STAR TREK VOYAGER

CREW PROFILES

Commander of the U.S.S. Voyager. In 2371, the Starship Voyager, with Janeway and her crew, was abducted and swept into the distant Delta Quadrant of the galaxy, some 70,000 light-years from home, where they were essentially stranded. After the destruction of a Maquis ship that had also been abducted to the Delta Quadrant, Janeway accepted the Maquis crew aboard her ship and invited its commander, Chakotay, to become her second in command. Janeway's courage and leadership were instrumental in the survival of her crew as they made a long and difficult journey back to the Alpha Quadrant.

Janeway, whose father was a Starfleet admiral, grew up in Indiana on Earth, where summers were warm and humid. Janeway loved to ski. When she was young, Kathryn's parents took her and her siblings on camping trips, but she never did like camping, as she was very much a child of the 24th century. Kathryn had a sister, who was the artist of the family. Kathryn loved music, but never learned to play a musical instrument, a fact that she regretted in her adult life. As a child, one of Janeway's heroes was noted 20th-century Earth aviator Amelia Earhart. In later years, Janeway would recall that Earhart was one of the inspirations that led her to join Starfleet. Janeway enjoyed tennis when she was in high school, although she did not play the game again until 19 years later when she commanded the Starship Voyager. Janeway was close with her father, and grieved deeply after his tragic accidental drowning in 2358. Early in her career, Janeway served as science officer aboard the U.S.S. Al-Batani. Prior to the Voyager's disappearance, Janeway had been romantically involved with Mark Johnson, who took care of Molly, her pet Irish Setter.

During her off-hours aboard Voyager, Janeway enjoyed participating in a gothic romance holonovel set in old England on Earth. Captain Janeway was an accomplished pool player. She considered coffee to be an essential part of her lifestyle and had a particular weakness for coffee ice cream. She enjoyed knitting, and in 2372 made a monogrammed blanket for Ensign Samantha Wildman's newborn daughter. The luxury of a hot bath was probably Janeway's favourite form of relaxation.

On stardate 48546, Janeway sought Chakotay's help in experiencing a vision quest in search of her personal animal guide. In 2372, Janeway crossed the Warp 10 barrier, causing her to mutate into an amphibious creature. Fortunately, the EMH was able to reverse the mutative process. While mutated, Janeway and Paris mated, producing three amphibian children, that they left behind on a planet in the Delta Quadrant.

Janeway became afflicted with a potentially fatal viral disease in 2372 after accidental contact with an insectoid life-form on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. Extensive research determined that the condition could remain benign as long as she remained on the planet, but that she could not survive if she left. Voyager officer Chakotay was also stricken with the disease. Determined that her people should not sacrifice their chance to return home, Janeway ordered her ship to continue their voyage, leaving Janeway and Chakotay behind. On the planet, she found that life was made more pleasant by Chakotay's support and his wilderness skills. After several weeks, Voyager's crew, with the aid of Vidiian physician Denara Pel, was able to obtain an antiviral medication, and they returned to successfully treat Chakotay and Janeway. Chakotay and Janeway grew closer during their time alone together on the planet.  

First Officer Commander Chakotay 

First officer of the Starship Voyager and former member of the Maquis resistance group. Chakotay was of native American descent and fiercely proud of his ancestry. As a child, however, Chakotay rebelled against his heritage. At the age of 15, Chakotay traveled with his father, Kalopak, to Earth in search of the ancient Rubber Tree People. During the expedition, Chakotay hurt his father deeply by announcing that he was leaving his people to attend Starfleet Academy. Kalopak accepted his son's rebellion, noting that Chakotay had been a breech birth, indicating a problem child. Chakotay's application to the Academy had been sponsored by Captain Sulu. After his father's death, Chakotay came to recognize the importance of his people's heritage, and he tattooed his forehead in honor of his father and their ancestors. One of his ancestors was a school teacher in Arizona on Earth in the 20th century.

