DrCrowTStarwars said: Alien life spans. In this episode Kes is dying because she just turned nine and her people only live nine years. Anyone ever notice that it doesn't matter if it is nine years or nine hundred years when alien lifespans are mentions on Sci-Fi it is always very exact and every alien we meet always seems to live that exact number of years unless they get shot or something. if they are under the life span they are never in any danger of dying and once they reach that lifespan it like a switch flips and they just drop dead. it doesn't matter what kind of health they are in,they can't do a thing to prolong their lives like eating right or stuff like that,once they hit that magic number they are dead and everyone knows it.Kes and her ocampan friends were like that because the male caretaker didn't know what the fuck he was doing. Maybe something in the food she ate for a good part of her life or he did some weird genetic stuff that the female caretaker didn't. Either way there was that episode with the female caretaker and the elder ocampan guy with super powers. He showed no indication that he was just going to up and die and he was well past 9 years.
Edit "Good part of her life" meaning the time that she grew the most not the majority of it. Just to be clear.
