Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
Star Trek : Voyageractors Robert Duncan McNeill ( Lt . Tom Paris ) and Garrett Wang ( Ensign Harry Kim ) call up filming Jennifer Lien ’s final sequence as Kes . Voyagerseason 4 , instalment 2 , " The Gift " was an especially difficult instalment for cast phallus who had grown nigh to Lien during her metre on the show . McNeill suggests that view between Lien and her co - stars seem to reflect"the world of Jennifer Lien ’s last sequence " , with Wang agreeing thatfellowVoyageractors were affect by the impending departure of both Lien and Kes , peculiarly those who often deal screen metre with Lien .
Reflecting upon Lien ’s exit onThe Delta Flyerspodcast , McNeill posit thatJennifer Lien ’s departure fromStar Trek : Voyageraffected Robert Picardo ’s operation to diffuse the Doctor with more humanity , and credits Ethan Phillips with"authentic"acting as Neelix that"was work on multiple levels"in both actors ' last setting with Lien . However , the most emotional scene in " The Gift " is the one Jennifer Lien shares with Kate Mulgrew , as Captain Kathryn Janeway bid an emotional farewell to Kes . register their quotes and listen toThe Delta Flyersepisode below :
Garrett Wang : " Kes tells Janeway that this is her meter to leave , and all those lines ? bury about those agate line . All the lines that were said in this conniption were basically Kate Mulgrew tell apart Jennifer Lien , ' I ’m gon na miss you . I ca n’t believe output has allow you go , ' basically , is what this entire fit was . This was the excited one for me . This is the one where I started getting emotional just watching this , just knowing , you hump , that this was– "
Robert Duncan McNeill : " Well , Kate was very emotional , and you could see Jennifer was very emotional . "
Garrett Wang : " [ For ] both of them … This had nothing to do with real Kes or Janeway . "
Robert Duncan McNeill : " They were say words about these characters , but their feelings and intentions when this scene was film were all about saying goodbye to Jennifer . "
Jennifer Lien ’s Kes stay on on Voyager changes Star Trek with Ocampa power and conflict with Seven of Nine leading to Kes ' character development .
Jennifer Lien Had an Emotional Impact on Voyager’s Cast
Reasons for Lien’s Departure Are Still Unknown
While Jennifer Lien ’s clock time onStar Trek : Voyagerwas brief , Lien still had an worked up impact onVoyager ’s cast and crew . Robert Duncan McNeill asserts onThe Delta Flyersthat"it was very grueling to see Jennifer leave,“as he sombrely looks back on Lien ’s terminal episode . Kes ' integral kindness welcomed the USS Voyager to the Delta Quadrant with undecided arms and gaveVoyagera pound heart , but her potential as an emotionally - aware reference was never unfeignedly search byVoyager ’s writers . Nonetheless , Voyager ’s work party sleep with Kes , andVoyager ’s cast make love Lien just as much , which made it difficult to speak the reasons behind Lien leave .
While Jennifer Lien return for one instalment ofStar Trek : Voyagerin season 6 , installment 23 " Fury " , " The Gift " cross off Lien ’s last episode as a veritable shape member .
McNeill and Wang do n’t offer any explanations for Lien leavingStar Trek : VoyageronThe Delta Flyers . The possibility thatLien leftVoyagerfor genial wellness - relate reasonscame to light afterThe Delta Flyersrecorded their episode about " The Gift , " but that account stay just a possibility , and the real reason for Lien leavingVoyagerremains unknown . Instead , Garrett Wang and Robert Duncan McNeill rightly and respectfully focus their podcast discourse on their ownStar Trek : Voyagermemories , and the laborious emotions associated with saying goodbye to both Kes and Jennifer Lien .
Star Trek : Voyageris available to pour on Paramount+ .
Source : The Delta Flyers
