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. Simultaneously, Star Trek: Voyager had designs toВ introduce a new main crew memberВ - a female Borg-in-recovery by the name Seven of Nine. Rick Berman and Jeri Taylor ( Star Trek: VoyagerВ showrunners) have admitted in interviews that the Neelix/KesВ romance angleВ was ill-judged and, despite Lien's best efforts, VoyagerВ had reached a creative dead endВ with Kes and her unique biology.

Firstly, the writers recognized they'd dropped the ball with the character. She mayВ 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.В There are two main reasons Kes was written out of Star Trek: Voyager.

Related: Star Trek: All 7 Characters Played By JG Hertzler Threatening the very crewmatesВ she had come to love, the Ocampa decides to leave Voyager, evaporating into pure energy andВ leaving Kes' fate somewhat ambiguous. In a further alien quirk, Kes was tragically destined for a lifespan of onlyВ nine years.ДЄsВ a youngВ but prodigiously talented member of the Voyager crew, Kes shared certain traits with Wil Wheaton's Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and although fans didn't react with quite the same disdain as they did for poor Wes, Kes certainly wasn't the most popular of Star Trek: Voyager's crew.В Jennifer Lien'sВ exit came in season 4's 'The Gift,' after Kes' psychic abilitiesВ began spiraling out of control following an encounter with Species 8472. A member of the Ocampa species, Kes possessed telepathic abilities and was romantically involved with Neelix initially, before breaking off the entanglement in season 3. Among Star Trek: Voyager's main cast was Jennifer Lien as Kes. In a unique twist, Captain Janeway's Starfleet vesselВ finds itself lost in the Delta Quadrant, and the Voyager crew aren't seeking new worlds and new civilizations,В but a way home. You May Also Like.The character ofВ Kes Star Trek: Voyager, portrayed by actress Jennifer Lien left the seriesВ after season 3, even though she was a central and interesting character.В Premiering in 1995, Star Trek: VoyagerВ hoped to usher in a new generation of fans after Jean-Luc Picard's time on the small screen cameВ to an end. They will meet many foes and many obstacles along the way, but they will also bond as a crew, between those of the Maquis and those of Starfleet. However, after the destruction of the device that transported them to the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager and the crew of the Maquis ship must join together to fight their way back to their home in the Alpha quadrant, which is many years away. While chasing a renegade Maquis ship in the Badlands, the USS Voyager and the Maquis ship they are chasing are pulled into a vortex, which sends them instantly to the Delta Quadrant. This leads to near disastrous results for Voyager.

Seven is the only member of the crew Janeway tells about this directive, in the hope that Seven can help her with this task, but Seven decides it might be better to study the highly unstable molecule. It's the highly secretive Omega Directive, which orders all Star Fleet Captains to stop everything, and do everything in order to destroy a detected Omega molecule. Stardate: 51781.2 Everything is running normal on Voyager when Janeway suddenly receives a coded message from the ship.

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