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Kelis is a version of Kelis from the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Muse" (6x22) .

Kelis, a playwright, seeks to use his plays as a way to prevent war between rival factions on his home planet.

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Star trek's new "non-linear" threat confirms 1 weapon can damage the entire timeline.

Kahless' crusade against the gods in IDW's Star Trek comics has had dire effects on the universe, and now the entire timeline may be at risk too.

• Star Trek #19, by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Megan Levens, shows the true, horrifying extent of the damage Kahless' crusade against the gods has caused.
• Kahless' rampage threatens not only the universe, but the entire timeline as well.
• Finally, Kahless' campaign could lead to the destruction of the multiverse too.

Kahless’ crusade against the galaxy’s god-like beings has been a key part of IDW’s revitalized line of Star Trek comics, and now the damage he has done could threaten the entire timeline. In Star Trek #19, T’Lir, the enigmatic Vulcan who is revealed to be Organian, reveals just how much damage Kahless has caused to existence. Thanks to Kahless, time itself could come unraveled.

Star Trek #19 is written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Megan Levens. In the Theseus’ Ready Room, T’Lir briefs Captain Sisko and the crew on what happened to their fellow Organians. They tell Sisko that Kahless’ weapon has “tore at the very fabric of space-time.” T’Lir then goes on to reveal that the damage Kahless did was “non-linear” and it killed the Organians over 20 years prior.

T’Lir uses this as part of their case to convince Sisko to travel to the Pleroma, the newly revealed dimension of the gods.

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In late 2022, IDW gave their Star Trek comics a shot in the arm, creating an epic, multi-year, multi-title story. The seeds were planted in Star Trek #400, when a mysterious force killed Gary Mitchell. The Bajoran Prophets sent Benjamin Sisko back to stop whoever was behind the slaughter of god-like beings. It was revealed to be the cloned Klingon Emperor Kahless. Seeking to fulfill the promise of his namesake, who allegedly slaughtered the Klingon gods, Kahless embarks on a campaign of terror. Both the Crystalline Entities and the Organians fell to Kahless.

It was made clear from the get-go that Kahless’ actions had the potential to seriously destroy the fabric of the universe. Both T’Lir and Spock arrive at this conclusion. While they were believed by Sisko and Starfleet, the exact amount of damage Kahless was causing was unknown. The gods Kahless was fighting were crucial to the smooth functioning of the universe, and now Kahless has thrown that into disarray. Sisko, T’Lir and the Theseus must now travel to the Pleroma to set things right. Kahless is still on the loose, and the Pleroma could be his next target.

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It is crucial that Sisko and company stop Kahless, because now it seems that the destruction he has wrought is spreading through the timeline. Kahless’ actions have rippled across the time stream, killing the Organians and others like them. Kahless’ actions not only threaten the prime Star Trek universe, but the entire multiverse as well. In a recent interview with ScreenRant , writers Lanzing and Kelly revealed “The Pleroma” storyline sets up even bigger things for the title. Kahless posing a threat to the entire Star Trek multiverse would be the perfect capstone for the series.

