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"The 37s,"
"Projections," "Elogium," and "Twisted"
were filmed as season one episodes but held back till season
two to be shown on TV, and they're in the season two DVDs. But it
bugs me because the stardates don't match up!
Here are all the episode this season in which Kes plays a large
part in the story or has some good character moments, i.e.
essential Kes viewing!
Left: "Elogium" trailer. Right: "Cold Fire" trailer.
When the crew of Voyager investigate a cluster of space-borne life forms, Kes prematurely enters a stage in her life known as the 'Elogium', which is the only time in her life when she can conceive a child.
A very good episode, although it's my least
favourite Kes focussed episode. The opening of the episode has
Neelix getting very jealous of Tom Paris helping Kes. When the
space dwelling life forms affect Kes, it's hilarious when she
eats everything in sight, (bugs, dirt and flowers) and Neelix has
to carry her to sickbay! Bu
t it's a bit OTT when she stares at the
bugs in her hand before the titles. It's touching when Janeway
comforts Kes and gives her a hug. Kes has a very difficult
decision to make and in the end decides not to have a child.
Although it is established this was a false elogium and may go
through it again. I don't know what it is, but there's something
about this episode that doesn't show Kes in a good way. I don't
mean her appearance but she appears sweaty, with strange eyes and
yellow goo on her hands. It doesn't seem to portray Kes very
well. But because there's lots of Kes it's a lovely episode.
Voyager encounters a strange energy field during a surprise
party on the holodeck for the second birthday of Kes. During this
party Tuvok is on the bridge and orders the ship closer to an
energy field in order to investigate, only to get the ship stuck
in the field. The inteference from the field causes communication
onboard Voyager to fail. Realising this, the party is brought to
an early conclusion and the crew make their way back to their
appropriate posts to solve the problem. However, soon it becomes
apparent that the ship's layout has changed and it becomes very
difficult for the crew to reach their posts...
It's great to see Kes's second birthday celebrations on the holodeck at Sandrine's (a french bar). Tom gives her a beautiful locket making Neelix very jealous again! Celebrations are cut short when the strange energy field comes in contact with the ship. Kes and Neelix can't seem to find their way back to Kes's quarters while Neelix is acting very annoyingly because of his jealousy. The ship has turned into a maze, the energy field has twisted the ship around. Not the greatest episode but still lots of fun.
After Kes asks Tom Paris to be her flight instructor, he finds himself falling for her. A jealous Neelix picks up on the Lieutenant's crush, and instigates a messy fight with Paris in the mess hall. Despite - or because of - the friction between them, Janeway decides to send the sparring pair on a shuttlecraft mission to replenish food supplies.
Kes is sort of at the centre of this episode, but not in it all that much. Tom and Neelix work their problems out by working together taking care an alien baby. Paris admits to his crush but says he’ll never act on it because he repects Neelix and can see how much Kes loves him, he’d not have a chance. When they return to Voyager to Kes's surprise they are now the best of friends.
QUOTES:
Kes: What happened? I heard that you...
Neelix: Nothing happened.
Kes: They said that you and Tom Paris...
Neelix: Kes, we'll talk when I get back.
Kes: I want to know. Neelix, is it true that you were fighting?
Neelix: When I get back.
A mysterious alien puts the crew into a trance by
appearing as their loved ones. Kes sees some of the same things
that Janeway does while she is in Sickbay. Then towards the end
of the episode it is up to Kes to save Voyager. Only her and the
Doctor are not in a trance, Kes goes to Engineering and manages
to block the field from the aliens ship, even though a
representation of Neelix had appeared to her, trying to get her
to give in. With her mental abilities, Kes projects back boils
onto the alien and defeats him. This is a very good plot for Kes,
to show what a powerful and fantastic character she is. She saves
the ship and crew, in the end. The whole 
episode
is good, focussing on all the characters.
QUOTES:
B'elanna: Is that who's responsible for all this?
Kes: Apparently. He looks so harmless, it's hard to believe he
almost destroyed us.
Alien: You're a powerful little thing, I must say you surprised
me.
When The Doctor and Kes treat Ensign Wildman for pain during her prenancy, Kes has a go at the Doctor saying he should have some more compassion when he just sends Wildman back to work. He accepts her challenge and programs a flu virus. But Kes admits that she's added a couple of hours after the Doctor contacts the Captain for help with what he thinks in a malfunction. Very funny B plot! It's a shame the main plot isn't very interesting, Chakotay discovering a planet with similarities to his past. Kes also joins the away team looking for Chakotay.
QUOTES:
Harry: What seems to be the problem?
Doctor: My simulated virus is leading me to a simulated death.
