Cold Fire ( episode ) While attempting to make contact with the Caretaker ' s mate ( who may have the ability to send " Voyager " home ) , the crew discovers a colony of Ocampa whose representative has an interest in Kes and helping her explore her telepathic powers . Summary . Teaser . " Ten months previously , the " USS Voyager " was pulled into the Delta Quadrant by a powerful being known as the . When he died , the crew of " Voyager " were stranded 70 , 000 light years from home . Before his death , he revealed that he had a female counterpart , giving the crew hope that she may be able to return them to the Alpha Quadrant . . . " Kes receives studies in honing her telepathic abilities from Tuvok in his quarters . When Tuvok asks her to focus her mind , Kes begins hearing the thoughts of Neelix , who is getting a haircut in another part of the ship . Kes begins to giggle , much to Tuvok ' s annoyance . Tuvok ends the session and promises to give her a lesson how to reduce her emotional outbursts and better control her mind . Kes then leaves and arrives in sickbay late for her shift . The Doctor begins to gently criticize her tardiness when he is interrupted by a high - pitched , shrill noise . Kes and The Doctor open a panel to find the source of the sound – the Caretaker ' s remains shaking . Act One . Kathryn Janeway and B ' Elanna Torres are summoned to sickbay . Torres scans the Caretaker ' s remains and confirms that the remains are completely inert and dead . Janeway refuses to believe that they simply sprung to life for a few seconds without a reason , but as they discuss their options the remains starting shaking again . Torres now reads life - signs , but they ' re not coming from the remains ; rather they are reacting in response to a sporocystian energy source – another Caretaker lifeform . Remembering that the dying Caretaker had mentioned a female of its kind , Janeway wonders if she could be nearby . If so , a meeting with her could be their ticket home . Kim , on the bridge , does read lifesigns but cannot pinpoint the location exactly . Torres hypothesizes they can use the remains to locate the signal more accurately and gets to work . Meanwhile , Tuvok is concerned with the raw energy of the first Caretaker ; the " Voyager " was completely at his mercy . Tuvok and Janeway don ' t want a repeat of this occurrence . As a precaution , Tuvok begins work on a toxin that could debilitate the female lifeform without killing her if she poses a threat . Soon , another surge of energy comes and Torres eventually confirms a heading . Following the energy trail , the crew comes upon a space station that looks similar to ( except being considerably smaller than ) the Caretaker ' s array . Interestingly , it is inhabited by over two thousand Ocampa . " Voyager " hails the station , but receives no response . The station then begins firing on the ship . After a few warning shots , an Ocampan man appears and warns Janeway to move away from the station , cutting off the transmission without hearing her response . Janeway is surprised and disappointed . Act Two . Later , Janeway summons Kes to the bridge . Kes agrees to act as the crew ' s liaison to her people , and speaks to the Ocampa leader , . He then agrees to board " Voyager " . Janeway assures him that the crew comes in peace , but oddly , he doesn ' t believe her , citing the " Voyager " ' s reputation . Unbeknownst to the crew , the Caretaker ' s death and the conflict with the Kazon have been attributed to them and has become widespread belief . Janeway further tries to explain it isn ' t true , but Tanis telepathically asks Kes to meet with him privately . Tanis then expresses interest in Kes and her life up until now . He also tells Kes that the female Caretaker , Suspiria , is nearby . She has taken care of this group of Ocampa for 300 years , and has taught them to develop their psychokinetic skills and drastically extend their life span . Tanis , for example , is fourteen years old , which Kes can hardly believe , noting that a typical Ocampa lifespan is only nine years . He shows Kes a sample of the powerful abilities she has yet to tap , blooming all of the plants in the airponics bay . Kes , overwhelmed with the discovery , reports back to Janeway . She is happy for her , but also advises her to be careful when dealing with this group of Ocampa . On the station , Tanis telepathically communicates with Suspiria , who demands that he deliver " Voyager " to her . Act Three . Tanis comes back to the ship in order to share a dinner in the captain ' s mess with the crew and Kes . During , Janeway and Chakotay ask about Suspiria ' s existence , though Tanis doesn ' t know that much about how she exists , only that she ' s there when they need to communicate . He promises to take them to the meeting place so they can ask her . Tanis also invites Kes to stay with the other Ocampa , much to Neelix ' s surprise , in order to learn more about her abilities . Kes is immediately dismissive but Janeway asks her to give the decision some thought . Later , in engineering , Tuvok and The Doctor are successful at creating a way to disable the female Caretaker by creating a toxin that induces temporary paralysis . Tuvok hopes it is not needed , and so Janeway approves of them going forward . Meanwhile , Tanis begins tutoring Kes on using her telepathic skills . Kes successfully learns how to move a cup with her mind and how to boil water . Neelix watches with amazement , congratulating her , and agrees to go with Kes if she decides to leave " Voyager " and live