Kes Returns - what episode would you have made?

[Akiraprise]

Enough of the bickering at each other. The next one that continues after this point gets a warning.

Lynx you're the primary escalator here and you're now reply banned for 48 hours since you did not heed me earlier. Use the cool down period wisely.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Earth Girls are Easy.

So much faster than Voyager, Kes goes to Earth to see what the big deal was, and meets the families of the Voyager crew, to rest concerns, and visits all the local hot-spots her "friends" told her were the best. This lasts a couple years, until Voyager finally gets home, and Kes is waiting for them, but then she dies of natural causes seconds before Voyager's gangplank drops, because she is nine years old.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

I've long fantasized about "Fury" as a two-parter, but....my ideaes were a bit simpler.

Idea #1: Same storyline, but with Kes's descent into rage/insanity explained, and she teams up with Seska (who hasn't been outed as a spy yet).

Idea #2: Make it about Kes trying to restore the "Before and After" timeline.

 

[rocketscientist]

Neelix and the Real Girl.

Lonely Neelix rebuilds his lost girlfriend on the holodeck. Eventually he realizes that he is sad and creepy after a conversation with the Doctor, so he asks Captain Janeway on a real date, in the real world.

She rejects him, and they both go home to cry themselves to sleep.

The Doctor and Holo Kes live happily ever after.

Not bad!

They were desperate to do something different from other Trek, and didn't think through the possible audience reaction.

Yep, that's the only explanation. The Ocampa were just a badly thought out alien species, and, ultimately, it really shackled the Kes character right from the get-go.

Earth Girls are Easy.

So much faster than Voyager, Kes goes to Earth to see what the big deal was, and meets the families of the Voyager crew, to rest concerns, and visits all the local hot-spots her "friends" told her were the best. This lasts a couple years, until Voyager finally gets home, and Kes is waiting for them, but then she dies of natural causes seconds before Voyager's gangplank drops, because she is nine years old.

Plus, the whole relationship was creepy as hell. She's basically a child, and he..... was not.

Yeah, the whole Neelix-Kes relationship looks horrible. 2 year old runs off with space-truck driving man!

It's one of those things where you truly wonder what the heck the creators were thinking with regard to both characters. Lien and Philips are both good actors, but I never cared for either of their characters as written. Neelix, in particular, was tremendously irritating. Neelix, to me, is the Jar-Jar Binks of Star Trek while Kes is just cloying.

And Harry Kim and Chakotay are just boring. Bah!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What if a group of Ocampa had settled on Kelemane's planet? Would their lifespan be determined by the way they experienced time there, or by how much Voyager time had passed?