If Legacy is ever made -- if -- then I hope we get to see Ensign (not a typo!) Kim.
Re-Watching VOY
- Thread starter Lord Garth
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Thanks to the multiverse you can both get your Kims.
While I understand why writers like to use the crutch of the multiverse to throw our familiar characters into situations they normally would not be permitted to experience I think it gets used far too often. I know they say there is a "prime" universe but it just feels cheap somehow to tell a great story with no lasting consequences.
I wonder what the Harry of "Non Sequitur" would have done if he'd known that his future held six years of frequent suffering, romantic catastrophe, and the potential unjustified ruination of his Starfleet career (@Lord Garth 's prediction, not mine)... would he have been so eager to go back?
The wink should've given away it wasn't a serious prediction. I'm pretty sure that shortly after Voyager got back, he was promoted to Lieutenant.
But anyway, I don't know that being stationed on Earth would be something he'd be thrilled with either, considering it wasn't his first choice. He wouldn't hate his job, but I think he wouldn't love it either. It would be just a job. If he's not willing to stay even for Libby, then I don't know what else would prompt him to stay.
And I think everyone else knows that too. That's why they have been so careful to ensure that the canon fate for "our" Harry is unknown. Once it is, the "forever ensign" game ends, because they can't intelligently justify Harry staying an ensign once they're home.
Maybe, but Harry's smart, and he's got a knack for building things. He helped create Seven's astrometrics lab and the Delta Flyer, among other things. That may be why, despite his high class standing, he didn't get on Voyager in this timeline... the SCE saw his talent and asked for him.
In any case, I figured that the SCE was his alternate choice, just in case someone else got the Voyager post.
That's why there needed to at least be some conflict involved in that episode's plot.
Ome thing I will credit "NON SEQUITUR" for is Harry's sense of survivor guilt. It comes to its fullest in "TIMELESS", so this episode does help establish that character trait.
Oh, definitely. And it's very likely that survivor guilt compels him to do things most of us probably would not. But it just seems odd that he didn't even seem conflicted. Even when barista guy gave him a legit "out".
"Parturition"
Janeway's hair in this episode looks more like how it does later on in the series. Kim's on the flute. And Paris thinks he's in love with Kes! I don't buy Paris/Kes any more than I do Neelix/Kes. Anyway, Janeway has a slight wave going on. Torres has a new wig. Noticing a lot with the hair this episode. Neelix even offers hair pasta.
And Janeway tells the Doctor stop eavesdropping. And I've run out of other things to focus on. So back to the main focus.
Paris and Neelix get into a food fight over Kes. Right. So. This is elementary school in the cafeteria on a bad day. Maybe at most, middle schoolers acting like they're in elementary school on a bad day, and like Kes is Paris' first crush or something. Neither Paris nor Neelix are acting their age.
Immediately afterwards, Paris and Neelix are summoned by the Principal. Sorry, I mean the Captain. Both are wearing hair pasta. In front of Janeway. If this wasn't part of the Re-Watch, I'd be skipping over it. But nope, I'll grit my teeth and bare through it.
So. naturally, Paris and Neelix have to go on a mission together in a shuttle and Janeway -- quite correctly -- tells them to get over their differences.
Kes is upset that Neelix and Paris are fighting over her. All I'll say is that Kes is better than either of them. She doesn't like that Neelix is so insecure. The Doctor says there's nothing she can do about it. I think that's not true. She can set the record straight for Neelix and Paris about how she feels.
Except Neelix and Paris are on a shuttle. They argue some more, the shuttle crashes, we're half-way through the episode, and I'm going to take a short break.
Picking up where I left off. Neelix and Paris find a hatchling, they take care of it until its mother arrives, and they apologize to each other before they're rescued.
It's nice that they make up at the end, but it's not enough to save the episode. I give it a 4.
"Parturition" is a necessary evil. At the end of last production season, it seemed like they wanted to develop a triangle between Paris, Kes, and Neelix where Paris and Neelix would be at odds with each other over Kes. Then, at the beginning of this production season, I think they decided they didn't want to go that way after all, and this was their way of writing themselves out of it.
Janeway's hair in this episode looks more like how it does later on in the series. Kim's on the flute. And Paris thinks he's in love with Kes! I don't buy Paris/Kes any more than I do Neelix/Kes. Anyway, Janeway has a slight wave going on. Torres has a new wig. Noticing a lot with the hair this episode. Neelix even offers hair pasta.
And Janeway tells the Doctor stop eavesdropping. And I've run out of other things to focus on. So back to the main focus.
Paris and Neelix get into a food fight over Kes. Right. So. This is elementary school in the cafeteria on a bad day. Maybe at most, middle schoolers acting like they're in elementary school on a bad day, and like Kes is Paris' first crush or something. Neither Paris nor Neelix are acting their age.
Immediately afterwards, Paris and Neelix are summoned by the Principal. Sorry, I mean the Captain. Both are wearing hair pasta. In front of Janeway. If this wasn't part of the Re-Watch, I'd be skipping over it. But nope, I'll grit my teeth and bare through it.
So. naturally, Paris and Neelix have to go on a mission together in a shuttle and Janeway -- quite correctly -- tells them to get over their differences.
Kes is upset that Neelix and Paris are fighting over her. All I'll say is that Kes is better than either of them. She doesn't like that Neelix is so insecure. The Doctor says there's nothing she can do about it. I think that's not true. She can set the record straight for Neelix and Paris about how she feels.
Except Neelix and Paris are on a shuttle. They argue some more, the shuttle crashes, we're half-way through the episode, and I'm going to take a short break.
Picking up where I left off. Neelix and Paris find a hatchling, they take care of it until its mother arrives, and they apologize to each other before they're rescued.
It's nice that they make up at the end, but it's not enough to save the episode. I give it a 4.
"Parturition" is a necessary evil. At the end of last production season, it seemed like they wanted to develop a triangle between Paris, Kes, and Neelix where Paris and Neelix would be at odds with each other over Kes. Then, at the beginning of this production season, I think they decided they didn't want to go that way after all, and this was their way of writing themselves out of it.
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