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Why does Harry Kim never get promoted?
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I surely was, as mentioned aboveNo. I've literally spelled out Paris' entire backstory to you as of Caretaker.
If anyone is confused it's you.
Still, what I wrote on him and Locarno being different individuals stands.
It's a common fan theory that Nick Lacarno and Tom Paris are the same character. After all, Adm. Paris DOES have a picture of "Lacarno" on his desk.
It's actually in the same vein as the theory that Janeway secretly has it in for Harry. After all, he ranks up quite rapidly in five different alternate timelines, all of them when he is no longer under her command (or never was).
For more interesting theories...
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-voyager-fan-theories/
It's actually in the same vein as the theory that Janeway secretly has it in for Harry. After all, he ranks up quite rapidly in five different alternate timelines, all of them when he is no longer under her command (or never was).
For more interesting theories...
https://screenrant.com/star-trek-voyager-fan-theories/
Isn't the Harry Kim we see at the end of the series a different Harry Kim anyway from the original at the start of the series? I thought they rescued him from some alternate reality when real Harry died.
Different but identical, yes.
Quantum duplicate due to an anomaly, if I recall correctly.
Again, irrelevant. There were two of everyone, and two Voyager starships. Naomi (newborn) and Harry died on one Voyager. The other Voyager was boarded by Vidiians. Janeway nuked the ship, killing herself and everyone onboard except her side's version of Harry and Naomi, who she sent to the other Voyager. Ergo, every Voyager crew member was alive in one alternate reality and dead in the other.
All were on an equal footing. So, as an excuse for Harry's seven-year ensignhood, that doesn't hold water.
I wasn't using that as an excuse just an observation.
Janeway didn't promote him because she is Janeway
The question I want to know is... in the pocket universe, did Danny Bird, Harry's replacement on Voyager, end up an ensign for the full seven year trip home? 
He made Lt. Commander by year three.The question I want to know is... in the pocket universe, did Danny Bird, Harry's replacement on Voyager, end up an ensign for the full seven year trip home?
In that timeline Janeway was killed during the events of "Year of Hell", and Bird was forced to take command. Under his captaincy Voyager made peace with the Voth and Hirogen, found a way to liberate all Borg from the Collective, and devised a method for turning the Malon's waste products into a new energy source.
Voyager subsequently emerged from a Borg transwarp hub and conquered Earth.
Voyager subsequently emerged from a Borg transwarp hub and conquered Earth.
In that timeline Janeway was killed during the events of "Year of Hell", and Bird was forced to take command. Under his captaincy Voyager made peace with the Voth and Hirogen, found a way to liberate all Borg from the Collective, and devised a method for turning the Malon's waste products into a new energy source.
Voyager subsequently emerged from a Borg transwarp hub and conquered Earth.
That would have been a better ending then what we got.
Alternatively, he could have started a Federation of his own. Maybe added the Kazon and Ocampa as well. And that planet of the hot chicks... once Doctor Harry Kim (Byrd names him after his academy pal) helps them resolve that reproductive problem that causes them to kill their mates, the captain will add their world to the Federation and have about a dozen of them as his "personal assistants".
Anyone think that maybe Janeway kept Harry stuck at ensign due to "cuteness" factor, kind of like when you doll up your puppy in a Santa suit for a Christmas party?
Anyone think that maybe Janeway kept Harry stuck at ensign due to "cuteness" factor, kind of like when you doll up your puppy in a Santa suit for a Christmas party?
Janeway may dislike promoting people due to that that would be her having to admit that they've been in the Delta Quadrant for quite a while and they probably won't be back soon, Kim and the others will have to have a long career, maybe actually spend their lifetimes, trying to get back.
Interesting thought. I never considered that. No promoting to help overall morale... definitely a unique take.
That's a variation on the "ship full of captains and admirals" argument. It would have taken literally hundreds of promotions to get to that point. Surely there was a reasonable medium between that and the two promotions Janeway actually gave. Especially given that she lost 39 of her people to death, and demoted six more.
Because Harry is pretty meh.
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