Kes' psychic abilities began spiraling out of control following an encounter with Species Threatening the very crewmates she had come to love, the Ocampa decides to leave Voyager, evaporating into pure energy and leaving Kes' fate somewhat ambiguous. She may not have been a fan favorite, but Kes' Star Trek: Voyager exit wasn't without controversy, as both viewers and fellow cast members had praised Lien's ability as an actress, if not necessarily the development of Kes as a character.
There are two main reasons Kes was written out of Star Trek: Voyager. Firstly, the writers recognized they'd dropped the ball with the character. Simultaneously, Star Trek: Voyager had designs to introduce a new main crew member - a female Borg-in-recovery by the name Seven of Nine.
With Lien's position in Star Trek: Voyager already under scrutiny and budgets not accommodating a new character without sacrificing another, the decision was taken to replace Jennifer Lien's Kes with Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine. Given how apologetically writers and producers have spoken about Kes' Star Trek: Voyager departure over the years, it's no surprise that the character was soon invited back for season 6's "Fury" episode.
In this time-twisting tale, an older Kes attacks Voyager for abandoning her, then travels back in time to prevent her younger self from ever joining its crew.
This was by far the most circulated rumor. Other fans said that when contract renewals came up and money had to be saved, she was fired instead of Garrett Wang. So, they kept him instead of Lien because of his higher profile.
A less circulated rumor claimed that Lien had actually been fired from Voyager because she had a drug problem. Only one of the rumors came close to the real reason that Lien left the show, according to authors Ben Robinson and Mark Wright.
Robinson and Wright spoke to each of the main cast members for the book except Lien. She stopped giving interviews after she retired from acting, which happened shortly after her exit from Voyager.
Each of her costars described Lien in the book as a talented actor who was able to access a deep well of emotion and bring that into her character effortlessly. They also said that the emotional well she was tapping from seemed to be filled with dark waters. Her costars, the writers and the producers got to see those dark waters in the rare scenes where her character, Kes, got upset or angry, they told Robinson and Wright.
It became apparent to her costars and the producers that she was struggling with mental health issues and possibly addiction, they said, and her personal issues started impacting her ability to truly show up for her performances.
She explained to her that the growth on her back was the sac where her child would grow. She revealed that she was going through the Elogium , a time of change, during which her body prepared for fertilization. Janeway tried to explain to her that Humans go through a similar process called puberty , but Kes was panicking because she was simply too young for the Elogium, as it usually happened between the ages of four and five and she wasn't even two years old yet.
As Janeway tried to console her, Kes pointed out that the Elogium only occurred once — and if she was ever going to have a child, it had to be now. This left Kes and Neelix with the tough decision of deciding whether to have a child. Neelix in particular was unsure whether he was ready to be a father, which in turn left Kes somewhat disappointed because she wanted to mate with him.
Even though Kes later decided to not conceive, The Doctor believed that the Elogium was a false alarm, probably set in motion by the swarm they encountered, and that she was still able to conceive again at the right age. VOY : " Elogium ". In , the Bothans attacked Voyager with a bio-electric field that caused the crew to experience hallucinations.
It put the crew under some kind of psychoactive trance which disabled the ship. Kes' telepathic abilities allow her to resist the Bothans and to restore the crew to normal. VOY : " Persistence of Vision ". Later that year, Voyager found a second Ocampa colony in a second array under the guidance of Suspiria , the Caretaker's female counterpart. These Ocampa had advanced telepathic abilities and their leader, Tanis , tutored her while secretly plotting with Suspiria to take Voyager.
When she demonstrated her new skills to Tuvok, she accidentally boiled the water in his body and he was severely injured. Nevertheless, he said she should continue her training under Tanis, who told Kes to join them. Tanis encouraged her to pursue destructive abilities, inducing her to incinerate the plants in hydroponics.
When Suspiria attacked the crew in revenge for the Caretaker's death, Kes attacked Tanis telepathically and Janeway deployed a non-lethal toxin to disable her. Being shown mercy caused Suspiria to leave with Tanis; his departure caused Kes' power to return to its previous level. She was disturbed by the harm she did with her enhanced abilities; Tuvok told her that she must learn to control, rather than fear, such impulses.
VOY : " Cold Fire ". Voyager passed through a divergence field that caused all sensor readings to double and every particle on the ship, except antimatter, to duplicate forming a second Voyager and crew. The field caused extensive damage to the first Voyager. Kes vanished in a mysterious void, Harry Kim was sucked out into space and Samantha Wildman 's baby died. Kes led Janeway back to the void to take her back to her ship. When the Vidiians attacked, they killed the duplicate Kes and they themselves were destroyed when the duplicate Voyager self-destructed, but not before Kim returned with Wildman's baby to the other Voyager.
VOY : " Deadlock ". Kes, along with the rest of the crew, was marooned on Hanon IV after the Kazon had captured the ship. She was captured by the primitive tribe on the planet who were amazed at her blond hair and light skin. Chakotay later rescued her. On a visit to the Nechani homeworld, Kes was struck by an energy burst that put her into a coma.
She had wandered into a sanctuary into which only monks were allowed. She was saved by Janeway, who went through a series of tests of faith.
VOY : " Sacred Ground ". One of the most troubling episodes in Kes' life occurred in , when her body was taken over by the Ilari Tieran. Although he found her physically weak, he discovered that he was able to put her budding psychokinetic abilities to dangerous uses and grew fond of her body. For the first few days, he concealed his presence and even ended Kes' relationship with Neelix. After killing the Autarch 's representative and Ensign Martin , he returned to Ilari and staged a coup , killing the ruling autarch.