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• Adaptational Villainy : Kelis' play portrays Seven not as a reformed former Borg drone, but as the Borg's secret Queen whose Heel–Face Turn was simply a ruse intended to allow her onboard Voyager as the Collective's double agent.
• All Part of the Show : When B'Elanna herself steps onto the stage, Lanya denounces her to everyone as an Eternal. Some quick improv by Chorus Guy convinces the Autarch of this trope, and no one dares contradict him.
• Ancient Astronauts : It's implied Eternals are spacefaring aliens who've visited the planet in the past. Kelis says they have "The power to make the ground open up and the sky to fall — all the strange events sung by the ancient poets." Certainly Voyager can make the ground open with a photon torpedo or phaser volley, and the sky fall by having a main character take out a shuttlecraft on a routine mission near a Conveniently Close Planet .
• An Aesop : Kelis knows what message he wants to send; the problem is how to put it in a form that will make his ruler take it to heart .
• And the Adventure Continues : At the end of the episode B'Elanna beams up to Voyager in front of the astonished audience, and Kelis gives the Final Speech of his play. Kelis: These stories will continue for as long as we have the breath to tell them, and as long as our patrons remain wise and compassionate. And Voyager will continue on her journey to the gleaming cities of Earth where peace reigns, and hatred has no home.
• Aside Comment : In the play, Seven of Nine does this for The Reveal that she's actually the Queen of the Borg , plotting revenge against Captain Janeway. "Say nothing, or you too will be assimilated ." Once she leaves the stage Captain Janeway does the same, telling the audience she knows Seven's true identity and is planning a Batman Gambit . "Say nothing, or I will lose my advantage…and my ship as well."
• Beneath the Mask : Captain Janeway looks distraught when it appears Harry Kim didn't survive.
• Big Damn Heroes : After hiking 200 kilometers across country, Harry turns up with the transmitter component B'Elanna needs to let Voyager know where they are. B'Elanna: Harry Kim saves the day. Just the ending I was looking for.
• But Now I Must Go : In the final scene of his play, Kelis asks B'Elanna (the real one) to stay and continue to be his muse. B'Elanna replies that Voyager needs her, and he has all the inspiration he needs.
• Call-Back : To "Worst Case Scenario" with its arguments over the writing process and Leaning on the Fourth Wall humor.
• Lanya denounces B'Elanna as an Eternal – no one believes her.
• According to Kelis' first play, Harry advised B'Elanna to turn back to Voyager on hitting the subspace eddies, but she pressed on regardless.
• Chief Engineer Crash : Headstrong B'Elanna Torres wrecks the Delta Flyer .
• Composite Character : In-Universe . The play depicts Seven as the Borg Queen.
• Conveniently Close Planet : Justified; B'Elanna and Harry were searching for dilithium, and there's a deposit on the world where she crashes.
• Cool Old Guy : The unnamed old guy who leads the Chorus; even a real Eternal ascending to the heavens in front of him doesn't throw off his ability to Improv !
• Denser and Wackier : The Voyager crew are mythologized as hammy, horny Greek gods!
• Stealth Pun : Kelis finds B'Elanna in the wreck of the Delta Flyer and believes her to be an Eternal, which, in effect, makes her a "god from the machine."
• Discussed Trope : In-Universe ; Kelis gets into an argument with one of his older cast members, who doesn't like the 'tricks' playwrights use to move their audience as opposed to finding the truth of the story.
• When one realizes that this was writer Joe Menosky's final Voyager script, one better realizes the correlation between the writer in the script, and the writers in the show's Writer's Room .
• Kelis arguing with an actor about his portrayal of Tuvok resembles a Paramount director trying to educate an actor who's never watched Star Trek on how to portray a Vulcan.
• The first chapter shows B'Elanna dying on the shore after her shipwreck. Executive Meddling forces Kelis to bring back the character (who fortunately hasn't died on him after all), but when the real B'Elanna won't provide a climatic ending… Kelis: B'Elanna Torres dies tragically. B'Elanna: (smiling) You wouldn't dare.
• When Kelis still can't think of an ending by performance time, he sends his muse a note: "Without inspiration, B'Elanna Torres will perish." B'Elanna turns up in time to provide the dramatic yet Happy Ending he wanted.
• Dramatic Necklace Removal : The Autarch casually plucks a jewel from his Hot Consort and tosses it to Kelis as a reward for his first play.
• Dramatic Thunder : B'Elanna wants Kelis to get dilithium from the Autarch's hunting grounds. As he'd be executed if found there, Kelis is understandably reluctant. At that moment a coincidental roll of thunder sounds. Kelis' eyes widen as he says, "Did you...?" B'Elanna plays it beautifully, leaning forward and saying with menace, " Don't get caught."
• Escape Pod : There's one on the Delta Flyer (as established two episodes before in " Good Shepherd "), but only with the resources to survive ten days — Janeway only discovers Harry had to eject ten days after this happened. We later find that Harry followed the Flyer 's warp trail, rather than try to get back to Voyager .
• Faceless Goons : The Autarch has two helmeted bodyguards.
• Flanderization : The protagonists in Kelis' play are all defined by a single characteristic. Headstrong B'Elanna Torres , Young Harry Kim , Logical Tuvok , Captain Janeway versus Seven of Nine aka the Queen of the Borg . This fits with the classic Greek play vibe of the episode, e.g. "Wise Penelope" from The Odyssey .
• Foreshadowing : Kelis complains of the lack of drama in his play. "Where is the mistaken identity, the discovery, the sudden reversal? Mistaken identity — a character who is someone else. Discovery — the moment when that identity is revealed. Reversal — a situation that turns from good to bad in a blink of an eye." All of these events happen to Kelis and B'Elanna.
• Giant Wall of Watery Doom Chorus: A wave as high as a mountain struck the Delta Flyer...
• God Guise : Downplayed in that the crew inspire a play as opposed to a religion. The locals view of Eternals is of powerful beings to be wary of, rather than gods to be worshipped. For instance, Kelis warns B'Elanna that if the Autarch captures her, he will force her to fight his enemies .
• The Great Repair : B'Elanna can't fix the Delta Flyer, but she does succeed in making a transmitter.
• Greek Chorus : In their traditional role as The Narrator .
• Green-Eyed Monster : Lanya walks off in a huff when Kelis introduces B'Elanna as another poet. When she discovers the truth she's even more upset; how can she compete with an Eternal , who might well be the very B'Elanna Torres her lover is obsessed over? She begs B'Elanna to leave and threatens to expose her if she turns up at the performance.
• Ice Queen : Lanya has trouble enacting Seven's haughty demeanour. Kelis: No, no, no, no! Seven of Nine is a Borg — the scourge of the Eternals. You're portraying her like a shy bride on her wedding night!
• Infinite Supplies : Averted; Delta Flyer crashes, but is presumably recovered as always. The mission itself was a search for dilithium.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall : The entire episode is this for Voyager's writers, perhaps even Star Trek writing as a whole.
• The Men First : In Kelis' first play, Headstrong B'Elanna Torres orders Young Harry Kim to Abandon Ship while she pilots the Delta Flyer on the verge of a warp core breach. He refuses, saying " We die together. " B'Elanna replies, "No one is going to die — go!"
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• Mr. Fixit : Lampshaded by B'Elanna. "I'm an engineer — I fix things." She finds herself unable to repair the Flyer , however — the alloy component Kelis tries to have made using local craftsmen has too many impurities. Then Harry turns up with an emergency transmitter, enabling her to construct a rudimentary Subspace Ansible .
• The Muse : B'Elanna for Kelis.
• Muse Abuse : Seven of Nine (whom B'Elanna always finds annoying) is the villain of the play, seducing Tom Paris and plotting to destroy Captain Janeway. In fairness, B'Elanna isn't taking the play very seriously and much of this is likely Kelis's idea for Rule of Drama .
• The Needless : After forgoing sleep to search for their missing crewman (he is, after all, Vulcan, and can go for weeks without sleep ), Tuvok falls asleep on the bridge, snoring loudly.
• Not So Above It All : B'Elanna gradually gets swept up in Kelis' enthusiasm, delaying her own rescue to provide him with the dramatic ending he wanted.
• Obscured Special Effects : When B'Elanna walks on stage and announces that she's going to ascend in a dazzling blaze of light , the elderly Chorus Guy quickly improvs the line "On a far away snow-covered peak", no doubt with this trope in mind.

