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What in Gods name did Harry Kim do in Voyager?

Apparently, one of the dumb directives from the showrunners, according to an interview with Garrett Wang, was that the human characters were intended to be less interesting than the alien ones. So the actors were given instructions to not be too emotional when delivering their lines, or some such nonsense. More proof of how fucked up the producers of that show really were. -- RR
 
I liked his character. He was an ensign on a small unimportant ship. What do people expect, a boy genius who solves all Voyager problems? His portrayal is realistic, he just stands there and follows orders, decisions are made by senior officers.


Dumb though it may be...it was stated on screen that Harry was a senior officer. As Ops Officer he was also a department head. Thus it never made any sense that he was not promoted to lieutenant.
 
Unless his staff entirely consisted of enlisted crewmen?

Which means that when he was feeling sick, the entire department didn't even need an officer to run smooth as silk?
 
It was Janeway's choice to promote him and she never did.
Maybe someone should ask her why he didn't get a promotion.
 
It was Janeway's choice to promote him and she never did.
Maybe someone should ask her why he didn't get a promotion.

I think someone needs to get Mulgrew and Wang together onstage at a convention and let him step back into Kim's shoes one more time just for that question...

She'd probably just pinch his cheeks. :lol:
 
Nighting gale

JANEWAY: Have you thought about applying to the Advocate General's office? You'd make a good lawyer. I suppose I could spare Chakotay or Tuvok for a few days.
KIM: That won't be necessary. The Kraylor know me. They trust me.
JANEWAY: I'm sure they'd find Tuvok or Chakotay just as trustworthy.
KIM: But they outrank me. If you send one of them, it won't be my mission anymore.
JANEWAY: Your mission.
KIM: My first real command.
JANEWAY: You've been in command on Voyager before.
KIM: On the night shift, for a few hours. It's not the same thing. You and Chakotay are always a couple of decks away ready to take over if anything goes wrong. I've been on Voyager for almost seven years and I'm still an Ensign.
JANEWAY: If this is your way of bucking for a promotion.
KIM: No, no, I understand there's a command structure and that our circumstances are unique, but the fact is, if we were back home, I'd be a Lieutenant by now. Maybe even a Lieutenant Commander.
JANEWAY: [SNORT/Laughter/Possibly unscripted. Mulgrew being catty?] You're pretty sure of yourself, aren't you?
KIM: I know I can do this, and the Kraylor are giving me a chance to prove it.
JANEWAY: I expect you back before we complete our repairs.
KIM: Yes, ma'am.
JANEWAY: And I'm not sending you alone.
KIM: Captain.
JANEWAY: I want you to take Seven. Since she has no rank, you clearly outrank her.
 
I hated that episode so much. Just reading that makes me feel all twitchy. :scream:
 
He doesn't understand the Prime Directive. Cloaks are clearly weapons and Harry was taking sides in a war. How can you promote someone who drags the entire federation into the losing side of a lop sided conflict? He could have gotten the entire species exterminated.

Idiot.

If he could build and maintain a cloak, then why didn't Voyager, even if it was a criminal technology after the treaty of algernon, have a cloak?

Lazy.
 
He doesn't understand the Prime Directive. Cloaks are clearly weapons and Harry was taking sides in a war. How can you promote someone who drags the entire federation into the losing side of a lop sided conflict?
Doesn't sound too much different that the Starfleet officers that sided with the Maquis.
 
^ Soooooo not the point :)
:lol: He did have a few good moments but, he pretty much was just the opposite guy in the first season and so on. B'Elanna was Maquis, wasn't a fan of Starfleet her scenes with Harry "StarFleet" were just that him being opposite. With Tom, Tom was the bad boy while Harry was the good officer. Then he just became the Tom tag along.
 
^I'd have called him the straight man, but I've heard some theories about him that would force me to question, even that...
 
Well in The Thaw, the Guillotine is used on a log, which splits it in two. Now apparently the funfair was the construct of the minds of the people who were there, and since Harry was the one whom the program was focused on, the log (a phallic symbol) was being broken by the clown. Which apparently is some Freudian thing.

Similarly when he's playing the clarinet for Tom, there is a Freudian interpretation there too.

Oh, and when they use that transporter thing in the first season. Harry is on a planet 35,000 light years away, and the girl is all over him. Transporter would still have been there in the morning.
 
JB, honey...maybe you need to go out and get a little fresh air and sunshine? ;)

But hey, I guess there are worse hobbies than looking for Freud in all the wrong places.
 
^ I hasten to add, not my theory!

Mind you when you start studying Literature into any sort of depth, sex and sexuality are apparently the driving force behind everything!
 
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