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  Season 4 opens with Part 2 of "Scorpion", the first encounter Voyager has with the Borg collective and it is an excellent, action packed two-part episode. Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine joins the cast and Jennifer Lien leaves in the second episode of the Season, "The Gift". I still like Voyager after Kes leaves. In Season 4 though there is too much of Seven of Nine, it is more even in Seasons 5, 6 and 7 though. Some of my top episodes after Kes has left would be "Pathfinder", "Lifeline" and "Inside Man" because they feature my favourite other Star Trek character, Counsellor Deanna Troi. And, "Year of Hell" Parts 1 and 2, "Timeless", "Equinox" Parts 1 and 2, "Barge of the Dead", "Alice", "Riddles", "Shattered" and "Prophecy". In those Seasons my favourite character is B'Ellana Torres. So, in Seasons 4 to 7 Kes is just in three episodes: "Scorpion" Part 2, "The Gift" at the start of the Forth Season and then "Fury" in Season 6. Most Images are from The Official Star Trek Website Click on an episode name here or just scroll down: [Scorpion Part 2] [The Gift] [Fury] |
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Scorpion Part 2Synopsis:Janeway comes to an agreement with the Collective. She will stay aboard the Borg cube to develop the weapon against Species 8472 while Voyager is escorted safely through Borg territory. After Tuvok beams over to assist her, the Borg try to install temporary neuro-transceivers on both of them, but Janeway insists they be assigned a Borg representative to communicate with verbally instead. The Borg select a human female drone, designated as "Seven of Nine." The crew discovers that Species 8472 and their bio-ships are made of the same organic material; both will be vulnerable to the nanoprobes. They plan a large-scale delivery system using Voyager's photon torpedoes. Back in Sickbay, the Doctor cures Kim with the modified nanoprobes. Not long after, a bio-ship attacks, and the Borg protect Voyager. With the Borg cube damaged, Janeway and Tuvok are beamed to Voyager, along with Seven of Nine. Janeway is injured in the attack, so Chakotay takes charge of Voyager. Despite the Captain's plea to maintain their alliance with the Borg, he balks when Seven of Nine tells him he must travel deeper into Borg space to link up with their nearest ship. Unwilling to travel in the wrong direction, Chakotay decides to drop off the Borg and the nanoprobes at the nearest uninhabited planet and continue through the Delta Quadrant on their own. Seven of Nine and the other drones seize control of Voyager and send it through an interdimensional rift into fluidic space, the domain of Species 8472. The Borg have been there before; they started the war with 8472 but didn't bargain on their resistance to assimilation. Janeway orders Chakotay to cooperate with Seven of Nine to engage the aliens in fluidic space. Voyager launches the nanoprobe torpedoes, forcing 8472 to retreat. With their victory complete, Seven of Nine says the Voyager crew will be assimilated. But Janeway and Chakotay had anticipated this. He distracts her long enough for Torres to create a power surge that severs Seven of Nine's connection to the Borg. Feeling responsible for her fate, Janeway opts to keep her onboard in the hope that they can restore her humanity. Quotes: Kes's Role: In Parts 1 and 2, Kes is given a significant role, it is just before she leaves and related to why. Her mental abilities are re-surfacing, she communicates with Species 8472 telepathically. And she is on the Bridge during the battle to provide information about them. Review: "Scorpion" is the first confrontation between Voyager and the Borg collective. The Crew found a Borg corpse in "Blood Fever" and encountered a colony of ex-Borg and a ship full of dead Borg in "Unity", late last Season. This two-parter is very dramatic and made another great cliff-hanger. It is a very good, action packed episode and also has one of the best soundtracks, a very distinctive theme, you don't usually notice it but this one does stand out. Seven of Nine is introduced in Part 2 and Jeri Ryan replaces Jennifer Lien in the title sequence. I don't mind the character but many Kes fans don't like her, I know. I do like the Borg, especially from "The Next Generation" and they are good in this but they do become over used in the Seasons to come and aren't as 'fearful', Janeway always defeats them. My Episode Rating: 9/10   |
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The GiftSynopsis:When Seven of Nine learns that her link to the Borg Collective has been severed, her demands that she be returned fall on deaf ears. Investigating the former drone's past, Janeway learns that she was assimilated as a young girl named Annika Hansen. With her human physiology already reasserting itself, Seven of Nine's immune system begins rejecting her Borg implants, leaving the Doctor no choice but to remove them. Meanwhile, Kes begins to experience a startling increase in her telepathic abilities. Janeway orders Seven of Nine to assist the crew in removing the Borg modifications she made to the ship. However, while working, Seven accesses the subspace transmitter, trying to communicate with the Collective. But Kes senses her actions, and with her new enhanced abilities, she prevents Seven of Nine from completing the transmission. Seven of Nine is held in the brig to prevent any further attempts to contact the Borg. Over the drone's objections, Janeway says she will make her fully human again, believing that the end will justify the means. Meanwhile, Tuvok becomes alarmed when he finds that Kes' new abilities are endangering the ship. The ship's sensors reveal that Kes is periodically going into a state of cellular flux, with her atoms destabilizing at the subatomic level. Janeway is concerned but her attention is split by her efforts to help Seven of Nine, who is fighting against her assimilation into human culture every step of the way. With the ship's defenses compromised by her transformation, Kes decides it will be best for everyone if she leaves Voyager to further explore her new state. Janeway barely gets her to a shuttle before Kes' molecules completely destabilize and she dissolves into pure energy. Kes uses her transformation to bestow a final gift on her Voyager family, hurling the ship safely beyond Borg space and ten years closer to home. The Doctor finishes extracting most of the Borg technology from Seven of Nine, leaving her with a human appearance and, Janeway hopes, the instincts to complete her own difficult transformation. Quotes: Kes's Role: Kes's mental abilities are really resurfacing, she saves Seven of Nine's life and prevents her from contacting the Collective. They do become out of control though, she has to leave Voyager and she transforms into pure energy. Review: "The Gift" is Kes's final episode as a main cast member on Star Trek: Voyager. Her final episode should have just been a good final episode for her but just as much of the episode is focussed on Seven of Nine if not more. And, it seems a bit rushed, trying to get rid of Kes with her mental abilities out of control. It's not the best way of Kes leaving Voyager, her last episode as a main cast member that could have been done, but it's quite good. My Episode Rating: 7.5/10   |
