R.I.P. Harry Kim 2372

[Lynx]

Honestly, I don't think that Kim was that bad.

The character did have some potential. Unfortunately it was never used. He ended up being "young, green Ensign Kim" for most of the show and the "whipping boy" as well.

Compare that to the Voyager books where Kim is actually doing something in most of them.

Unfortunately, for some strange reason he ends up in sickbay in many of those but that's another story.

As for Chakotay, he was a character with great potential who was sadly wasted in the later seasons. I can really understand Beltran's frustration with the writers and producers.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Kim can't have been green. Walton's weren't as green as they made him.

The academy is what a 4 year course? The math suggests that Spock in the original pilot was a cadet and Nog saw plenty of action as a cadet since their education involves practical assignment... So it might have been his first assignemnt on Voyager but he'd had a couple years as... Like death, during the pregnancy process, Women generally uncontrolably empty their bowels... Kim remembers being born. His first memory was of being pooped on, and then he has a clear memory of events for the rest of his life from that point. He has perhaps a decade more memories and accessible experience than any one else his age... IE Wesley (they were both born in 2349. How's that for perspective?).

Harry Kim should have been relatively older than most everyone because he hadn't forgotten every waking second like "normal" people who's sketchy memories begin around the age of 5, but only cover the high points and a brief scattering of moments after that till decent book keeping can be put into effect.

 

[C.E.S.]

The wise philosopher Rene Descartes once said, "I think, therefore I am." Why? He believed the only way to find certainty was to doubt everything... including the existence of the entire external world.

In that regard, I doubt that Harry Kim ever existed anyway.

 

[Brolan]

He was sucked out into space during a Vidiian attack.

From the TNG episode "The Naked Now" -

Riker: "It's as if they were sucked out into space."
Data: "Correction; that's blown out."

If they are arguing between the universe either sucking or blowing, I think they are both right.

 

[UnknownSample]

I've thought about dead original Harry and handy Replacement Harry occasionally, too. I wrote a Voyager parody (called "Pow, Voyager!"... I like to kill everyone at the end of all parodies if I can manage it) where everyone else on the Bridge starts talking about Harry in the third person as if he's not standing right there, which he is.... some ask, whatever happened to that Harry Kim, wasn't he blown out into space? Harry keeps reminding people that he's standing in the room... Janeway looks around, says oh look, it's the replacement Harry Kim! It's almost like having Harry right here in the room with us!

Harry ends up collapsed on the floor in a fetal position at the end... no the very end is when Naomi Wildman presses Engineer's new big red Self-Destruct button.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I rewrote Fury yarns ago and Namoi screams during an argument with Sam :You're not even my real mother!"

Does anyone think Daniel Byrd would have gotten them home faster by being too "Not a frakking idiot" as to fall for none of the shit that perplexed harry Kim's life? When was Necrophilia really a life choice?

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

CHAKOTAY 2: We analysed the sensor logs from our trip through the plasma cloud. We couldn't find anything unusual until we ran a quantum-level analysis. Remember that subspace turbulence we hit just before we left the cloud?
JANEWAY 2: Yes.
CHAKOTAY 2: Well, watch what happens.
KIM 2: At first, we thought it was a sensor aberration, but they were in perfect calibration at the time.
TORRES 2: So I ran a multi-spectral analysis on the subspace turbulence. It was more than just turbulence. It was some kind of divergence field. And the moment we passed through it, all of our sensor readings doubled. Mass, energy output, bio- signatures, everything. Every particle of matter on this ship seems to have been duplicated in that instant.
JANEWAY 2: So where is the other ship?
KIM 2: As strange as it sounds, Captain, according to these readings, another Voyager's right here, right now, occupying the same point in space-time we are.
JANEWAY 2: Quantum theorists at Kent State University ran an experiment in which a single particle of matter was duplicated using a divergence of subspace fields, a spatial scission.

at all the technobabble in this exchange. Dear lord the Voyager writers were at times, extraordinarily shitty.

 

[UnknownSample]

As were the Bolians.