During Chakotay's first year at Starfleet Academy, he trained as a pilot over Earth's North American continent and spent a couple of months on Venus learning how to handle atmospheric storms. He later learned how to dodge asteroids in that system's astroid belt. Chakotay had an interest in archaeology. After Chakotay graduated from the Academy, he was a member of the Starfleet team that made first contact with the Tarkennans. He later left left Starfleet to join the Maquis in defense of his homeworld against the Cardassians. He commanded a Maquis ship that was lost in the Badlands in 2371 while fleeing from a Cardassian ship. Chakotay and his crew were swept into the distant Delta Quadrant, where they were trapped when their ship was destroyed by the Kazon-Ogla. Chakotay and his crew subsequently accepted an invitation to join the crew of the Starship Voyager under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway. Under this arrangement, Chakotay became the ship's first officer, replacing Lieutenant Commander Cavit. The difficult conditions in the Delta Quadrant led Chakotay to question whether Starfleet's idealism was appropriate in this distant part of the galaxy, wondering if the expediency of Maquis techniques might be wiser.

Chakotay practised his people's vision quest rituals, seeking direction from his animal guide. He used his medicine bundle to help invoke these rituals, and he would occasionally help those close to him experience the vision quest in search of their own animal guides. Chakotay honored his people's traditional medical practices, including the use of a medicine wheel to help guide his spirit back to his body when it was displaced by trianic energy beings on stardate 48734.

While in the Maquis, Chakotay was romantically involved with Seska, unaware that she was a Cardassian agent who had been surgically altered to appear Bajoran. Seska, who later defected to the Kazon, subsequently deceived Chakotay, telling him that she had impregnated herself with a sample of his DNA.

Chakotay became afflicted with a potentially fatal viral disease in 2372 after exposure to an insectoid life-form on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. Extensive research determined that the condition could remain benign as long as he remained on the planet, but that he could not survive if he left. Voyager Captain Kathryn Janeway was also stricken with the disease. Determined that her people should not sacrifice their chance to return home, Janeway ordered her ship to continue their voyage, leaving Chakotay and Janeway behind. On the planet, Chakotay's wilderness skills that he had learned as a boy from Kolopak, his father, proved invaluable. After several weeks, Voyager's crew, with the aid of Vidiian physician Denara Pel, was able to obtain an antiviral medication, and they returned to successfully treat Janeway and Chakotay. Janeway and Chakotay grew closer during their time alone together on the planet.

In 2373, Chakotay was temporarily assimilated into a Borg collective while on a mission of exploration into the Nekrit Expanse. His brief exposure to the Borg group consciousness helped heal him from a serious injury. Chakotay later assisted a group of former Borg drones to reestablish a group consciousness, which they felt necessary to a life of harmony.

Security Officer Tuvok

Security officer on the U.S.S. Voyager. Tuvok taught at the Starfleet Academy for 16 years. He was married in 2304 to T'Pel. Tuvok and T'Pel had four children, three sons and a daughter. At home on Vulcan, Tuvok was proficient at playing his Vulcan lute, a stringed musical instrument. He was skilled at horticulture, known for breeding prize Vulcan orchids.

Tuvok entered Starfleet Academy in 2289 at his parents' insistence. In 2293, he was assigned to the U.S.S. Excelsior as a junior science officer under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu. Tuvok did not realize it at the time, but he was infected with a parasitic memory virus from fellow crew member Dmitri Valtane. Tuvok found it difficult to accept the multicultural environment of Starfleet, preferring the controlled discipline of his own Vulcan people. He even spoke out against Captain Spock's visionary proposal of an alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Tuvok resigned from Starfleet shortly thereafter and returned to his homeworld to undergo the Kolinahr discipline. he studies were interrupted in 2304 when he underwent Pon Farr and married T'Pel. After raising a family of his own, Tuvok appreciated his parents' motives for sending him to Starfleet. After a 51-year absence, Tuvok returned to Starfleet in 2349 and was assigned to the U.S.S. Wyoming.

Tuvok was once stationed at the Jupiter Station some time prior to 2371. While there, he kept in contact with Kathryn Janeway by written letters. Tuvok taught archery science for several years at the Vulcan Institute of Devensive Arts.