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FurySynopsis:Voyager receives a distress call from a small vessel, piloted by a much older and weathered Kes. Captain Janeway grants her permission to come aboard, but she comes in much too fast and the vessel collides with Deck 9. However, Kes beams herself aboard Voyager just before impact. A cold and angry Kes uses her psychokinetic abilities to disable the ship's systems, giving off high levels of neurogenic energy that destroy everything in her path. Even a forcefield and a phaser shot from a security guard cannot stop her as she carves a path of destruction toward Engineering. Torres and Seven of Nine, shocked to see that the invader is Kes, train weapons on her, but the phasers ripple and distort in their hands. Kes steps up to the warp core and places her hands upon it. Just as Torres goes to shut down the core, she is struck by a tendril of energy. Seven rushes over to Torres' dead body, while Kes vanishes in a flash of light. When Kes disappears, she travels backward in time to Voyager as it was five years earlier, only a few weeks since being pulled into the Delta Quadrant. Sneaking up behind the original Kes, the undetected Kes from the future injects her with a hypospray, rendering her unconscious. The Janeway of this time period is concerned that another conflict may soon ensue with the Vidiians since two more ships have been detected on long-range sensors. On a secure channel, Kes from the future makes contact with the Vidiian captain. She tells him she will provide him with information necessary to capture Voyager, in return for her safe passage home to Ocampa. Meanwhile, Tuvok seems to be experiencing premonitions. Stepping into a turbolift, he encounters a young girl who identifies herself as Naomi Wildman. Tuvok follows the girl into the Cargo Bay, and when the doors open he sees Seven of Nine and the Borg children from the future regenerating in Borg alcoves. The Doctor confirms for Captain Janeway that Ensign Wildman is expecting a baby girl. Back in Engineering, Tuvok is once again having visions of the future. This time he experiences a fragmented replay of events when Torres is struck in the back with an energy tendril as a much older Kes looks on. Tuvok is brought to Sickbay where he begins to convulse upon the surgical bed. Janeway views the proximity scan of Tuvok at the time he collapsed in Engineering, and discovers there was a surge of tachyon particles. Since tachyons are normally generated by temporal distortions, Janeway concludes there's some form of time travel involved. When Janeway orders the bridge crew to scan for tachyon particles, Voyager suddenly finds itself under attack by the Vidiians. The crew realizes the Vidiians know more than they should about Voyager, including when they would be coming out of warp, their shield frequencies and which systems to target. Chakotay detects a transmission originating in the Airponics Bay, where he picks up two bio-readings that both read as Kes. Janeway heads to Airponics with a Security team as the bridge crew tries to break off the grappling hook that the Vidiian ship has attached to Voyager's hull. Meanwhile the Vidiians have started boarding Voyager, and Janeway must evade them in order to enter the Airponics Bay. She makes it, and confronts the Kes from the future. Kes tells Janeway she wants to rescue her past self, that she was taken from her home and made a prisoner on the ship, corrupted with ideas of exploration and discovery. She accuses the Captain of encouraging her to develop her mental abilities before she was ready, and now she would not be able to return home to Ocampa because her people would be frightened of her. Kes attacks Janeway telekinetically, but meanwhile Voyager breaks free of the Vidiian ship, and the resulting jolt leaves Kes off balance. Eventually Janeway is able to blast the future Kes with a phaser and kill her. When the Kes of the past recovers, Janeway asks her help to prevent something terrible from happening in the future. When an older Kes hails Voyager again in the future, the crew is already prepared. This time Captain Janeway orders the warp core shut down completely. When Kes enters Engineering, the Kes from the past appears in a message that she recorded to herself five years earlier. She reminds the older Kes that she made her own choices, and that the people she came back to harm care about her. Janeway approaches and reminds her why she made that recording. She urges her to stay on Voyager, but Kes says she needs to be with her own people. Finally she remembers making the holo-recording, and her anger dissipates. Realizing she can go home after all, she transports back to her vessel after a brief and awkward reunion with Neelix. Quotes: Kes's Role: The return of Kes, gone 'evil' and she has become very angry towards her former crew. She goes aboard and uses the Warp core to travel back in time to try and stop the younger Kes from being on board Voyager. And, she delivers Voyager into the Vidiians hands. Review: In "Fury" we see a totally different Kes. She would never be like this, the script is not that good. But, having said that, it is just wonderful to have Kes return that the script being a bit rubbish doesn't seem to matter so much. There are some nice scenes Kes has with Neelix and Janeway when she has travelled back in time. The Vidiians are good as an enemy again too. My Episode Rating: 8/10    |
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