Warning: comprises spoilers for Star Trek:Voyager: Homecoming #5!
After 31 years, Star Trek is acknowledging Voyager’s best Starfleet snub. Captain Janeway and the crew of Voyager endured a lot whereas stranded within the Delta Quadrant, however none extra so than Ensign Harry Kim. Among the many many indignities Harry suffered was an absence of upward mobility and this will get a call-out in Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #5.
Star Trek: Voyager: Homecoming #5 was written by Susan Bridges and Tilly Bridges and drawn by Adrian Bonilla. After Voyager’s return to the Alpha Quadrant, the crew are reunited with their households. Harry is not any exception.
His mother and father are overjoyed to see him, and his mother asks about his lack of a promotion.
Harry Kim’s First Starfleet Mission Despatched Him Throughout the Galaxy
For Some Motive, Harry Kim Was By no means Promoted
Ensign Harry Kim, portrayed by Garrett Wang, was Voyager’s Operations Officer. Recent out of Starfleet Academy, Kim was posted to Voyager simply in time for her first mission: to intercept a band of Maquis terrorists final seen within the tough and tumble Badlands. Throughout the mission, Voyager was pulled, after which stranded, within the distant Delta Quadrant.
Whereas on Voyager’s lengthy trek again to the Alpha Quadrant, Harry gained expertise far and past something his classmates on the Academy ever would. Nevertheless, these experiences didn’t translate into promotions: Harry stayed an Ensign all through all seven seasons of Voyager. Nearly all of Harry’s shipmates on Voyager had been promoted, however it eluded him for some cause.
Star Trek: Voyager Did Harry Kim Unsuitable
Different than simply unhealthy writing on the a part of the present’s artistic workforce, nobody is aware of why Harry was by no means promoted whereas serving aboard Voyager. Definitely the sheer variety of instances Harry was at dying’s door ought to have certified him for some type of promotion, to say nothing of the situations the place he saved the ship.
Within the years since Star Trek: Voyager went off the air, Harry has change into one thing of a punchline within the fan neighborhood. Posts and memes have been created poking enjoyable at Harry and his seeming incapability to get a promotion. Whereas Star Trek fandom might crack jokes concerning the topic, the reality is Harry was dealt a grave injustice.
Licensed Star Trek media, akin to novels and different comedian books, have addressed this matter. In IDW’s lately concluded Star Trek, Harry was working for Starfleet Intelligence on the Tznkethi homeworld, which introduced with it a bump as much as lieutenant JG. Harry’s appearances in these books additionally implied he joined, or was no less than doing work for Part 31.
Star Trek Lastly Admits It Did Harry Kim Unsuitable, and Is Making Up For It
Harry’s mother and father, whereas joyful to be reunited with their solely little one, additionally expressed disappointment that he was nonetheless an ensign after seven years. Harry’s father promised he would have a chat with Captain Janeway, in a good-hearted approach, about his son’s lack of a promotion. Harry might not have been promoted, however he was residence.
Canonically, Harry Kim ended his Starfleet profession as an admiral, as seen on Starfleet Academy’s memorial wall, an indication that Star Trek was lastly able to let him develop and develop as a personality. It’s a disgrace the promotions by no means got here throughout Voyager’s run on tv, however it has occurred in the end.
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