Harry Kim in "Resolutions"

[JanineSal]

I just finished watching the late Season 2 episode, "Resolutions". Frankly, it's not a favorite of mine. And quite frankly, I think it painted Harry Kim at his worst - a childish and stubborn man who was unable to deal with change. But what really irritated me about this episode is that Tuvok was portrayed as someone who was in the wrong, when it was really Kim and some of the other crewmen. Lisa Klink, the episode's writer, obviously dislikes Vulcans.

Now I wonder. What if both Janeway and Chakotay had ended up dead? Would Harry try to force Tuvok to contact some hostile aliens in order to find a way to bring them back from the dead?

 

[Caprica_Six]

I don't think it painted Tuvok in a bad light actually. He came off looking like he would make an exceptional captain. I think the thing the Tuvok was missing that Kes brought up was not so much how dangerous it was to contact the vidians but that Tuvok wasn't even willing to consider it. It was more about the different ways people deal with loss and how some times you need to go beyond yourself and what you think is right or logical and look at it from the perspective of someone else who maybe more sensitive or in touch with their emotions.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

Though, to be fair, Harry was acting 16 years old and treating the command team like they were his parents.

I think the logical thing to do would have been to find the Vidiians much earlier and then returned back. It would have saved a lot of head ache. The crew was so interdependent on each other and so super dependent on the command team that there's no way the ship would have remained whole with Tuvok in charge. This is not because he was Vulcan, but because the crew was painted as a family. Families don't stay together when the uncle takes over after the parents die unless that uncle understands the sensitive nature of everyone's frayed emotions. There's no way Tuvok could understand that.

 

[scorpius1701]

Yeah i hate it when crew members are acting irrationally and the show asks us to feel that theyre the good guys. Same thing happened in that ep where harry falls in love with the hologram whos actually an alien and gets in Tuvok's face when theyre talking together.

 

[Sito_Jaxa]

Harry could act like a baby sometimes- this is one of many examples. It was luck that stopped the crew from getting killed by the Viidians. I agreed with Tuvok, though the episode didn't paint him in the best light.

 

[JanineSal]

Yeah i hate it when crew members are acting irrationally and the show asks us to feel that theyre the good guys.

It's normal for people to act irrationally. If writers had their characters acting rationally or logical all of the time, they would be guilty of bad writing.

But I am annoyed that while writer Lisa Klink had taken Tuvok to task for his alleged "insensitivity" toward the crew and Harry was not. I suspect that this has more to do with TREK's anti-Vulcan stance that has been prevalent since Roddenberry's death. I saw some of it on TNG and VOY. And I saw A LOT of this on DS9 and ENT.