• Overworked Sleep : Tuvok, you really should've had a nap or something. Then you wouldn't be falling asleep in front of the crew, in the captain's chair.
• Paper-Thin Disguise : Kelis introduces B'Elanna as a poet from across the Eastern sea, even though she's got a different kind of forehead . Presumably, his fellow performers just assume everyone from the mysterious East looks like that .
• The Power of Love : Kelis thinks that by filling the play with romance, his patron's heart will be filled with love instead of anger. B'Elanna points out that it's not that simple — from the Autarch's point of view, he's surrounded by hostile enemies, so love is the last thing on his mind. Coming from one half of Voyager 's Official Couple , this might not be convincing to fans, but it does apply to Captain Janeway , who deals with a life-threatening crisis every week .
• Prime Directive B'Elanna: What exactly do you want to know? Kelis: Everything. B'Elanna: It's not possible. We Eternals have our rules. We can't just... give everything away.
• Reaction Shot : The expressions shown by the Autarch as he watches the play show it is making an impact, but as everyone knows, a bad ending could still ruin everything.
• Self-Insert Fic : The Autarch assumes this is why Kelis had himself finding a dying B'Elanna after she crashed.
• Shipper On Stage : Kelis proudly shows off Voyager 's first on-screen J/C Fan Fic . Tanis-Janeway: Chakotay, why must I be denied what every other female officer on this ship can have? Jero-Chakotay: Captain? Tanis-Janeway: The privilege of your touch. Cue Big Damn Kiss . B'Elanna gives Kelis a WTF? look.
• The Show Must Go Wrong : By performance time, Kelis still hasn't thought up an ending to his play and his patron turns up in foul mood. When B'Elanna arrives to save the show, his jealous lover publicly denounces her to his patron.
• Space Is an Ocean : Literally, as a poet who doesn't even know about Outer Space tries to put what he's heard into Layman's Terms his audience can understand. The Delta Flyer becomes a sailing vessel swamped by a huge wave. Voyager is a great ship searching for the beautiful island of Earth, after being blown off course by a storm.
• Spear Over Head : In the play's climax, Captain Janeway refuses to kill the Queen of the Borg, throwing aside her spear for a Patrick Stewart Speech on the futility of their Cycle of Revenge .
• The Stoic : Kelis gets into an argument with Jero, who portrays Logical Tuvok shedding a tear over his absent friends . Kelis: The land of Vulcan has no laughter, and it has no tears. It is a very quiet place. Calm, just like Tuvok. Jero: I can't believe that. Kelis: You don't have to, just don't cry. Jero: The audience won't believe it either. They'll either think Tuvok is an unfeeling monster, or that I am a bad performer. Kelis: They'll realise that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking. Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!
• Swiss-Cheese Security : Kelis is able to play the Captain's Log . Admittedly, the Flyer is smashed up, damaging who-knows-what security systems, and the log was probably running when the shuttle crashed.
• Tastes Like Friendship : B'Elanna's initial response to Kelis' desire for inspiration is to drive him away at phaser point. But knowing B'Elanna hasn't eaten for a while, he just returns the next day with some berries that break down her resistance. Kelis: Tell me about Earth. B'Elanna: I have to sing for my supper, huh? Kelis: We all do, in one way or another.
• A Threesome Is Hot : But not hot enough; B'Elanna tells Kelis he'll have to do better than Harry kissing the Delaney sisters to win his patron over.
• The Unreveal : Kelis explicitly hoped that his play would convince the Autarch to avoid a war(which is likely at least part of the reason B'Elanna decided to help save the play). While the Autarch does seem moved by the performance, the episode ends as soon as the play does, and we never find out whether it worked.
• Waking Non Sequitur : Paris: (whispering to Tuvok, asleep in the captain's chair) Tuvok. Tuvok. Tuvok: (startled awake) As you were!
• Worst Aid : Kelis cuts B'Elanna to release the heat of her fever. She insists he let her use a dermal regenerator instead.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants : In-Universe . Kelis has only one week to write and perform a play that will please his patron. By the time of performance, he doesn't have an ending, and his actors point out that they won't have time to learn it anyway.
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V'Kelis was a Romulan , the mate of Takris .

