Why Didn't Harry Get Promoted?

[Oddish]

If Voyager and Equinox found themselves as a two-ship fleet (and all of the latter's officers dead or brigged for mass murder), you'd need your most technically proficient people aboard Equinox. And your best engineer on full-time engineer duties. Probably...

USS Voyager
Captain: Kathryn Janeway
First Officer: Tuvok (promote Ayala to head of security)
Chief Engineer: Joe Carey

USS Equinox
Captain: Chakotay
First Officer: Harry Kim (promoted to LTJG)
Chief Engineer: B'Elanna Torres

 

[Farscape One]

Being XO and Chief Engineer at the same time seems like a bad idea, especially if your ship finds itself in the middle of a crisis.

Very true. Likely why the only times we see an XO function concurrently with another position it was always a bridge station. (Spock, T'Pol, Number One.)

 

[FredH]

Well, there was that time Harry made a passionate speech about how deep and all-encompassing his love was for… someone he would shortly leave in the Delta Quadrant, where he apparently had no plans of remaining. That doesn’t speak well of his forward thinking.

 

[Oddish]

Well, there was that time Harry made a passionate speech about how deep and all-encompassing his love was for… someone he would shortly leave in the Delta Quadrant, where he apparently had no plans of remaining. That doesn’t speak well of his forward thinking.

He was in an altered state, mentally. That's why I consider Janeway's reprimand against him to be unjustified.