About the character:
Kes is born in 2370. When she is 1 year old her father, Benaren,
dies and only the mother Martis is left. Kes remembers her father
as a wise man, who learned her to be what she is. Her curiosity
and intelligence makes her to leave her people from their underground
city to learn more of her world. But on the surface she is caught
and abused by a gang for later on to get away in the space ship
USS Voyager. Aboard her best friend is Neelix,
who she also is very much in love with.
Kes believes in the ancient legends about her people once possessed
incredible, mental abilities and soon after her arrivel at Voyager
she starts herself to manifest them: She gets visions about the
destruction of a planet caused by a ion energy in another time line.
For that reason she studies vulcan thought control techniques by
Tuvok. Aboard Kes is a nurse assisting
the holografhic doctor. She dies
in 2379 after been hit by a precise modulated field of antichroniton
particles. The result is her going into a state of cellular flux
and she reaches a higher level ("The Gift" (70)).
About the actor:
Jennifer Lien is born on August 24th 1974 in Illinois, USA. Already
as a child she display a desire and a talent for acting, so when
a drama teacher in 1987 encourage her to try out her talent, she
is getting to perform in a number of stage plays.
Now two years after Jennifer Lien has in the age of 16 achieved
to be on TV. She tries all the time new boundaries for herself and
even that the part as Kes in "Star Trek: Voyager" is her
biggest succes, she still tries to do something else. Jennifer Lien
appeares in the first three season. Though she makes a guest appearance
in the series a couple of times, as it can be seen further down
the page.
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