Why Didn't Harry Get Promoted?

[Oddish]

Since Joe Carey and Ahni Jetal are also on the list, it may not exactly be considered canonical.

USS Dauntless personnel

List of personnel assigned to the USS Dauntless (NCC-80816). This Bolian command ensign was featured in the holo-recording of the USS Protostar's christening as Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway watched it. (PRO: "Asylum") Later, while aboard the Dauntless, he was walking down the hall as Janeway...

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[FederationHistorian]

Since Joe Carey and Ahni Jetal are also on the list, it may not exactly be considered canonical.

USS Dauntless personnel

List of personnel assigned to the USS Dauntless (NCC-80816). This Bolian command ensign was featured in the holo-recording of the USS Protostar's christening as Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway watched it. (PRO: "Asylum") Later, while aboard the Dauntless, he was walking down the hall as Janeway...

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Or, provided that they are the exact same people that served on Voyager, they were resurrected using Seven’s nanoprobes. Or they are mimetic simbiots.

 

[mithril]

Or, provided that they are the exact same people that served on Voyager, they were resurrected using Seven’s nanoprobes. Or they are mimetic simbiots.

Maybe they became Kobali?

 

[Oddish]

Maybe they became Kobali?

Much as I like that idea, they'd be using Kobali names if they were.

However, the nanoprobe theory holds, at least for Carey. If Seven could restore Neelix after 18 hours, she could probably restore Carey far sooner.

 

[at Quark's]

If the ship wasn't actually shown to exist (as I believe it is, I never have seen the series), I'd take it a veiled reference that Harry had died while doing his duty ('they're all serving on the same ship now ... in the afterlife').

 

[Oddish]

Or that Harry died from a delayed result of something that happened to him in the DQ. He was pronounced dead at 11:57 PM, with his promotion to lieutenant set to go officially active at midnight the next day. So, the Forever Ensign crowd still gets what they want, since his promotion was posthumous.

 

[at Quark's]

Or that Harry died from a delayed result of something that happened to him in the DQ. He was pronounced dead at 11:57 PM, with his promotion to lieutenant set to go officially active at midnight the next day. So, the Forever Ensign crowd still gets what they want, since his promotion was posthumous.

Yeah, and I could even buy him dying an ensign, but then be promoted two ranks (i.e. to full Lt.). One rank as the standard posthumous promotion, one rank as acknowledgement that he really should have been promoted during his life at some point.

 

[at Quark's]

It's too bad the producers didn't make Harry a junior grade lieutenant in the first place. It wouldn't be a problem to remain that rank for the entire series.

Yes, except that then they'd have to ditch the 'straight out of Starfleet Academy- green, wide eyes filled with wonder about his first assignment' part- after all he should have spent some time on an assignment to merit that Lt. Jg. promotion.

 

[Oddish]

Yes, except that then they'd have to ditch the 'straight out of Starfleet Academy- green, wide eyes filled with wonder about his first assignment' part- after all he should have spent some time on an assignment to merit that Lt. Jg. promotion.

The best way to use him would have been to have Durst be the chief of operations, with Harry as his assistant. Then, Durst goes down in "Faces", and Deputy Chief of Operations Harry Kim is what they have to do the job. He struggles for a season or two, then grows into a capable officer, and that's when Janeway promotes him.