In 2371, Tuvok went undercover and infiltrated the Maquis, ending up on Chakotay's ship. The Maquis ship and later the Voyager were abrubtly transported to the Delta Quadrant, and Tuvok returned to his regular Starfleet duties. Tuvok, who had been Kathryn Janeway's tactical officer for many years, would ordinarily have been assigned to replace Voyager's first officer, who died in the first encounter with the Caretaker. Janeway nevertheless elected to appoint Chakotay to that position in the interest of building trust with the new Maquis members of her crew.

In 2371, a member of the Komar species took control of Tuvok in an attempt to lead Voyager into a dark-matter nebula so that the Komar could extract the crew's neural energy. The attempt was not successful, and the alien left Tuvok's body. In 2372, Tuvok performed a Vulcan mind-meld with confessed murderer Lon Suder. The meld caused a neurochemical imbalance in Tuvok's brain, leading to a temporary, violent loss of emotional self-control. In that same year, Tuvok and Neelix were involved in a transporter accident that merged them at the molecular level, forming a new living being who adopted the name Tuvix. Tuvok did not exist during the two weeks that Tuvix lived.

Lieutenant / Ensign Thomas Eugine Paris - Conn Officer 

Starfleet officer aboard the U.S.S. Voyager. Early in his career, Paris served aboard the Starship Exeter. He majored in astrophysics at Starfleet Academy. As an Academy cadet, Tom chose the Starfleet base oustide Marseilles, France for physical training in his second semester of the Academy. He spent most of his time that semester at Chez Sandrine, a bistro that he later re-created in the holodeck of the Starship Voyager.

The son of Starfleet Admiral Owen Paris, Tom Paris was a graduate of Starfleet Academy and was involved in a fatal accident that claimed the lives of three other Starfleet officers. Paris initially denied responsibility for the accident, but later admitted he had falsified reports to hide his culpability, and was forced to leave Starfleet. In later years, Paris realized that his gratest mistake was not having told the truth. Paris became a mercenary for the Maquis, but was arrested by Federation authorities while on his first assignment for the resistance group. He was imprisoned at the Federation Penal Settlement in New Zealand on Earth, but was released in 2371 at the request of Voyager Captain Kathryn Janeway. In exchange for his parole, Paris agreed to help the Voyager locate his former colleagues in the Maquis. While carrying out this mission, Paris and all Voyager personnel were swept into the Delta Quadrant, where they were forced to join forces with the Maquis crew in order to survive. Janeway subsequently reinstated Paris' Starfleet commission and assigned him to the ship's conn. Paris experienced some discomfort at working under Commander Chakotay, a former Maquis officer.

In 2372 Paris made history by becoming the first human pilot to cross the transwarp treshold and attain the Warp 10 velocity. The experience accelerated the evolutionary process in his cellular DNA, mutating him into an amphibious creature. Fortunately, Voyager's EMH was able to reverse the process. Voyager captain Janeway was also mutated by Paris' transwarp flight, and while mutated, the two mated and had three amphibian children, which they left on a planet in the Delta Quadrant.

Tom Paris was an aficionado of 20th-century America, and was fond of traditional Earth foods from that period. He was an experienced rock climber and was skilled at spelunking.

Paris realized in 2372 that he was very much attracted to Kes. He decided not to act on these feelings out of respect for Neelix, who was involved with her at the time. Paris was an instrumental part of an elaborate scheme devised by Janeway and Security Chief Tuvok, intended to trap a spy believed to be operating aboard Voyager. Paris exhibited increasing anger and discontent with his life aboard the ship in 2372, culminating with his departure from the Voyager crew. In doing so, Paris was able to determine that Michael Jonas had been acting as Kazon operative, working against the interests of the Voyager crew.

Chief Engineer Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres

Former member of the Maquis resistance group who became chief engineer of the U.S.S. Voyager. Half-Klingon and half-human, Torres had an aggressive personality and had much difficulty controlling her temper, which she attributed to her Klingon heritage.

B'Elanna spent her early days with her parents at the Federation colony on planet Kessik IV. B'Elanna's human father left her and moved to Earth when she was five. She and her Klingon mother subsequently went to live on the Klingon Homeworld, but as a result, B'Elanna wasn't close to either of her parents.