with the Ocampans on the station . On the bridge , Tanis hails Suspiria , who will respond within 47 hours . In the meantime , Kes meets with Tuvok to show him the mental abilities she learned from Tanis . The demonstration nearly ends in disaster when Kes tries to boil water with her mind and , to her horror , inadvertently begins to heat Tuvok ' s blood as well ( his blood cell membranes ruptured when their temperature increased by 37 degrees in a matter of seconds ) . He collapses in shock , writhing in agony . Act Four . Fortunately , Tuvok recovers from the near - fatal incident , waking up in sickbay . Tuvok tells Kes not to feel remorse , but instead to use this experience to learn from her mental mistake . He also agrees to continue teaching her , much to Kes ' s relief . Tanis continues teaching Kes in the airponics bay , telling her that she can realize the full potential of her mental powers in her mind , even to the point of thinking of her non - telepathic crewmembers as " pets " . Initially Kes is reluctant , but her emotions take over as she begins to touch her plants with her mind , first by enhancing their color . Tanis instructs Kes to " bring the fire " and she burns all of the plants in the airponics bay . She ' s disturbed , since she doesn ' t want to kill anything or anyone , but Tanis doesn ' t view that as important . Tanis urges Kes to leave " Voyager " and live on the Ocampa station , where he says she will be embraced by Suspiria and surrounded by her own people . On the station , the Ocampa would hone her telepathic skills to the level where Suspiria would let her go to Exosia , a subspace layer of pure thought and energy . Kes asks for more time to think about her decision . Act Five . In engineering , the Caretaker ' s remains begin to resonate again – Suspiria has arrived . Tanis says he is going to the bridge but instead goes to the mess hall to coax Kes off the ship again . Just then , a plasmatic energy field appears in main engineering . After hearing no response from Torres over the comm system , Tuvok and a security team investigate . Tuvok informs Janeway that Suspiria is the cause of the energy field and still in main engineering . Janeway goes down to engineering to talk to Suspiria , who has appeared as a little girl . Suspiria is ready to complete her mission of revenge ( she believes Janeway killed her mate ) . Meanwhile , Kes is in the mess thinking about her choice when Tanis comes in to get her , enthusiastically to bring her to the other Ocampa . He invites her to listen to the others and to Suspiria , but then Kes becomes aware of the monstrous plot and backs away from him . In engineering , Suspiria attacks Janeway ( in addition to Torres and Tuvok , who are suspended from the ceiling ) and begins to destabilize the molecular composition of the ship . Kes attacks Tanis with her expanded psychic abilities after he mentally throws Neelix against the wall . Tanis ' pain temporarily incapacitates Suspiria . Janeway is then able to fire the toxin , subduing her . Janeway allows Suspiria and Tanis to leave the ship ( much to Suspiria ' s surprise ; she did not expect mercy ) while Kes remains with her friends on " Voyager " . Kes and Tuvok are back in his quarters relearning how to hone her telepathic abilities . Her abilities have drastically weakened with the departure of Tanis . Kes regrets her " dark impulses " that forced her to kill the plants in the airponics bay and her thoughts of leaving " Voyager " . Tuvok informs her that even Vulcans have such impulses , but that one must learn to control them rather than pretend that they do not exist . Memorable quotes . " " Your ship is known as a ship of death . " " " " Vulcans make the worst patients . " " " " Focus on the goal , not the task . " " " " You are probably feeling the emotion known as remorse . Possibly guilt . I advise you to look on this incident as a learning experience . " " " " It ' s not that easy . I almost killed you . " " " " That is correct . But you did not . Try to remember that . " " " " To be honest , I never want to see that part of myself again . " " " " To which part are you referring ? " " " " To the part of me which got pleasure from destroying the plants in the airponics bay . To the part of me that was tempted to go with Tanis . I never realized I had such dark impulses . " " " " Without the darkness , how would we recognize the light ? Do not fear your negative thoughts . They are part of you . They are a part of every living being , even Vulcans . " " " " You ? " " " " The Vulcan heart was forged out of barbarism and violence . We learned to control it , but it is still part of us . To pretend it does not exist is to create an opportunity for it to escape . " " " " Now you will know what frail , small creatures you truly are ! " " Links and references . References . airponics ; Alpha Quadrant ; bio - spectral analysis ; carbon - based lifeform ; ; Caretaker ' s array ; compass ; containment field ; convalescence ; Delta Quadrant ; dizziness ; enzyme ; Exosia ; hexi - prismatic field ; hypnagogic mental state ; hyperthermic induction ; level 3 biohazard ; lifespan ; light duty ; ; microcellular analysis ; Milky Way Galaxy ; Nacene ; nausea ; Ocampa ; Ocampa ( planet ) ; Ocampa history ; patient ; plasmatic energy ; precognitive skill ; psychokinesis ; red alert ; resuscitation ; scalp ; shampoo ; shock ; sporocystian lifeform ; sporocystian energy ; sporocystian toxin ; subspace carrier wave ; subspace layer ; subspace rupture ; Suspiria ' s array ; Tanis ' father ; tea ; yellow alert