Anika Dane, MALS
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 …
Voyager’s bright blue medical gowns are my favorite Federation medical gowns by far but they are standard issue (and no one looks better in them than Seska). And this purple sheet is just not an outfit. It is the absence of clothing. In this case there is a perfectly reasonable, and in fact wonderful, reason …
Kes is introduced as a hostage. A victim. A bruised waif. A damsel in distress who Neelix tricks Captain Janeway into saving, which sets up the Kazon enemy arc that lasts into season three. Some hours later Janeway destroys the Caretaker’s array (stranding them all in the Delta Quadrant) specifically to save the Ocampa, a …