10 Most Messed Up Deaths In Star Trek: Voyager

1. I Wanted To Be A Spaceman — Harrys Kim

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All Harry Kim ever dreamt of was being in Starfleet, of going out there to explore the galaxy. Assigned to Voyager just out of the Academy, Kim achieved that dream, although one version of him got to see a lot more of space than he had bargained for. Harry — the Miles O'Brien of the Delta Quadrant, ever suffering, but without the promotion.

"It's been a wild ride," Tom Paris said to Kim as the pair prepared to head off down to the Demon-class planet in Demon, where they would inadvertently create the previous misfortunates on this list. It certainly had been a heck of one for Harry — "Hell, I've even come back from the dead," the ensign with newfound confidence had said. He was surely referring to Emanations, but comparatively speaking, he barely died in that. Couple of cc's of cordrazine soon sorted it!

Emanations was just the tip of the effed-up iceberg of death for Voyager's freshest-faced newbie. In his reminiscing, Harry should really have spared a thought for his erstwhile other self who had, and not for a lack of stretching, been blasted out of a hull breach in Deadlock. Everyone died and everyone lived in that episode, in a kind of Schrödinger's Cat writ large where opening the box doesn't help. The Harrys just switched the order of things across the spatial scission, but one of them was definitely still dead.

Not content with just one case of the co-existence of existence and non-existence, Harry got himself blown up towards the end of Timeless too, but not before resetting the timeline. In theory, Captain Kim from the alternate future of Endgame also existed/never existed, but you'd have to check with the Temporal Mechanics Department on that one!

This is Starfleet, Ensign. Death is part of the job.

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Jack Kiely is a writer with a PhD in French and almost certainly an unhealthy obsession with Star Trek.