Torres attended Starfleet Academy, but dropped out in her second year because of difficulty with Starfleet discipline. She had been a member of the Academy's decathlon team. Torres felt that her sometimes- turbulent stint at the Academy was evidence that she was not Starfleet material, but at least one of her instructors, professor Chapman, was so impressed with her original thinking that he recommended she be accepted of she ever sought re-admission to the Academy. She later joined the Maquis and served under Chakotay aboard a Maquis ship, and became a member of the Voyager crew when her ship and the Voyager were stranded in the Delta Quadrant in 2371. While in the Maquis, Torres was a close friend of Seska, not suspecting that she was a Cardassian agent.

After joining the crew of the Voyager she had a violent altercation with Lieutenant Carey, her superior officer in engineering. Nevertheless, Captain Janeway chose Torres over Carey to be the chief engineer of the Voyager. On stardate 48784, Torres was captured by a Vidiian scientist who used a genotron to split her into two individuals, one fullt human, the other completely Klingon. Her Klingon self sacrificed her life, so that her human half could live, and Voyager's holographic doctor was subsequently successful in restoring her original genetic structure to her surviving half. The experience helped Torres realize the importance of each half to her personality. Torres once sought Chakotay's help in locating her animal guide. She didn't get along with her guide and tried to kill it. When fellow Voyager crew member Vorik underwent the Vulcan Pon Farr in 2373, he asked Torres to become his mate. Torres declined, but nevertheless experienced Pon Farr herself, the result of a neurochemical imbalance introduced by Vorik. Torres subsequently attempted to mate with Tom Paris.  

Ship's Cook - Morale Officer Neelix

Talaxian trader who joined the crew of the Starship Voyager in 2371. As a child, Neelix lived with his parents and younger brothers on Rinax, a moon of Talax, where, due to Talax' three suns, the summer seasons were the hottest in the sector, reaching temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius with 90 percent humidity. Neelix was very close to Alixia, one of his sisters. The two enjoyed many adventures togother, exploring the Caves of Touth, visiting the equatorial dust shrouds, and even hunting arctic spiders. Neelix bred orchids, which he liked to serve in salads with Baldoxic vinegar. Neelix' entire family, including Alixia, was killed when Rinax was devastated by the metreon cascade attack by the Haakonian Order. Neelix survived when he was on Talax at the time, fleeing from military duty in a war he felt was unjust.

Neelix worked for two years on an orbital tether maintanence team on Talax. He served for two years as an engineer's assistant aboard a Trabalian freighter and also worked in a mining colony. There were a few incidents in Neelix' past that he would probably have preferred to have forgotten. He and his friend Wixiban had a run with Ubean authorities. Although Neelix escaped arrest, Wixiban served a brutal term in an Ubean prison.

Neelix, a native of the Delta Quadrant, had been a trader of junk and debris, but prided himself on his skills as a jack-of-all-trades. Neelix helped Captain Janeway deal with the Kazon-Ogla shortly after Voyager's arrival in the Delta Quadrant, and was subsequently invited to join the Voyager crew, in part because of his familiarity with the region of space. Neelix was romantically involved with Kes, who also joined the Voyager crew.

Shortly after joining the Voyager crew, Neelix appointed himself ship's cook and took it upon himself to convert part of the mess hall on Deck 2 into a kitchen. Neelix hoped not only to reduce the crew's dependence on replicated food, but also to prove his value as a member of the ship. In his kitchen, Neelix prepared numerous delicacies with food grown in Kes' hydroponics bay, or gathered on planets visited by Voyager. Unfortunately, Neelix neglected to note that he had used the captain's private dining room, immediately adjacent to the mess hall, for storage. Neelix also took it upon himself to serve as the ship's morale officer. Neelix performed diplomatic duties in helping the Voyager crew to deal with newly contacted civilisations, a task for which Janeway once jokingly suggested that he should be promoted to ambassador. Neelix even produced a daily informational audiovisual program, A Briefing with Neelix, which he distributed over the ship's internal communications system. Neelix often took part in monthly tactical exercises aboard Voyager.

