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I find it very hard to believe that someone who was 'brutally' fired", would return to the show to do 'Fury' and also say the following comments, taken from THIS interview with Lien herself:

Jennifer admitted that it was very exciting to come back and commented on how she dealt with returning to a show that she used to appear on a weekly basis. "Things pretty much still seem the same here," she commented. "It just feels like [I've been gone] a day. It doesn't feel like any time has passed, whereas in my own personal life, time has passed and I can definitely feel that."

"It's not a typical job," she states, "It's an honor. There's a difference. It was very nice of them to ask me back."

Now for someone who was "brutally fired", you would hardly think, Lien would return and work Rick Bermann and Brannon Braga who, if the rumours we here are true, treated her so "shabbishly":

On returning to the show, Jennifer was concerned how Kes would be brought back. Executive Producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga came up with a story line that brought the character back, but with a different angle. It was the task of staff writers Bryan Fuller and Michael Taylor to write the teleplay from the story idea. Jennifer was adamant that the fate of Kes was handled with great care, so some of the plot line was changed. "I had a discussion with the writers about the original script and we all came to a conclusion that we were happy with," she states with a sigh of relief!

The attitude in the interview with Lien about returning as Kes in the sixth season episode 'Fury', doesn't sound like that of a person who was treated with no respect and just 'fired' from Voyager, it seems that she was quite happy with leaving - to star in movies such 'American History X' and 'Hoofboy', not to mention starting a university course.

Plus, although not official, it was believed that Garratt Wang, Jennifer Lien and Ethan Phillips all signed on with 3-Year contracts at the beginning of Voyager, to be renewed at the end of Season three, and this further adds weight to the fact that Lien most probably left agreeingly to pursue other matters in her life(she was recently married and had a baby also).

There is abolsutely no proof that Lien was "brutally fired" or "tossed aside", even so, why would a person treated like that return to Voyager, take part in ideas for the script of 'Fury' and be so happy to return to the behind-the-scenes Voyager 'family' who showed her so much disrespect?

I think rumour should remain just that.. rumour