Kes: It's nothing to worry about, I just added a couple of hours
to his computer program. He'll be fine in about 45 minutes...
Knowing when it would end didn't exactly make it a fair test did
it Doctor. [Kes leaves]
Doctor: She's far more devious than I ever suspected.
Kes and the Doctor notice a peculiar change in the remains of
the Caretaker, the alien who trapped Voyager in the Delta
Quadrant. They seem to be resonating in response to an unusual
energy source. Remembering that the dying Caretaker had mentioned
a female of its kind, Janeway wonders if she could be nearby. If
so, a meeting with her could be their ticket home. The crew
discovers a space station inhabited by Ocampa, who fire on the
ship. Kes agrees to act as the crew's liaison to her people.
Tanis, the leader of this group, shows Kes a sample of the
powerful abilities she has yet to tap and tells her about
Susperia, the caretaker's mate. Kes's abilites increase but
there's an accident when she inadvertently boils Tuvok's blood!
Susperia blames the crew for her mates death but Kes becomes
aware of the monstrous plot. Kes stops Tanis with her expanded
psychic abilities, and Tanis's pain temporarily incapacitates
Suspiria. Janeway is then able to fire a toxin, subduing her.
This is most definately the best Kes episode, a sequel to the
series pilot. It was Tanis's influence over Kes giving her
increased abilities here but Tuvok tells her that those abilities
may well resurface one day.
QUOTES:
Kes: I can feel her presence. She's powerful, turbulent... she's
upset, she's angry!
Tanis: Kes
Kes: She wants to destroy the ship!
Tanis: Kes listen to me there's nothing to worry about.
Neelix: Am I interrupting?
Tanis: Forget these people, you're beyond them.
Kes: No
Neelix: Leave her alone Tanis!
Tanis: Remember how you felt in the Airponics bay, you've never
felt that way in your life have you?
Kes: Get away from me!
Tanis: That was only the beginning Kes.
Neelix: I said leave her along!
[Tanis throws Neelix across the room with his powers]
Kes: Neelix!
Tanis: Leave him, leave him Kes, he's nothing compared to you.
You have to trust...
[Kes uses her mental powers on Tanis]
Tanis: Susperia...
As Voyager enters a plasma cloud to evade approaching Vidiian
ships, Ensign Wildman goes into labor and delivers a baby girl.
But as the crew emerges from the cloud, a series of astounding
events occur: the warp engines stall, the antimatter supplies
drain, and proton bursts cause a hull breach. What's more, Kim is
sucked out into space, Kes vanishes in a mysterious void, and
Wildman's baby dies. It turns out Voyager has been duplicated
within this plasma cloud, one of the crew's is luckier than the
other. Kes is present in Sickbay, when she and the Doctor are
trying to deliver Samantha Wildman's baby and deal with the many
wounded. When Kes goes to try and help Hogan, she 
disappears into a void and crosses over to the other
Voyager. She tells Janeway what has happened and returns with
Janeway to the other Voyager to talk to the other Janeway. When
the Vidiians attack one of the Voyagers Kes is in sickbay and
gets killed (though we don't see it) and they say how they'll use
her organs. The Vidiians are very scary, freaked me out quite a
bit!
QUOTES:
Kes: I was running through the corridor with my med kit, Deck 15.
Then I suddenly felt dizzy and my vision started to blur. After
that I don't remember anything until you woke me up just now.
On an away mission to locate nutritional supplements, Tuvok
and Neelix find a promising native orchid. Later, when the crew
beams them back to Voyager with samples of the flowers, the pair
never arrives. Instead, a single entity appears on the
transporter platform. The Doctor confirms that this strange but
oddly familiar alien is actually a fusion of Tuvok and Neelix.
With all the memories and abilities of the pair, the new
crewmember decides to name himself "Tuvix." Kes mourns
the loss of two men: her lover and her mentor. Kes tells Janeway
that despite Tuvix's wonderful qualities, she's not ready to let
go of Neelix. Several weeks pass, and Tuvix settles into life
aboard the ship. In time, Kes reaches out to him and apologizes
for being distant. Just as it looks as if everyone has adjusted
to Voyager's new crewmember, the Doctor announces that he's
devised a way to restore him to his two original components.
There's just one problem: Tuvix doesn't want to die, even if it
means allowing the other two men to live... There is a very large
role for Kes in this episode because it is involving the two most
important men in her life. So many confusing emotions for Kes and
Jennifer does a wonderful job. In the end Kes admits to Janeway
that she does
just want Neelix back, and breaks down. It's a huge
ethical dilemma that Star Trek does so well. It's
fantastic, great casting for Tuvix's role and a wonderful scene
between the Captain and Kes (below). It's rare to have a
character based episode without a B-plot with the ship in danger
or something, perfect.