On stardate 48532.4, Neelix was attacked. His lungs were surgically romeved, and they were implanted into a Vidiian named Motura, who was suffering from the phage. When Janeway declined to order Motura's death to reclaim Neelix' lungs, Kes donated one of her lungs to be donated into Neelix' body, thereby saving his life. In 2372, Tuvok and Neelix were involved in a transporter accident that merged them at the molecular level, forming a new being who adopted the name Tuvix. Neelix did not exist during the two weeks that Tuvix lived. Neelix encountered his old friend, Wixiban, in 2373 at the Nekrit Supply Depot space station. Neelix was briefly drawn back into the world of illicit trade, until he was injured when a cilinder of stolen warp plasma exploded. Janeway subsequently ordered Neelix to serve two weeks of deuterium maintenance duty as punishment for having stolen the plasma and engaged into illegal activities.  

Operations Officer Ensign Harry Kim 

Starfleet officer who joined the crew of the Starship Voyager just prior to its disappearance in 2371. In 2370, while attending Starfleet Academy, Harry Kim was the editor of the Academy newspaper for a year. During that time he reported on some of the first activity of the Maquis against the Cardassians. Kim had graduated from Starfleet Academy at stardate 47918, and was posted to Voyager shortly thereafter. His position aboard the Voyager was that of Operations Officer.

Family was very important to Kim, born in 2349, and he made it a point to call his parents weekly, even after he joined Starfleet. When Harry was nine years old, he and his parents visited a colony on a humanitarian mission. The colony had suffered a radiation disaster, and Harry had a traumatic experience when in inadvertantly wandered into a hospital operating room and saw a little girl on the table. Harry was his parents' only son, and he had enjoyed playing clarinet in the Julliard Youth Symphony. Even after the Voyager was lost into the Delta Quadrant, Kim spent one week's worth of replicator rations to replicate a clarinet, so that he could stay in practice. At the time of posting to Voyager, Kim had been engaged to marry a woman named Libby, with whom he was very much in love. Aboard Voyager, Kim's off-duty recreation included playing the title role in a holonovel version of the epic poem Beowulf. Harry enjoyed Vulcan mocha coffee, extra sweet.

In early 2372, Kim accidentally piloted a Voyager shuttlecraft through a timestream, sending him into an alternate reality in which he had not been assigned to Voyager, and was instead living with his fiancee, Libby, on Earth. In this reality, Kim earned the Cochrane Medal of Excellence, four outstanding advances in warp theory, and he helped design a new runabout prototype, the U.S.S. Yellowstone. Kim returned to his original reality with the help of an alternate Tom Paris.

Harry Kim was killed in 2372, when part of the Starship Voyager experienced an explosive decrompression when the ship encountered a spacial scission. A duplicate of Kim, from a duplicate Voyager created by the scission, returned to the original ship, replacing Harry Kim.

On stardate 50698, while on an away mission, Kim was infected with a Taresian genetically engineered retrovirus. The virus gave him genetic memories that compelled him to go to Taresia, where Taresian women tried to convince him that he was actually a native of their planet. Kim escaped when he learned that the Taresians planned to harvest genetic material from him to be used in their procreation process.  

Seven of Nine 

The Borg formerly known by the designation "Seven of Nine" has been disconnected from the Borg collective mind through the neutralization of the upper-spinal column neurotransceiver. In total, I have extracted eighty-two percent of her Borg hardware implants. The remaining bio-implants have been stabilized and remain critical to her life support. I have also stimulated her human metabolism and immune system, though the Borg Nanobots in her bloodstream will more than suffice until she has stabilized. Hair follicles have been repaired and stimulated. Left eyepiece has been replaced by an artificial organ replacement, simulating her own organic eye.

Starfleet records indicate that Seven of Nine was formerly Annika Hansen. Annika's parents were last reported to be leaving a remote outpost in the Omega sector, headed towards the Delta Quadrant in a small vessel The Raven. It is possible that the Hansen family were the first humans to be assimilated by the Borg.  

