Fury
- Episode aired May 3, 2000
- TV-PG
- 43m
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6.2/10
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An incensed Kes returns to Voyager to travel back in time and abduct her younger self, inadvertently causing younger Tuvok to experience precognitive hallucinations.An incensed Kes returns to Voyager to travel back in time and abduct her younger self, inadvertently causing younger Tuvok to experience precognitive hallucinations.An incensed Kes returns to Voyager to travel back in time and abduct her younger self, inadvertently causing younger Tuvok to experience precognitive hallucinations.
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- TriviaAn often overlooked bit of trivia is that this episode is the sole "return" appearance not only of Kes, but also of Samantha Wildman, played by Nancy Hower. Samantha, mother of Naomi, was a fairly important recurring character in early seasons, but was otherwise unseen after Once Upon a Time (1998). An urban legend says that the writers incorrectly remembered the ending of OUaT, where the injured Samantha is narrowly rescued from danger, and assumed that she had been killed off.
- GoofsCaptain Janeway tells Tuvok "it's not long before you hit the big three digits," implying that he is not yet 100 years old, but it was made clear almost four years earlier, in Flashback (1996), that Tuvok was already 108 or 109 then; so, by this time he'd be 112 or 113.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Inglorious Treksperts: Russ Never Sleeps: Vulcan Logic (2021)
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Subverting expectations or how to destroy a character
Apparently it wasn't enough for the showrunners to kick Jennifer Lien out of the series, they also had to completely ruin Kes in the process. Jennifer Lien's return for another episode can probably only be explained by the fact that she urgently needed money. I can't explain it any other way. Her performance in this episode was lackluster and amateurish. Somehow this episode is reminiscent of "Game of Thrones" season 8 and the complete U-turn of almost all characters such as Daenerys.
The portrayal of Kes in this episode doesn't match the character development of the last few seasons at all. I was never really a fan of Kes. Primarily because her character was conceived as one-dimensional and she was basically just the nurse in sickbay and Neelix's girlfriend. The character was never developed more deeply. It wasn't until shortly before Kes left the series that her telepathic abilities developed further, which should have happened much earlier in the series to make this character interesting. Kes was always warm, empathetic and always cared about others. And suddenly she's a fury who would knowingly sacrifice the lives of the entire crew to free her younger self from the clutches of Captain Janeway? Ridiculous.
In addition, her motivation is extremely thin and based on false facts. It is not Janeway's fault that Kes suddenly developed supernaturally strong telepathic and telekinetic abilities, nor did she encourage Kes to leave Voyager. On the contrary, she wanted her to stay. If Kes is overwhelmed by this new power and feels she can no longer return to her people, then that is not the fault of Janeway or anyone else on the ship. And the fact that Kes would therefore betray the entire crew and hand them over to certain death at the hands of the Vidiians absolutely does not suit Kes.
Of course you can change established characters so that they take a different path, but this has to be understandable. There must be profound events and reasons that suddenly take a character in a different direction. Or a character must have previously demonstrated certain characteristics that suggest a dark side that just hasn't come to the surface yet. How Kes has been portrayed so far, how she has thought and acted, would not explain why she is now suddenly a mentally ill psychopath on a quest for revenge against Janeway and Voyager. The only, albeit weak, explanation: senility. I'm just not sure this applies to Kes or the writers of this episode.
The portrayal of Kes in this episode doesn't match the character development of the last few seasons at all. I was never really a fan of Kes. Primarily because her character was conceived as one-dimensional and she was basically just the nurse in sickbay and Neelix's girlfriend. The character was never developed more deeply. It wasn't until shortly before Kes left the series that her telepathic abilities developed further, which should have happened much earlier in the series to make this character interesting. Kes was always warm, empathetic and always cared about others. And suddenly she's a fury who would knowingly sacrifice the lives of the entire crew to free her younger self from the clutches of Captain Janeway? Ridiculous.
In addition, her motivation is extremely thin and based on false facts. It is not Janeway's fault that Kes suddenly developed supernaturally strong telepathic and telekinetic abilities, nor did she encourage Kes to leave Voyager. On the contrary, she wanted her to stay. If Kes is overwhelmed by this new power and feels she can no longer return to her people, then that is not the fault of Janeway or anyone else on the ship. And the fact that Kes would therefore betray the entire crew and hand them over to certain death at the hands of the Vidiians absolutely does not suit Kes.
Of course you can change established characters so that they take a different path, but this has to be understandable. There must be profound events and reasons that suddenly take a character in a different direction. Or a character must have previously demonstrated certain characteristics that suggest a dark side that just hasn't come to the surface yet. How Kes has been portrayed so far, how she has thought and acted, would not explain why she is now suddenly a mentally ill psychopath on a quest for revenge against Janeway and Voyager. The only, albeit weak, explanation: senility. I'm just not sure this applies to Kes or the writers of this episode.
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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