Fury

The start of this episode had some great moments. There was some interesting action and I always love a good time travel story. But the payoff absolutely wasn't there. I expected more of a conflict at the end, something more interesting to happen. Not sure to be honest. But what we got was a letdown. The episode ran out of steam and wrapped things up too quickly. This might have been better if there had been more to it... some time to breathe.. not sure. It just wasn't that great. Weak final act and that really brings down the score in my opinion. 6/10.

I loved Kess she was such a sweet and warm character, i really liked her. I knew this was coming i was intrigued and wondered what the reason for it was that she wanted to take "revenge" for but it was for such a dumb 4ss reason im not gonna go into spoilers, but if you watch this you will know what im talking about like wow what way to murder a character, i know her and Neelix are in a top hated characters list but i liked them both i know Neelix was weirdly obsessed with her and over the top jealous for no reason but i think they were both sweet. I usually don't dislike people or in this case characters because others say so it's dumb, I've seen in other shows how the destroyed a character for a last episode with them for no reason like this case.

Kes returns to Voyager to time travel back to her past self.

This episode has been hammered enough in other reviews so I'm not going over too much detail done to death by others.

I'll start with some praise. It has good performances and moves at a decent enough pace to keep you interested.

The creative choices made with the Kes character has annoyed lots of reviewers and with some justification. Personally, I was never a big fan of how they used Kes (particularly the relationship with Neelix) so it doesn't bother me as much, however they would have been better off leaving her future unknown rather than completely undermine what went before. Also, the plot is made more complicated than it needed to be and is resolved in a pretty unimaginative way.

Having it paraded alongside 'Spock's Brain' and other low points in the franchise is a bit of an overstatement for me. It's certainly below average for Voyager, but it's not that bad.

The episode brings back Kes just to completely destroy her character with the vaguest explanation that provides no real reason for why. What? I don't even care for her character, but the plot of this episode somehow annoyed me with its incredibly flawed portrayal of Kes. Not to mention, the episode throws every other time travel episode and their warnings into the trash, choosing to completely ignore anything that could have changed history during its events. Overall, this episode is one of the worst cases of Voyager writing featuring poor understanding of characters and plots full of holes and 'some kind of' Vulcan premonitions.

Since Kes was let go, it may be that the poor actress needed a paycheck. So what do you do? You contrive some plot and send her after her former crew, making up some kind of rant that needs to be addressed. She comes aboard and starts to tear the ship apart. Apparently, she has become delusional in her old age and is able to use her powers (for some reason!!!) I think a marriage with Q would have made a much better episode. Then one could throw all cause and effect into the dumpster.