During the next few days, Kes fought him mentally, causing increasingly erratic behavior. She even surfaced at one point, with the help of Tuvok, but she was unable to remove Tieran's influence.
As a civil war broke out on the planet, the crew of Voyager rescued Kes but failed to prevent Tieran from taking Ameron as a new host, although he was driven out of Ameron and destroyed a short time later.
Kes found the experience difficult to comprehend and blamed herself for the high death toll. It was clear that her time with Tieran had shaken her badly. VOY : " Warlord ". Possibly as a result of her experience with Tieran, Kes began to question her continued presence on Voyager. She chose not to restart her relationship with Neelix and began to pursue other relationships instead.
The first of these was with a Mikhal Traveler named Zahir. She fell in love with Zahir during a stay at one of their outposts , and seriously considered his offer to explore space with him rather than stay on Voyager.
Meanwhile, The Doctor, who was experimenting with his matrix, caused an evil side to emerge. He became jealous of her suitor, attacked Zahir, and kidnapped Kes. During their time together, Kes realized that the "dark Doctor" was not truly evil; despite his claims that all organics were pathetic, he seemed to care for Kes in a twisted manner. Despite this, when cornered by an away team searching for them, rather than be captured, the 'dark Doctor' jumped off a cliff with Kes. They were saved by the transporter beam as the dark subroutines in The Doctor's program finally collapsed, resulting in him being back to normal when he returned to Voyager.
Eventually, she decided to remain with her friends. VOY : " Darkling ". A few weeks later, Voyager entered the core space of the Borg and stumbled across the Borg-Species War. As a result of the telepathic nature of Species , Kes began to experience visions of the future, and later began to communicate with the race.
When they realized her nature, Species began reading Kes' memories. The communications ceased when the species retreated from the Delta Quadrant. VOY : " Scorpion ". Kes becomes non-corporeal. Only a few days later, Kes began to undergo a massive surge in her mental powers. Although it was theorized that the exposure to Species caused these changes, there was little evidence for this.
For whatever reason, Kes became telekinetic and was able to carry out delicate surgical procedures using only her mind. Unfortunately, she rapidly started to destabilize at the subatomic level and was causing massive damage to Voyager as a result. Taking a Class 2 shuttle , she left the ship to explore her new condition and, as she left the corporeal world behind, pushed Voyager out of Borg space, 9, light years closer to Earth , as a parting gift. VOY : " The Gift ". In the original sequence of events in , Voyager received a distress call from a small ship.
Sensors revealed that the ship had one Ocampan lifeform on board. It was an aged Kes, who requested to be beamed aboard Voyager. When Janeway questioned her motives, Kes responded by ramming Voyager with her ship and boarding the Starfleet vessel. In her old age, Kes had forgotten she had chosen to leave Voyager and thought the crew had abandoned her when she had become too troublesome.
Subsequently, she hunted down Voyager , seeking revenge. She made her way to engineering , using her powers to cause extensive damage along the way. When she reached engineering, Kes murdered B'Elanna Torres and used the warp core 's energy to enhance her powers and travel back to , shortly after Voyager had become trapped in the Delta Quadrant. She attempted to prevent her younger self from developing her powers, making a deal with the Vidiians to attack and capture the ship, while taking the younger Kes back to Ocampa.
This attempt was thwarted by Captain Janeway, who had been alerted to the possibility of time travel as Tuvok had been experiencing 'flash-forwards' due to exposure to tachyon particles caused by the presence of the future Kes, ranging from mentioning the Delta Flyer around four years before its construction or witnessing Naomi Wildman before her mother announced her pregnancy.
In a confrontation in the airoponics bay, Janeway was forced to kill the older Kes when she was knocked off-balance during a Vidiian attack. She and Tuvok subsequently explained the situation to Kes of the present, who recorded a hologram that would dissuade the Kes of from making the time jump. In the new version of , Kes once again assaulted the ship, but Janeway was able to divert the crew from Kes's path, minimizing the damage she inflicted on the ship.
When she reached engineering, she found the warp core off-line. A hologram that Kes had recorded of herself before leaving Voyager was activated. The holographic image reminded her that she was responsible for her own fate. Kes responded emotionally and ceased hostilities. Janeway offered her a place on the crew but she refused, opting instead to return to her homeworld. VOY : " Fury ". Tuvok and Chakotay were attacked by an alien while returning from an away mission.
After the two were beamed aboard, strange things started happening to the ship, with different crewmembers implicated as the culprits. Kes informed Janeway that she sensed an alien on board. Tuvok attempted a mind meld with her to help with her telepathic abilities in order to find the alien.
It ended in failure when both were disabled by an energy surge like the one that hit Tuvok and Chakotay although, this was later revealed to be a lie; in reality, Kes had been knocked out by Tuvok, who was possessed by an alien being at the time. VOY : " Cathexis ". Kes marvels at the Ocampan-accelerated growth rate of her plants in the airponics bay. Kes' native telepathic powers continued to grow during her time in space, and she received training from Tuvok to control her powers.
When Voyager encountered another group of Ocampa and the entity Suspiria , Kes' powers increased so fast that she began to lose control of them, incinerating the hydroponics bay and nearly killing Tuvok due to her new power of pyrokinesis. Fortunately, she saw how twisted these Ocampa had become and used her powers to fight them off.
With the escape of Suspiria, her powers returned to their normal levels. In an artificially-created hallucination, it was Kes who telepathically sensed that Janeway's spirit was still present on Voyager , but attempts by Tuvok and Kes to make contact with her failed. Janeway soon learned that she was simply being pursued by an alien who was trying to convince her that she was dead and wanted her energy to feed off.
VOY : " Coda ". At the end of the year during the battle with the Borg and Species , she could sense Species
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