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Kes is a fictional character played by Jennifer Lien on the American science fiction television show Star Trek: Voyager. The series follows the crew of the starship USS Voyager, stranded far from home and struggling to get back to Earth.
Kes was a female Ocampa who joined the USS Voyager after it was catapulted into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker's array. For over three years she became a valuable member of the crew; she served as a field medic, and was in charge of the airponics bay. She eventually left Voyager in order to explore her increasingly powerful mental abilities.
In 1994, Lien was cast as Kes on Star Trek: Voyager. Her character was an Ocampa, a species in the Star Trek universe that lives for only eight to nine years, who joins the starship's crew after it is stranded 70,000 light-years from Earth. [ 10 ]
Jennifer Lien played the fascinating Kes on "Star Trek Voyager," but due to extremely sad circumstances, she was written out of the show.
Jennifer Lien's departure from Star Trek: Voyager as Kes was influenced by creative dead ends and mental health issues. Kes's exit paved the way for Seven of Nine's introduction, which reshaped the dynamics of the show's cast.
Jennifer Lien departed Star Trek: Voyager in season 4, bringing Kes's story to an abrupt end, but one of her cast mates hailed Lien's talent.
In season six, long after her departure from Voyager, Kes returned, hell-bent on revenge for what she believed was Janeway and Voyager’s cruel abandonment of her. She was mad, and she wasn’t going to take it anymore!
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.
Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor. It aired from January 16, 1995, to May 23, 2001, on UPN, with 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth series in the Star Trek franchise, it served as the fourth after Star Trek: The Original Series.
In the pilot episode, the crew of the Voyager took on a pair of local aliens. There was the Talaxian chef Neelix (Ethan Phillips) and his Ocampa girlfriend Kes (Jennifer Lien). Neelix...