Kes Kes is a female alien from the Ocampa-species, a type of alien never before seen in the Star Trek universe. She is the delicate, beautiful, young lover of Neelix, and although she appears as a 20 year-old in human years, Kes is actually a two-year-old Ocampa (a species with a life span of only nine years). She is inquisitive and eager to absorb knowledge about the Voyager and her fascinating crew. Kes has strange extrasensory powers that have been dormant in her species after generations of disuse.