"Remember"-shouldn't Kes had been the main character?

[Lynx]

I re-watched Remember yesterday. A great episode about a genocide which was covered up by the authorities on the planet.

B'Elanna Torres is the one who reveals the hidden secrets with some telepathic help from one of the Enarans.

But wouldn't Kes had been more receptive to the Enaran's telepathy? Wouldn't she had been the one who they would have contacted in the first place?

Imagine kes as the main character instead of B'Elanna. I think that would have worked fine too, maybe even better.

 

[Mage]

I never really liked the character of Kes that much, and not the biggest fan of Lien as an actress.
The only time she really impressed me on Voyager was in Warlord.
Having said that, there is a certain logic to your idea of Kes being more receptive, yes.

 

[Lynx]

The writers and producers claimed that they couldn't come up with stories for Kes.But here, when they had the opportunity to do so, they wasted it.


OK, Torres is great as the main character here but Torres was probably the least receptive to alien telepathy. So why they didn't use Kes in this episode was a mistake.

 

[BohandiAnsoid]

Or at least have Kes support B'anna through the episode. Kes and B'Elanna rarely interact but, when they do, it is almost always nice (in Seasons 1 - 3, that is...).