Why does Kess or however it is spelled have such a faint voice? In one episode someone said she was only three years old. Is this why she is so…peculiar? Not just her voice but she is so calm I don’t know how anybody stays awake when she is around. I guess she would be good in a crisis or something or would make a excellent funeral director or psychoanalyst maybe.
Also, what exactly was that thing supposed to be that the pod ship went up on that looked like it was on a string going up into space in the episode where the Vulcan realized that Neelix was actually a valuable mebmer of the crew? It had people in it with their faces divided in two by an unnecessary ridge, and the Vulcan had to go out onto the top of the ship and look for something that Neelix had an intuition was there. I think the ship was on a cable but how could a cable go op into space?
signed, “I’ll be in my ready room,” as Captain Katherine Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager always says.
P.S. Is the Delta Quadrant like a fourth of the galaxy and we live in the Alpha? And would it be even farther away if the Voyager was in the Gamma Quaderant?
I think the character’s voice and delivery style are either what the actress is stuck with, or a choice that she has made. Yes, the character is from a very short-lived race (they grow, mature and die in under 10 years, normally).
That was a space elevator, which has a hugely long cable extending way out into space. The idea behind them is that they’re free-standing cables in geosynchronous orbits, with one end touching the earth and the other end counterbalancing the weight of the cable. How the cable could be placed is in fact a very good question…
Voyager is in the Delta quadrant (alpha, beta, gamma and delta for the four quadrants of the galaxy). The UFP’s known space takes up a chunk about the size of an apple sitting off-center on an LP record; Voyager got tossed off into the vast blankness on the other side of the center of the record.
By the way, the space elevator idea was not invented for that episode. I remember reading about it in one of Arthur Clarke’s novels some years ago, and it looks like real life scientists are thinking it could one day be possible.