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Introduced in Star Trek: Voyager ' s pilot episode "Caretaker", Kes is an Ocampa—a telepathic alien species with latent psychic abilities and a life span of nine years. [1] [2] She was born and raised on the Ocampa home world in an underground city, [3] which was constructed by an alien known as the Caretaker after he inadvertently destroyed the planet's atmosphere. [2]
Following the energy trail, the crew comes upon a space-station inhabited by Ocampa, who fire on the ship. Kes agrees to act as the crew's liaison to her people, and when the Ocampa leader, Tanis, boards Voyager, she assures him that the crew comes in peace. In a private meeting, Tanis tells Kes that the female Nacene, Suspiria, is nearby.
Jennifer Lien (right) with Voyager actresses Roxann Dawson (left) and Kate Mulgrew (1995) 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]
"Caretaker" was released on VHS tapes on April 4, 2000, and in both 2004 and 2017 as part of the Season 1 Voyager DVD set when the whole Voyager series was released. [ 41 ] The soundtrack, with works by Jay Chattaway and Jerry Goldsmith was released on compact disc on October 17, 1995. [ 42 ]
The Ocampa ruling Elders were subsequently charged with discovering the wishes of the Caretaker, who had become almost a deity to the Ocampan populace. By the late 21st century, the female Nacene, called Suspiria by the Ocampa, had decided to leave her mate to seek out "more interesting places." She established her own array, with a colony of ...
Voyager receives a distress call from a small ship. When they make a lifescan of the vessel, they are surprised that the occupant is an Ocampa. They make contact with it, and the bridge crew is shocked to see Kes on the viewscreen, almost three years after she left the ship and was not heard from again. Now here she is, looking elderly, tired ...
This episode was released on DVD on July 6, 2004 as part of Star Trek Voyager: Complete Third Season, with Dolby 5.1 surround audio. [5] [6] The season 3 DVD was released in the UK on September 6, 2004. [7] In 2017, the complete Star Trek: Voyager television series was released in a DVD box set, which included it as part of the season 3 discs. [8]
In order to protect the Ocampa, who live on a planet Voyager visits, Janeway destroys the Caretaker Array, the space station that transported the two ships to the Delta Quadrant, which provides energy to the Ocampa's planet, despite the fact that the Array may be the two ships' only chance to return home. In doing this, Janeway strands her ship ...