9 Ups & NO Downs From Star Trek: Lower Decks 5.9 - Fissure Quest

4. UP — So That's What Happens When You Promote Mr. Kim

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Let alone the lowly rank, poor Harry was so rarely the hero of the piece, of an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, that inevitably, cleverly, at least one — with the TWO pips — was going to break and become the villain. This 24th century Herostratus wasn't burning down temples, but in death, he will live in infamy. You can't blame him either. His fellow Kims were all still ensigns, because of course they were. That really was f**ked up!

The return of Garrett Wang was teased in the official trailer. After eight episodes of waiting, he and his multiple Harrys did not disappoint in nine. The Kim copies were differentiated, in part, by uniform — some in the DS9/First Contact grey, one in the outfit from Drive, others still in the habitual Harry get-up — and by clarinet. They also provided some tantalising Voyager talk.

Not every Harry had made it home. Some had settled in the Delta Quadrant. Not all of them were bothered by not being promoted. "You know, I guess between all the Borg infiltrations and aliens trying to steal our organs, it didn't seem like that big of a deal," noted the Harry in racing attire.

LIEUTENANT Harry Kim did nearly destroy the multiverse, but that pales in comparison to the biggest of questions within it: "What did you guys do with your Tuvix?" N.B. NOT "[…] with your Tuvoks?" of the subtitles!

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