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Ensign Harry Kim

They didn't even bother, instead choosing to force the senior officer in charge of helm to be a medic.

You telling me they couldn't have made the off-shift helmsman do the medic job? Or any of the literally dozens of crewmen we saw?
 
According to a web site that counted these things stringently which I can't find any more, counting Kes and Neelix, 28 poeple left or died... But I think that's also counting Hartry and Naomi from Deadlock, and possibly even Kes from Fury... Possibly Quinn?

But everytime there was a corpse half off camera in a Starfleet Uniform, they tallied the bugger
 
You telling me they couldn't have made the off-shift helmsman do the medic job? Or any of the literally dozens of crewmen we saw?

And risk giving one of those crewmen a personality? This is Star Trek: Voyager we're talking about. :p
 
According to a web site that counted these things stringently which I can't find any more, counting Kes and Neelix, 28 poeple left or died... But I think that's also counting Hartry and Naomi from Deadlock, and possibly even Kes from Fury... Possibly Quinn?

Using Memory Alpha, and excluding Quinn, Harry, the Borg from "Survival Instinct," Torres' duplicate, and Naomi, I came to the conclusion that at least 38 people died between the Starfleet and Maquis crew.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_casualties_(24th_century)
 
They didn't even bother, instead choosing to force the senior officer in charge of helm to be a medic.

You telling me they couldn't have made the off-shift helmsman do the medic job? Or any of the literally dozens of crewmen we saw?

Kes was the field medic for the first 3 years. Paris took the job after her, but it was when he was not a helm or planet side. Paris was also a trained medic, which made him the go to guy. I don't know how much training goes into being a medic in the 24th century, but Paris' ability could theoretically rival that of ant doctor alive today.

If you want to discuss poor thinking of the writers, why didn't the crew make a back of the Doctors program. One could have been easily on hand once the doctor had his mobile emitter. 2 doctors possibly more, if they could upload his programming to a holodeck while one was in sick bay helping the Doctor with the mobile emitter.
 
The writers went to great lengths to establish techno-babble explaining that they couldn't back up the doctor, presumably so that the character could be put in a little jeopardy.

However, they were more than willing to forget this premise when it suited them in "Living Witness." Of course, subsequent to that episode, the idea of a back-up program was never revisited.
 
Even if you use the excuse that it would have been cost prohibitive to re-do the CGI every week to reflect damages, there are other things they can do. Set damage, plotlines, shoot, even crew deaths. Even in NuBSG, they kept having to recruit new pilots to replace the ones that died. Its just not plausible that they would make it 7 years and only lose a handful of people. They also should have picked up tons of new crew, expatriates and curious travelers, not just Neelix and 7 of 9 (who's conveniently human anyway).
NuBSG, had hundreds of citizens from Caprica on board the fleet ships to recruit. If anything the President could always enforce a draft if needed. Voyager had no such luxury.
Everywhere Voyager went they earned a bad reputation. We also saw people are fearful of strangers in the DQ due to the hostile natives of the DQ like Kazon, Vadiians, Borg, Malon, Hirogen, Krenuim, etc. Nobody trusts anybody in that region of space. They mention how "Federation" just sounds like another conquering force. Mostly refugees (Counterpoint, Survival Instinct, the Borg kids) wanted passage on it. Everybody else we meet in the DQ were con. artists or theives. We saw Janeway ask, they all declined.

It's plausible to loose a only a handful of people if nearly everything you encounter ends in a reset. Half the the events we witnessed on Voyager never happened. Half the series is alternate timelines and/or reset eps.
 
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Half the series was an alternate timeline or a reset? I don't much care for Star Trek: Voyager, but even I'm willing to admit that's a ridiculous exaggeration.
 
Half the series was an alternate timeline or a reset? I don't much care for Star Trek: Voyager, but even I'm willing to admit that's a ridiculous exaggeration.
It's meant to be to draw attention to the fact the the most traumatic events and high crew death took place in reset/alternate time line eps.
 
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Well that is a possibility with Caretaker-Fury being undone in the latter episode...maybe...
Factor in "YOH", "Timeless" "Before & After", "Deadlock"....

Braxton and Starfleet don't remember "Future's End"
Janeway & Seven won't remember events of "Relitivity"
Everts of "Shattered" are erased.
 
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Half the series was an alternate timeline or a reset? I don't much care for Star Trek: Voyager, but even I'm willing to admit that's a ridiculous exaggeration.

Fury.

In season 6 they go back to inbetween episode 5 and 6 or season one, and reset the time line.

That fudged 130 episodes of Voyager.

130 episodes of Voyager happened differently or didn't happen at all from the perspective of the crew we followed after Fury.

That means that just because of Fury that 76 percent of Voyager was reset.

Or/and...

It took Captain Janeway 21 years to get home. Admiral janeway folded back ten years of her feet up at home and two thirds of her historic ground breaking trip home because she's a monster.

%66.6666 of Voyager reset because of...

Which only makes it mostly season 7 (plus 5 episodes in season 1, and 3 episodes in season 6.) that actually happened, which maths out that barely 1/21st of Voyagers total mission wasn't done over by a do-over.

That's 95 percent (with rounding) of Voyager that bent over for Chronos to temporally diddle with their lives.

Oh.

Year of Hell not happening cancels out Season Seven which did happen.

21/21sts.

%100 of Voyager was reset .
 
About Ensign Harry Kim: Is anyone at Trek BBS upset he survived the cut in "Scorpion" and they wrote off Kes instead? I read last night online that Harry was meant to be killed off in said episode to make room for Seven of Nine. But after a People article applauding him, TPTB decided to spare him and get rid of Kes?
 
About Ensign Harry Kim: Is anyone at Trek BBS upset he survived the cut in "Scorpion" and they wrote off Kes instead? I read last night online that Harry was meant to be killed off in said episode to make room for Seven of Nine. But after a People article applauding him, TPTB decided to spare him and get rid of Kes?
Yes.
 
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