YMMV / Star Trek Voyager S 6 E 23 Fury

• Fanon Discontinuity: Due to the way the episode undoes Kes' well-received send-off and makes her a villain for poorly explained reasons, most fans prefer to pretend this episode never happened.
• Harsher in Hindsight: This episode is a lot harder to watch in light of Jennifer Lien's mental health and legal problems throughout the 2010s.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Oh no! Evil Kes just killed B'Elanna! (You can almost see the finger hovering over the Reset Button.)
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: People who dislike Kes tend to enjoy her portrayal in this episode, finding her much more fun as a villain.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Kes travels back to a point when Seska would still have been onboard, making secret deals with the Kazon, just like Kes does with the Vidiians. If only the show had been able to get two old guest stars to return for this episode...
  • Kes's "fury" would also have made infinitely more sense as a callback to "Before and After." She essentially sacrificed her daughter, grandson, and happy life aboard Voyager to save Janeway and B'Elanna. An episode about Kes trying to restore a previously seen Bad Future would've been pretty interesting, although this too would require hiring more guest actors. (Not to mention the complexities of bringing up the now twice-erased "Year of Hell"...)

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