In the year 2156 , Takris was killed by the Haakonans before he could see V'Kelis again. ( ENT - The Romulan War novel : Beneath the Raptor's Wing )

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An alien playwright discovers B'Elanna Torres, crash landed in the Delta Flier, and uses her and her logs as story material to please his patron. An alien playwright discovers B'Elanna Torres, crash landed in the Delta Flier, and uses her and her logs as story material to please his patron. An alien playwright discovers B'Elanna Torres, crash landed in the Delta Flier, and uses her and her logs as story material to please his patron.

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• Goofs The Poet writes a note to be handed off to B'Elanna. Although her universal translator is what makes the alien's language understandable, there is no reason to believe that she should be capable of reading their written language.

B'Elanna Torres : Harry, have you ever inspired anybody?

Harry Kim : That's kind of a strange question.

B'Elanna Torres : It's been a strange couple of weeks.

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The Kelvans were an intelligent and rigidly disciplined non-humanoid species from the planet Kelva , located in the Andromeda Galaxy , and masters of the Kelvan Empire . Only a few Kelvans were known to have traveled to the Milky Way Galaxy .

• 1 Physiology and culture
• 2 Preemptive strike
• 3 Later encounters
• 4.1 Body shells
• 4.2 Field projection
• 4.3 Intergalactic spaceflight
• 5 List of known Kelvans
• 6 Appearances
• 7 External link

Physiology and culture [ ]

Described by Spock as "immense beings", Kelvans were in one form at least twice the size of an adult Klingon male. ( DS9 : " Time's Orphan ") Their complex minds possessed sufficient discipline to operate each of their hundred tentacle-like limbs independently, but their superior intellectual capacity developed without emotions and human-like sensory perceptions.

Kelvans believed in their innate superiority, and deemed it the fate of lesser species to be conquered and ruled. Ruthless but practical, their goals were expressed in plain, civil terms lacking any indication of blood-thirst. As long as the obedience demanded by their code of honor was upheld, their conquered subjects were treated with appropriate respect and given some bounded latitude. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ")

Preemptive strike [ ]

Montgomery Scott introduces Tomar to drinking

Centuries ago, the Kelvans became aware of dangerously rising radiation levels in their home galaxy, a crisis expected to make their galaxy uninhabitable by their species within ten thousand years. The Kelvan Empire dispatched a wave of swift, multi-generational starships to the neighboring galaxies. The explorer crews (and their descendants) were ordered to search for new territories and to report on their suitability for conquest and occupation.

