Jennifer Lien truly holds her own
In a challenging role, Jennifer Lien comes through as the wise-beyond-her-years child-like Kes who ends up being posessed by the conscienceness of a long-dead Warlord, Tieran.

Voyager picks up a distress call and rescues 3 Ilari people before their ship explodes. Tieran, his wife Nori and their physician are initially pretty banged up, but the Doctor and Kes get 2 of them in stable condition. Tieran, however, is beyond help and dies, despite the heroic efforts of Kes.

Kes spends most of her time comforting Nori in the loss of her husband and begins acting rudely with Neelix.

Suddenly, Kes, Nori and the other Ilari steal a Voyager shuttle and go back to Ilari. Janeway is befuddled. Did they kidnap Kes? Why? They get in touch with authorities on Ilari and discover that Tieran, a megalomaniac with an obsession with his own mortality, has found a way to move his conscienceness from one body to another via implants in his brain and hands. He likes utilizing Kes' unique telekenetic powers and uses them to wreak havoc after he murders the leader of Ilari. Nori is a bit shaken that her husband is now a young woman, but Tieran doesn't want to give up the powers she has.

Tieran (Kes) is playing dual roles - the affectionate husband of Nori, and a seductress to Tuvoc and other Ilari cabinet members. He likes having a young, healthy body with such keen mental powers and even when he is wrought with unbearable headaches, he refuses to get a new host for his conscienceness.

The Holo Doc quickly invents an aperatus that will capture the conscienceness of Tieran and Tuvok must infiltrate the Ilari government so that he can reach Kes and rescue her from Tieran.

There aren't special effects galore and this is not a pivotal episode in the series, but it does showcase Jennifer Lien's acting ability and it is an interesting show to watch.

Voyager- Episode 52
As a small sub-plot in the beginning Neelix, Paris & Kim create a hologram program, featuring bathing beauties and carribean music - Suddenly everyone is summoned to the deck for an emergency, an alien spacecraft has been encountered and Voyager transports three survivors (from a planet called Ilari) before their ship explodes, despite the doctor's and Kes' efforts one of them dies.

Kes comforts the dead man's wife (Nori), and the Ilari tell the crew that mercenaries must have destroyed their ship. Neelix becomes perplexed when Kes tells him they should spend more time apart, and everyone is surprised when Kes suddenly kills a representative from Ilari sent by the leader known as the "Autarch" and takes off with Nori and the other Ilari, Adin.

They go to military camp, where they take over and then kill the Autarch in front of his youngest son. Meanwhile "Demmas' the elder son meets with the crew where they learn that Tieran, a two hundred year old political leader (who has learned to tranfer his mind from body to body) has taken control of Kes.

Kes is pushed to the back of her mind where she battles Tieren to regain control of her body, and the Voyager crew try to figure out how to save her.

Over all an enjoyable episode! Good acting, Interesting plot. It's funny to see Kes turn suddenly into a power-crazed (paranoid!) warlord. :p

Good acting for a terrible part
Lien did a good job of acting like a madman, but I really didn't like her acting like this at all. I mean, a break from the complete niceness was good, but this was too much! I would give this 1 star instead of 2 for the story itself, but Lien's performance led me to go with 2 stars.

A Battle of Wills
This episode is one of the few that centres on Kes, the Ocampa female, who joined Voyager's crew shortly after the ship was stranded in the Delta Quadrant. Kes possesses latent telepathic abilities, a characteristic of her species, that are beginning to surface. In Warlord, the writers have created an interesting premise, one of intrigue, assumed identities and bodily possession. Despite adversity, Kes'forces her identity upon her captor Tieran, whose mind has taken possession of Kes' body. Kes is determined to thwart Tieran's takeover in a battle of wills as the crew find a way to rescue Kes. Jennifer Lien delivers a great performance as Tieran, the alien Warlord, whose personality has possession over her mind and her body.

A Kes episode!
I'll admit that I absolutely hate Kes, and was glad to see the back of her, but this is a decent episode that centres around an evil politican (aren't they all evil?) who takes over Kes' body so he can use it to get control of his homeworld. The evil Kes character is wonderfully played out, Jennifer Lien really does ooze power and authority when plaining the villian.

All in all a good episode for Kes with a new twist to the 'my bodies been taken over by an alien' storyline.