Ensemble casting and character development.
Yeah, the action and space battles are good too, and the serialization and political intrigue added to the experience. But the large cast combined of main and supporting cast and character development or everyone on the show and not just for three or four characters is what sells the shows. It makes the show feel more real and organic to see everyone get used, even when they don’t say a word.
He probably would.
First, Deep Space Nine and the Defiant never encountered anything like the spatial scission that caused the original Harry Kim to die. That alone ups his chances.
Second, he would get promoted much sooner. Forcing him to adapt his world view with the added responsibility. Harry was never pushed to grow beyond his rank on Voyager and in many ways, remained a bright-eyed ensign for all seven seasons on VOY. While Bashir on DS9 grew out of that bright eyed optimism that he came onto DS9 with at the start of S1 over several years.
Third, he’d be close enough to Libby to further develop that relationship. And if that relationship ends, then he has a lot of options on the station. On Voyager, he was either going on double dates involving Tom Paris and the Delaney sisters, or he was falling in love with random aliens and got reprimanded by Janeway for that in one case.
Fourth, he’d be close to his family, like many others on the station are close to theirs. and his family would push him to do better in both his professional career and personal life. On Voyager, he had Janeway as a substitute mom, who was more protective of him than anything.
Harry would just take O’Brien’s place for half of the suffering that O’Brien went through over those seven years. But neither would suffer as much as they did over those seven years on their respective shows.
Yeah, the action and space battles are good too, and the serialization and political intrigue added to the experience. But the large cast combined of main and supporting cast and character development or everyone on the show and not just for three or four characters is what sells the shows. It makes the show feel more real and organic to see everyone get used, even when they don’t say a word.
He probably would.
First, Deep Space Nine and the Defiant never encountered anything like the spatial scission that caused the original Harry Kim to die. That alone ups his chances.
Second, he would get promoted much sooner. Forcing him to adapt his world view with the added responsibility. Harry was never pushed to grow beyond his rank on Voyager and in many ways, remained a bright-eyed ensign for all seven seasons on VOY. While Bashir on DS9 grew out of that bright eyed optimism that he came onto DS9 with at the start of S1 over several years.
Third, he’d be close enough to Libby to further develop that relationship. And if that relationship ends, then he has a lot of options on the station. On Voyager, he was either going on double dates involving Tom Paris and the Delaney sisters, or he was falling in love with random aliens and got reprimanded by Janeway for that in one case.
Fourth, he’d be close to his family, like many others on the station are close to theirs. and his family would push him to do better in both his professional career and personal life. On Voyager, he had Janeway as a substitute mom, who was more protective of him than anything.
Harry would just take O’Brien’s place for half of the suffering that O’Brien went through over those seven years. But neither would suffer as much as they did over those seven years on their respective shows.
) easily became my favorite character, in close tow being Bashir -- one of TV's best double-acts, apart from Vila and Avon... but that's another story. The main claim to fame here is that the characters are really what set DS9 apart. Closer to real and relatable in archetype, but still discernible as people from a future time, which is not easy to pull off.