The Doctor Ships Medical Officer (Emergency Medical Holographic Program)
Report by Cmdr. Chakotay, First Officer, U.S.S. Voyager

Our ship's Doctor is a holographic figure - an emergency medical program devised by Starfleet programmers. When the ship's doctor and entire medical staff were killed in the "Caretaker's" displacement wave, the Doctor by necessity became the resident physician aboard the U.S.S. Voyager, assisted by first Paris and then Kes, a quick study in medical training.

The program's first statement upon activation is usually "Please state the nature of the medical emergency"; the automatic command was altered to allow his own creativity, but the Doctor preferred the known opening to creating his own more clever and personable lines. Initiation is automatic upon red alert status; the program is usually set for high magnetic cohesion, but it can be lessened to a mere image. For security's sake in a crisis it carries its own power grid separate from the nominal ship's Holodeck system. His wide array of programming has allowed him to keep Neelix alive with hologrpoahic lungs, save the Vidiian hematologist Danara Pel via a temporary holographic body, and even to alter DNA so as to remerge Torres' human and Klingon halves, reform Paris and Janeway from their retro-evolution as amphibians, and ensure the safety of Wildman's human-Ktarian baby at birth.

The AK-1 program indeed makes the Doctor is a genius when it comes to medicine, but his bedside manner leaves something to be desired - although he has already come far since he was first the joke and then the bane of the USS Voyager crew. In fact, it's harder to tell what's evolved more: the Doctor's own self-respect, or the respect he's given by his colleagues - with thanks on both counts largely due to his surprise assistant, Kes - though he still rubs Torres the wrong way and usually can't stand Neelix. Prodded by her and the simple needs of their predicament, Janeway has seen to it that not only is the Doctor accorded more briefings and updates, but he can now turn himself off - a small matter until seen in the light of independence.

Thanks to various crisis - as when Harry's Holodeck program began "devouring" the crew and later, the Doctor has even ventured from his familiar and all-but-mastered medical world to real-life adventures and even fear and heartbreak outside Sickbay. Also at Kes' urging he has considered a host of names but most recently has tried "Schmullus," the uncle of Vidiian hematologist Dr. Danara Pel whom he saved and actually fell in love with, leaning on Paris and Kes for romantic advice. The experience even prompted the Doctor to open his own personal log on SD 49504.3, to learn to dance, and to borrow Paris' holo-program for "parking" in an archaic '57 Chevy ground vehicle on Mars.

Due to the memory circuit degradation of extremely close kinoplasmic radiation, an EMH malfunction occurred ca. SD 48892.1 caused by a feedback loop between the Holodeck computer and the doctor's program, which was running a holo-novel at the time to "relax" at the captain's suggestion. No one was affected but the program itself, which was being convinced that it was its human lead programmer, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, amid a holographic study simulation of a battle-damaged ship and crew.

Apart from the clinical and statistical notes on parenting, he felt unqualified to help Kes with her decision on motherhood, but she still picked him as an absent parental figure to perform the rolisisin pre-mating ritual. He in turn took her advice to make himself sick, literally, to better empathize with patients; his resulting holo-version of Levodian flu lasted a day longer than he'd intended thanks to Kes, and I think he "learned" a helpful lesson in patience.

Report by Capt. K. Janeway

I never would have believed it, but our "Doctor" now has more memory and, thanks to the 29th century, is confined to Sickbay no more. It is taking some getting used to, but he has only rarely been troubled by glitches in the self-powered armband mobile emitter he wears after the time-stealing technocrat Starling "donated" it to us.

Despite the scare he gave us when his memory overloaded and degraded, I see no harm in continuing to allow and encourage his exploration of humanity -- as long as it does not endanger the crew's security and B'Elanna assures me we have the technical support to allow it. I admit I was skeptical when we took the chance of initializing his memory and then used the diagnostic program to add more, but I would hope -- La Boheme divas aside -- that these experiences to come will have a mellowing effect on his personality subroutine, which can only aide the crew on our very long journey.

We could not get along without him, and I owe him my life more than once - including his daring mix of diplomacy and tactics to retrieve the Vidiians' antidote to the virus which quarantined Chakotay and myself on a world to be left behind. His idea to emit holographic support ships proved promising, but I must add that I especially commend his defense of the ship with Crewman Suder against the Kazon-Nistrim, and against the macrocosms which we subdued together.

