VOY s7e11 “Shattered”
"Ensign Kim, we hope you are readjusting well to life on Earth. We have been reviewing the reports and are finding you quite the accomplished Ensign, you were instrumental to the survival of voyager and her crew, even taking on captain duties at times. You were basically 6th or 7th in command right after the doctor. We feel continuing to call you Ensign Kim would be a disservice to all you have achieved in the past 7 years aboard Voyager.
Congratulations Super-Ensign Kim. You are dismissed."
“Executive Ensign” to make him feel good about himself.
I gave him a real rank…according to this list. https://lemmy.world/post/18114046
It’s where I first wrote this little “story”, and have been copying it when ever relevant, because why be original again :)
i nominate Kim to Petty Ensign Second Class
Executive Transvestite:
Though, she’s just Suzy these days.
All jokes aside, was there a logical reason Kim was never promoted? Either in-universe or from a production standpoint? He definitely seemed to have a disproportionate amount of responsibility.
gotta have a whipping boy, and those take at least a decade to breed (no kes)
I could be mistaken but in the beginning of the show didn’t Janeway say that promotions are indefinitely suspended? They don’t know how long they’ll be out there, and unfortunately there will always be ensign work
They made up an excuse about how there was ‘no room’ for promotions, except they demoted Paris for a while which would have freed up a spot for Kim. Also, Kim being an ensign when he’s in charge of all of Ops doesn’t make any sense; he has lieutenants and possibly lieutenant commanders under him.
Out of universe, Berman said that someone absolutely had to be the rookie, even after seven years in deep space, so Kim couldn’t get promoted or meaningfully grow. He also tried to fire Wang a few times for nebulous reasons, only backing off when Wang got a ‘sexiest man on TV’ award. Wang was also the only Star Trek cast member to ever be denied the opportunity to direct an episode, courtesy of Berman. Wang also once said of Berman, “if there is a hell in this existence that we have that people can go to, he’s first on the list.”
So, short answer is that Berman is scum.
Tuvok was promoted. So was Paris, granted that was after having been demoted.
And a bunch of Maquis got handed out weird lozenge-shaped rank pips out of the candy jar on day one that instantly outranked Kim.
“We’re suspending all promotions…except for my close friends of course”
He sat in the chair on “night watch,” broke the Prime Directive even.
My thought is that him being “Phase shift Harry” from mid season 2 onward, he had to put in the requisite time like a new cadet. He already has the training/knowledge and kept the rank he was at. However, regulations being what they are, he’s stuck at ensign for a while longer.
Broke the Prime Directive and didn’t end up as Captain? Wow, things certainly have changed / will change or whatever depending on when Discovery wants to set itself. Didn’t Burnham do that (or start a war) and make Captain like 10 minutes later for some hand-wavy reason?
yeah, captains are always breaking the prime directive. harry doesn’t commit enough crimes to not be an ensign
Standards have fallen.
Regarding the USS Discovery, started out a prisoner (life sentance) for comitting mutiny and worked her way up to captain somehow. Time travel and a redacted personnel file played a part. Eventually made admiral.
Thats Harry Fuckin Kim to you!
Fair. Mi scusi.
They done Harry dirty
Even when Lower Decks brought it to the forefront, they showed that a promoted Kim is an evil Kim.
Lies! Lies and cartoonery!
also chocolate
I think you’re drawing some conclusions there, pal
Actually, it could be a “great filter” situation; mostly only ensign Kims end up in situations where they end up accidentally switching multiverses. Lieutenant Kims are far less likely to end up in such a situation, thus the small sample size.
Interestingly, we see an okudagram in PRO that confirms prime Harry hit Lieutenant by 2384. Unfortunately, I can’t post it, as my instance is updating my image storage infrastructure right now.
They threw him a bone for the upcoming Academy.
I feel a bit insulted that Bashir didn’t even make Lieutenant Commander in his entire life in Starfleet, considering he was very young when we last saw him.
Downgraded him to Admin Assistant Harry Kim.
That’s his first name. He’s really embarrassed by it. His full name is Padm Harry SL Kim. He was dishonorably discharged from starfleet and vaporized as janeway and neelix’s scapegoat for the leola root stew incident, and honestly that was a kindness.
Know what im watching tonight
