This look makes 18 appearances across seasons 2, 3, and 6, more than any other outfit. It consists of three layers: the pink tunic over the purple dress over the dark pink undershirt and leggings/tights. Although the fabrics of both the underdress and tunic fluctuate, the basic idea of the outfit is the same. The …
This outfit is the most drab of any Kes wears in color, shape, and textile – but it is firmly within her ‘Tinker Bell’ aesthetic and incredibly interesting in context. “Cold Fire”, “Warlord”, “Before and After”, and “Fury” are significant episodes within Kes’s arc on the series and all deal with ‘what if’ scenarios. It’s especially …
The orange and red is notably more colorful than anything we see other Ocampa wear and compliments the dialogue that expresses Kes’s culturally controversial personality: TOSCAT: You defied the Caretaker by going to the surface, Kes. Learn from the experience. Follow the path he has set for us. KES: I’ve learned very well, Toscat. I …
This purple outfit is much more structured than any of her others, and is a solid color which I think of as “less Kes”. But I do like how it references the Starfleet uniforms of the crew from within her aesthetic. I love the cut outs here, but the colors read a little dusty, like …
With few exceptions Kes wears layered minidresses over tights. I love it. Kes is probably the Trek character whose fashion choices most closely resemble my own personal ‘character design’ (Kira’s casual outfits are the only others in the running and they are also made up of layers in different textiles). Kes resembles Tinker Bell: I …
How Deanna Troi can Kes be? So Deanna. Same color (Starfleet Medical Blue). Same cut: I mean, seriously, that asymmetric collar is so very Kes and so very Teal!Deanna at once that a tiny part of me thinks they built asymmetry into Kes’s aesthetic to reference Deanna from the beginning. It’s worn over matchy tights …
These two outfits are the closest Kes gets to a uniform in design. The blue especially shares traits with clothes worn by both Deanna Troi and T’Pol, clothes that are specifically not Starfleet issue but are nonetheless uniforms of a type. In contrast, these two looks fall outside what Kes normally wears. The blue jumpsuit has …
An academic thesis could be written about the progression of holoprograms Tom Paris creates for the Voyager crew. The Hawaiian resort features after the Parisian dive bar and before the quaint Irish seaside town. And it gets the entire crew (except Tuvok) into resort wear at least once. Which for the women means a swimsuit, …
These episodes present versions of Kes that are not actually Kes. The interesting thing is how the outfits are exactly that: they follow but don’t match her aesthetic. The Wife look tickles me – both the dress and the haircut are like Kes but also clearly not Kes, which is true to story (she’s a …
Although the episodes take place three seasons apart, these three looks tell an interesting story when considered together. The Older Kes we see in “Before and After”: more closely resembles Young Kes: than the older Kes we see in “Fury”: This makes sense both within story (the plot of Fury is that Kes lost her …