John Kelly

Species:	Human
Rank:	Lieutenant
Occupation:	Astronaut
Status:	Deceased
Died:	October 29, 2032
Played by:	Phil Morris

Lieutenant John Mark Kelly was the commander of the Ares IV mission to Mars in 2032. He disappeared on October 19, along with the command module in which he was orbiting the planet, while the other two crew members were on the planet's surface.

USS Voyager subsequently discovered the command module, along with Kelly's body, inside a graviton ellipse in the Delta Quadrant in 2376. Accessing the logs, they learned, much to their surprise, that Kelly had lived for several days after being caught in the ellipse, even seeing an alien ship and learning that Humans were not alone in the universe before he died. Kelly was given a full military funeral aboard Voyager, and is widely regarded as one of the true pioneers of manned space exploration, a fact which was even acknowledged by Seven of Nine, who had initially been skeptical of the value in his recovery.

Kelly was a fan of the New York Yankees baseball team, and regretted he would never know who won the World Series in 2032. At his funeral service, Seven walked over to his coffin and whispered, "the Yankees... in six games." (VOY: "One Small Step")