The father of Kes, an Ocampa she remembers as the greatest influence on her life, who is seen at her birth as she travels backwards through time.
Benaren is an Ocampa who lived in the underground city on his people's homeworld and the father of Kes. He appears in the third-season Voyager episode Before and After.
Kes speaks of him with love on more than one occasion. He died while she was still very young, and she credits him with encouraging her curiosity about the world beyond the city and with being the greatest inspiration of her life.
In Before and After, Kes is jolted back through her own lifetime by chroniton contamination. One of her last stops is the day of her birth, where Benaren stands beside her mother, Martis, and greets his newborn daughter.