And while I opposed his choice, I will always remember and respect his citing of the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm" when I made the difficult decision to deintegrate the entity Tuvix into its original patterns for Tuvok and Neelix.

The sum total of all these actions increasingly only leads me to examine our preconceived notions of life and learning.

Kes

Profile Entry: Report by Capt. Kathryn Janeway Additional Medical Notes: EMH Doctor, AK-1

Kes is a female Ocampa, the species with a life span of only nine years whose home system Voyager was pulled to by the "Caretaker" entity of the Nacene race; although she appears as a twenty-year-old in human years, Kes is actually just two. A tough survivor and a bit of a rebel despite her waif-like air, she came aboard as Neelix's lover and to escape her abuse as a slave with the Kazon-Ogla on the surface of her world, having fled her peoples' passive underground existence to pursue the outside world and the mental acuities rumored to have flourished among her ancestors. She did so at the regret of leaving behind her wise father, Benarem, who died just after her first birthday; she was very close to him and still feels his presence as a guide.

Kes has already begun to develop her abilities, pursuing a full-fledged medical training course with the EMH Doctor and studying Vulcan mental disciplines with Tuvok. She has already led the ship into a disappointing rendezvous with the "female Caretaker" Susporia and a renegade Ocampa colony of advanced yet malevolent brethren, who almost allowed her to lose control of her new powers and kill her Vulcan friend. Kes' medical training has advanced so far that she can now handle away team medical duties, a welcome relief for the holographic doctor. She also helps Neelix in the kitchen and handles the airponics bay gardening.

She had first met Neelix when he stole water from the Kazon-Ogla to bring to her, and now absolutely adores him, standing by in his times of crisis; while doing all she could to discourage his jealous streak she was baffled when he and his perceived rival Paris came back old pals from birthing a reptilloid infant, and was even fearful to tell him that she and the Doctor were married in his holo-program malfunction. She has indeed developed a close friendship with the Doctor, whose medical teaching is repaid in a way by her encouragement on the road to his increasingly human programming - including hints about bedside manner, raising his level of respect by the rest of the crew, and a joint effort with Paris to get him and Vidiian Dr. Danara Pel's hologram together for a date.

Kes faces the greatest crisis of her young life when she became prematurely pregnant with the elogium due to the electrophoretic activity of nearby space-dwelling creatures and confronted with Neelix the emotional roller-coaster of whether or not to conceive a child at her young age. She opted not to, but the absence of the creatures and remission of the elogium effects made it a moot point; she should be fine at the right time. She would have chosen her father to perform her rolisisin pre-mating ritual had she been home for it; her mother may not be alive, since she is unmentioned.

DATABASE UPDATE, SD 50460:
Entry by K. Janeway

Our "youngest" crew member, aside from Samantha Wildman's baby, continues to make incredible growth and contributions to this crew as she nears her third Ocampan birthday. I do not know how we could have survived without advanced medical skills if not for her independent and quick-witted actions during the Swarm attack, when she initialized and grafted on more memory to our EMH when its memory database overloaded and began to degrade. It is too her humanity that she spoke out against fully blanking the Doctor's acquired memory and personality, and I understand she has more than risen to the challenge of aiding himin his newly mobile state. This is why, apart from the personal note, I felt the need to risk retrieving Kes from the Nechani

Since her premature elogium, the past year has been nothing but an emotional rollercoaster for Kes as well, beginning with Neelix and Tuvok's freakish transporter merger into one new lifeform, dubbed Tuvix, and her disquiet with his residual attraction for her. Her reaction, along with many other factors, led to the decision I made at that time to try for the separation.

Closer to home, her body's possession by the Ilaran warlord Tiernan has affected her perception of Tuvok, the Doctor, and even Neelix, although it is to her credit that Kes' will and ethics fought through the abduction. Still, I note with some sadness that she and Neelix have embarked on a platonic relationship for now at her request; it is good to know, for instance, that he still prepares her favorite meal of Trellian crepes on Wednesdays. But I wish them well along whatever path they choose.

DATABASE UPDATE:
Entry by EMH Doctor, AK-1