Yesterday I was sorting through the timeline I made of the episodes and books in seasons 1-3 and it struck me that poor harry must have been cursed in some way shortly before being assigned to Voyager. In three years the poor guy had more accidents and fatal injuries than an ordinary person has in all his/her life.
April 2371: Harry is asigned to Voyager. Good fortune? Just wait......
26 April 2371: On his first mission, harry and the rest of the crew are transported to the Delta Quadrant by The Caretaker who gives Harry and B'Elanna a fatal disease which they fortunately are cured from. (Episode "Caretaker).
14 June 2371: Harry, B'Elanna and Neelix are accidently transported back in time on the planet Alcawell. Unauthorized time travel is a main offense on that world and Harry and the others are actually executed before Janeway manage to retrieve them and bring them back to life with some time-travel and diplomacy. (Book "The Escape")
17 June 2371: Harry is badly injured in a firefight with a P'nir and close to death. (Book "Ragnarok")
7 August 2371: Harry and Tom are captured on the Banean homeworld and Tom is accused for murdering a professor. Harry is released after intensive interrogation and ends up in sickbay as a result of that. (Episode "Ex Post Facto")
16 August 2371: Harry is transported to another dimension. he changes place with a man who is about to be killed, ends up being killed himself but is brought back to life on Voyager. (Episode "Emanations")
10 September 2371: Harry is captured by some energy beings while playing Beowulf on the holodeck and dissapears from Voyager. he is finally brought back by The Doctor (Episode "Heroes and Demons")
Thursday 9 December 2371: Harry is poisened by radioactive radiation and ends up in sickbay. (Book "The Final Fury")
5 January 2372: While on a mission with a shuttle, Harry ends up in an alternate timeline and is only seconds from being blown to pieces in an explosion while attempting to come back to his own timeline. (Episode "Non Sequitur).
11 January 2372: Harry is injured in a firefight and ends up in sickbay. (Book "Ghost Of A Chance)
3 February 2372. Harry is badly injured in an explosion and close to death. (Book "Cybersong)
13 February 2372: Harry and Tom gets involved in a political struggle on Sardalia and are captured by one of the groups involved in the conflict. While trying to escape from those people, Harry and Tom are close to drown and rescued by Chakotay in the last possible second. (Book "Bless The Beasts)
19 July 2372: Harry is killed while being sucked out in space on a badly damaged Voyager. However, Vyager has been duplicated and eventually the duplicate Harry takes the place of the original Harry on Voyager when all paradoxes are solved. Duplicate or not, the curse is still there. (Episode "Deadlock")
1 August 2372: Harry and B'Elanna ends up in a virtual world, ruled by the evil Clown. Who ends up of being The Clowns pet project if not poor Harry. He is almost decapitated but saved in the last minute by The Doctor. (Episode "The Thaw")
3 August 2372: Harry and B'Elanna are captured by the Nograkh and forced to work in a radioactive mine. Both are poisoned by radiation but manage to escape. (Book "Her Klingon Soul")
9 September 2372: Harry is almost court-martialed after questioning the decision to leave Janeway and Chakotay on a strange planet (Episode "Resolutions)
28 December 2372: Harry breaks his leg in a cavern during an eartquake and is very close to fall din a deep cliff. He is rescued by Tom and Kes and ends up in sickbay. (Book "Chrysalis")
21 January 2373: It's Harry's birthday when Voyager encounters the planet Ryolanov. There, the crew face one of the most vicious enemies they ever encounter in the Delta Quadrant. OK, Harry gets away without injuries this time but the fact that the events starts on his birthday is clearly because of the curse.
26 February 2373: Harry and Tom are imprisoned on Akritiri and taken to a strange space station which serves as a pison. Both are beaten up and ill-treated but finally manage to escape. (Episode "The Chute" and how many times do we have to tell Tom that going with Harry on some mission will be fatal in the long run?)
5 september 2373: Harry is infected by a virus which is activated on 25 september 2173 when Harry is lead to believe that he is a Taresian, striving to go home. At the Taresian homeworld, Harry is almost the victim of some DNA-sucking female "vampires" before being rescued in the last possible moment. (Episode "Favorite Son)
26 december 2373: Harry is attacked by Species 2472 and badly injured, close to death.
And the curse goes on and on and on.....
Note that all those events were only in seasons 1-3. Since it was a long time ago I watched seasons 4-6 and I'm not familiar at all with the season 4-7 books or the season 7 episodes, I won't go into those seasons, I'm sure that there are those who have better memories of them. But I have some vague memories which tells me that the curse did continue during all the events in those years as well. No wonder that this old blues tune from Tom's library of 20th century music has become Harry's favorite:
"Born under a bad sign
I've been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all
Bad luck and trouble is my only friend
I've been down ever since I was ten
Born under a bad sign....."