One Kelvan starship left Andromeda sometime in the 1960s , and reached the Milky Way Galaxy in 2268 . The Kelvans were not prepared for the galactic barrier that surrounded their destination, and their ship was destroyed in the crossing. Rojan and four others made it by life craft to a safe, class M planet but found existence in the great outdoors unnerving. The Kelvans adopted the humanoid forms common to our galaxy, which would likely be more compatible with potential transportation than their Andromedan forms.

With a false distress call , Rojan lured and quickly captured Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise . Rojan's crew modified the Enterprise with Kelvan technology, permitting the starship to penetrate the galactic barrier, and began the long return voyage to Kelva.

Once the Barrier was successfully breached, Kirk and his senior officers began a systematic subversion of the Kelvans' mission by exploiting their weaknesses: their social naiveté and inexperience with the new sensations offered by their new humanoid bodies. Kirk convinced Rojan that his new life as a humanoid could be experienced to the fullest on a world in the Federation , and a robotic envoy to Andromeda could fulfill his mission by delivering a peace proposal. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ")

Later encounters [ ]

By the 24th century , there had been at least one additional encounter with Kelvans by Starfleet personnel. In 2374 , a frustrated Lieutenant Commander Worf told Jadzia Dax that he had once fought Kelvans twice his size, yet he was unable to put young Kirayoshi O'Brien to sleep. ( DS9 : " Time's Orphan ") The following year , Ezri Dax recalled that conversation between Worf and Jadzia when she visited his quarters , after learning of his possible death, following the destruction of his ship, the IKS Koraga , near the Badlands . ( DS9 : " Penumbra ")

Science and technology [ ]

Kelvan belt device

"distilled" solids

central field projector

The various technologies used by explorers from the Kelvan Empire in their first contact with the Federation in 2268 were advanced far beyond the Federation's abilities of the period. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ")

Body shells [ ]

Kelvan science allowed their explorers to abandon their native physical forms in favor of new bodies more appropriate to local environments. Rojan described the transference process as "encasing" themselves in "humanoid shells". The process was complete enough to pass naked-eye observation, as well as fundamentally shifting Kelvan personalities toward a humanoid perspective as they experienced life with radically different physical senses. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ")

Field projection [ ]

Kelvans carried a device (worn on belts around their waist in their humanoid form) that served as a weapon, defense, and instrument of obedience. With a touch, a Kelvan could immobilize multiple targets with a neural field that selectively neutralized nerve impulses to their voluntary muscles .

With similar ease, the devices were capable of a far more drastic change to a target. The device could instantly "distill" a lifeform, suspending animation and encoding the essence of the target's physical form and personality into a compact and lightweight (the size of a Human fist) dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solid, composed of the target's base minerals. The person could be reconstituted from their solid state at any time, as long as the solid remained intact.

The individual devices worn by a team of Kelvans functioned in tandem with a central field projector of extensive range. Three Kelvans with belt devices boarded and easily captured the Enterprise in orbit, while their central projector radiated from the planet surface. The projector was shielded by a metallic substance, similar to diburnium , but considerably more dense and impervious to phaser fire. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ")

Intergalactic spaceflight [ ]

Kelvan multi-generational starships were capable of sustained operations and life support across multiple millions of light years , through the voids between galaxies that offered no chance of respite at friendly starbases or planets . Their faster-than-light propulsion systems permitted the crossing in a reasonable time, spanning only a few Kelvan generations, while a Constitution -class starship running at maximum warp would take thousands of years to complete the journey. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ")

A century following first contact with the Kelvans, Starfleet had apparently matched their propulsion technology, as it was stated that a Galaxy -class starship, traveling from Triangulum to the Milky Way Galaxy, could make the voyage in three hundred years, the same amount of time that it took the Kelvans to reach the Milky Way from Andromeda. ( TNG : " Where No One Has Gone Before ")

Their engineering skills allowed them to quickly modify comparatively primitive and alien technologies, making them perform on par with their own. Kelvan upgrades to the USS Enterprise permitted the ship to pass through the negative energy of the galactic barrier unharmed, and was expected to arrive in Kelvan space only three hundred years after departure. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ")

List of known Kelvans [ ]

Drea, a female Kelvan

• Rojan – leader of Kelvan Milky Way expedition
• Kelinda – member of expedition and Rojan's love interest
• Hanar – Rojan's lieutenant and confidant
• Tomar – expedition engineer and drinking enthusiast
• Drea – expedition flight controller

Appearances [ ]

• TOS : " By Any Other Name "

External link [ ]

• Kelvan at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works