#Kes' response to the Doctor also makes me wonder what she might think of Vulcan emotional control

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Kes and B'Elanna should have had a whole episode together because Kes was alone with the Doctor for like 2 seconds before she said "You're very sensitive, aren't you?" /genuine /positive instead of responding to his irritation with irritation or impatience of her own and it immediately threw him off his game. Everyone else is like "The Doctor sucks" because they're looking at him as a tool that isn't working as they expect it to but Kes goes in already looking at him like a person - before he even thinks of himself that way. What I'm saying is, Kes would see past that "B'Elanna's Scary Klingon Temper" shit so quick. Also - I think she could have like a single conversation with Tom that makes him avoid her for a solid month. They didn't argue or anything, she just got too close to the heart of it all.