QUOTES:
[Janeway answers her door to Kes]
Kes: Captain, I'm sorry I shouldn't have bothered you this late.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Janeway: Actually, I was having trouble sleeping. I could use
some company. Please, sit down... I was just looking over some
old letters Tuvok sent me, when he was assigned to Jupiter
Station. Most people would say his writing is cold, analytical,
detached. But I've always thought it to be consise, efficient,
thoughtful. I hear his voice when I read the words. And Neelix,
I've become so fond of him, Kes I can't imagine what you're going
through.
Kes: I wanted to talk to you about Tuvix. He came to see me this
afternoon. He said that he loved me.
Janeway: I suppose I can see how that's possible, given the
circumstances.
Kes: I wasn't sure what to say. At first I was angry, but I know
he's trying to comfort me and I know how he feels alone too. To
tell the truth he's a wonderful person.
Janeway: Do you have feelings for him too, Kes?
Kes: No, I don't. I mean how could I? I still love Neelix and I'm
not ready to give up on him, no matter what the Doctor says.
Janeway: I know how you feel. You're experiencing what people on
this crew have been going through since we got stranded in this
Quadrant. Do we accept that we've been separated from our loved
ones forever? Or do we hold on to the hope that someday we'll be
with them again?
Kes: What do you do Captain?
Janeway: Well, I struggle with it every day. Sometimes I'm full
of hope and optimism, other times I dream about being with Mark
and it's so real. Then I wake up and realise it's just a dream,
I'm terribly discouraged. In those moments it's impossible to
deny just how far away he really is. I know that someday I may
have to accept that he's not part of my life anymore.
Kes: So, are you saying that I should just accept Neelix isn't a
part of my life anymore?
Janeway: I would never tell you or anyone else to give up hope,
Kes. I think the best thing you can do now is give yourself time.
Kes: Thank you Captain. I'll go now and let you sleep.
[They hug]
Janeway: My door is always open to you Kes.
* "The 37s" - Kes is field medic, with her
ears hidden to appear human, when the crew discover Amelia
Aerheart and others in stasis.
* "Initiations" - Neelix and Kes are
designated Voyager's Kazon experts, so Kes joins the away team to
rescue Chakotay on a planet with Kazon booby traps.
* "Projections" - When the holodeck
malfunctions with the Doctor inside, he is made to think he's a
real person. Kes is his human wife in that reality.
* "Non Sequitur" - Very little Kes here.
* "Manoeuvres" - Kes just has one line in this
episode, when her and the Doctor perform a post-mortem on a
Kazon.
* "Resistance" - Kes is not in this one. But
this is a very sweet episode, Janeway injured while on an
undercover mission and an old man thinks she's his daughter.
* "Prototype" - Kes is only at the very end of
the episode, serving Janeway and B'elanna in the mess hall.
* "Alliances" - Kes is at the start of the
episode treating casualties during a Kazon attack. She is at the
memorial service for a crew member and appears later.
* "Threshold" - In this ridiculous episode,
Kes treats Paris while he's evolving into a lizard type creature!
And she gives him his last request, a kiss.
* "Meld" - When Tuvok turns violent after a
mind meld with a murderer, Kes assists in his treatment and he
tries to trick her.
* "Dreadnought" - There's a funny scene with
the Doctor, Kes and Samantha Wildman discussing names. Kes
suggests her fathers name, Benaren, for Samantha's baby and the
Doctor says she never suggested that one for him then he gets in
a mood and she reels off some more names she knows but it's no
good!
* "Death Wish" - The other Q says he envies
Kes for having a 9 year life-span. He's tired of being immortal
and wants to committ suicide!
* "Lifesigns" - Lots of Kes, she provides
encouragement to the Doctor and his first romantic interest,
Danara, a Vidiian he has saved.
* "Investigations" - Neelix discusses his
suspicions and worries with Kes about a traitor aboard Voyager.
* "Innocence" - Kes briefly appears, she has
been coaching the Doctor on his diplomatic skills to welcome
visitors aboard.
* "The Thaw" - Medic Kes is throughout the
episode because the patients are in stasis in the cargo bay.
* "Resolutions" - When Janeway and Chakotay
are left behind, Kes goes to Tuvok to try and get him to listen
to reason. And she helps in sickbay when the Vidiians attack!
* "Basics" Part 1 - Not much Kes but she has
scenes in sickbay, is taken to the cargo bay when the Kazon take
over Voyager and of course is stranded on the planet with
everyone else! What a fantastic cliff-hanger!
