10 Ways Jennifer Lien’s Kes Staying On Voyager Would’ve Changed Star Trek

Star Trek: Voyager would have been different in its latter seasons if Kes (Jennifer Lien) had stayed on the USS Voyager instead of departing in Voyager season 4, when her ostensible replacement Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) arrives. There’s no narrative reason both Kes and Seven couldn’t have existed concurrently, especially since the differences between Kes’ optimistic innocence and Seven’s detached efficiency could have made for an interesting conflict that would still serve the purpose of invigorating Voyager‘s lagging storylines.