Star Trek: Voyager — 3x10 — Warlord

Aired 1996-11-20

SpaceOpera.com rating:7

Average reader rating:4.52

Synopsis

Kes' body is taken over by a ruthless political leader.

Remarkable scenes

Kes and Neelix adversarial date.
Kes phasering people.
Tieran using Kes' body to make Resh bleed Darth Vader style.
Teiran's coup.
Kes' personality surfacing in Teiran.
Teiran discovering undercover Tuvok.
Teiran using Kes' mental powers against Tuvok.
Kes fighting Teiran's in his sleep.
Teiran beginning to slip into insanity thanks to Kes' influence.
Paris to Tuvok regarding the Vulcan neck pinch: "Some day you're gonna have to show me how to do that."

Review

I like this one, for Jennifer Lien gives a spectacular performance playing possessed Kes, just as when Keiko was possessed in DS9: The Assignment. Moreover, the character of Teiran was nicely presented. Even better a character than the rather simplistic Pah-wraith on DS9. Also in this episode's favor was Janeway; she once again shows us how awesome a diplomat she is. Overall, a rare great Kes episode.

2 reader comments

Nice little homage to characterization and visual style of Dune. Probably the best 'possession' episode in Trek, but that's not saying much…
by Adam Loewen | 09/23/2010 at 10:24 am

I think TNG: Power Play was pretty good too, with solid acting by Meaney, Sirtis and Spiner. But this one was very exciting and Lien was surprisingly awesome. I say surprisingly only because no other Kes focused episode came close to giving Lien the chance to act like this, so it was cool to see.
The only problem area I saw was that in the end, you have an infiltration assault on the palace involving Janeway, Chakotay, Neelix, and the alien prince. But no Starfleet security personnel? I doubt the ship's two senior leaders would charge in without at least a couple of other officers especially since they were outnumbered 2:1.
by Mike L. Jackson | 07/09/2017 at 1:36 pm