My season 1-3 Voyager episodes and books timeline: http://lynx677.110mb.com/timeline.html
April 2371: Harry is asigned to Voyager. Good fortune? Just wait......
26 April 2371: On his first mission, harry and the rest of the crew are transported to the Delta Quadrant by The Caretaker who gives Harry and B'Elanna a fatal disease which they fortunately are cured from. (Episode "Caretaker).
14 June 2371: Harry, B'Elanna and Neelix are accidently transported back in time on the planet Alcawell. Unauthorized time travel is a main offense on that world and Harry and the others are actually executed before Janeway manage to retrieve them and bring them back to life with some time-travel and diplomacy. (Book "The Escape")
17 June 2371: Harry is badly injured in a firefight with a P'nir and close to death. (Book "Ragnarok")
7 August 2371: Harry and Tom are captured on the Banean homeworld and Tom is accused for murdering a professor. Harry is released after intensive interrogation and ends up in sickbay as a result of that. (Episode "Ex Post Facto")
16 August 2371: Harry is transported to another dimension. he changes place with a man who is about to be killed, ends up being killed himself but is brought back to life on Voyager. (Episode "Emanations")
10 September 2371: Harry is captured by some energy beings while playing Beowulf on the holodeck and dissapears from Voyager. he is finally brought back by The Doctor (Episode "Heroes and Demons")
Thursday 9 December 2371: Harry is poisened by radioactive radiation and ends up in sickbay. (Book "The Final Fury")
5 January 2372: While on a mission with a shuttle, Harry ends up in an alternate timeline and is only seconds from being blown to pieces in an explosion while attempting to come back to his own timeline. (Episode "Non Sequitur).
11 January 2372: Harry is injured in a firefight and ends up in sickbay. (Book "Ghost Of A Chance)
3 February 2372. Harry is badly injured in an explosion and close to death. (Book "Cybersong)
13 February 2372: Harry and Tom gets involved in a political struggle on Sardalia and are captured by one of the groups involved in the conflict. While trying to escape from those people, Harry and Tom are close to drown and rescued by Chakotay in the last possible second. (Book "Bless The Beasts)
19 July 2372: Harry is killed while being sucked out in space on a badly damaged Voyager. However, Vyager has been duplicated and eventually the duplicate Harry takes the place of the original Harry on Voyager when all paradoxes are solved. Duplicate or not, the curse is still there. (Episode "Deadlock")
1 August 2372: Harry and B'Elanna ends up in a virtual world, ruled by the evil Clown. Who ends up of being The Clowns pet project if not poor Harry. He is almost decapitated but saved in the last minute by The Doctor. (Episode "The Thaw")
3 August 2372: Harry and B'Elanna are captured by the Nograkh and forced to work in a radioactive mine. Both are poisoned by radiation but manage to escape. (Book "Her Klingon Soul")
9 September 2372: Harry is almost court-martialed after questioning the decision to leave Janeway and Chakotay on a strange planet (Episode "Resolutions)
28 December 2372: Harry breaks his leg in a cavern during an eartquake and is very close to fall din a deep cliff. He is rescued by Tom and Kes and ends up in sickbay. (Book "Chrysalis")
21 January 2373: It's Harry's birthday when Voyager encounters the planet Ryolanov. There, the crew face one of the most vicious enemies they ever encounter in the Delta Quadrant. OK, Harry gets away without injuries this time but the fact that the events starts on his birthday is clearly because of the curse.
26 February 2373: Harry and Tom are imprisoned on Akritiri and taken to a strange space station which serves as a pison. Both are beaten up and ill-treated but finally manage to escape. (Episode "The Chute" and how many times do we have to tell Tom that going with Harry on some mission will be fatal in the long run?)
5 september 2373: Harry is infected by a virus which is activated on 25 september 2173 when Harry is lead to believe that he is a Taresian, striving to go home. At the Taresian homeworld, Harry is almost the victim of some DNA-sucking female "vampires" before being rescued in the last possible moment. (Episode "Favorite Son)
26 december 2373: Harry is attacked by Species 2472 and badly injured, close to death.
And the curse goes on and on and on.....
Note that all those events were only in seasons 1-3. Since it was a long time ago I watched seasons 4-6 and I'm not familiar at all with the season 4-7 books or the season 7 episodes, I won't go into those seasons, I'm sure that there are those who have better memories of them. But I have some vague memories which tells me that the curse did continue during all the events in those years as well. No wonder that this old blues tune from Tom's library of 20th century music has become Harry's favorite:
"Born under a bad sign
I've been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all
Bad luck and trouble is my only friend
I've been down ever since I was ten
Born under a bad sign....."
My season 1-3 Voyager episodes and books timeline: http://lynx677.110mb.com/timeline.html
