Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Harry Kim

It's not for nothing that the French call 'it' la petite mort. Over the years, Harry has died (literally) about many times as he has died that 'little death'. Freud would have had a field day with him on the chaise longue. 

In The Disease, for example, a lovesickness for Harry made itself physically manifest via a form of sexually transmitted infection — the Varro's Olan'vora. As the episode's storywriter Kenneth Biller commented in Cinefantastique, vol. 31, no. 11:

I wanted to explore the notion that people will stay in relationships that they know are unhealthy for them, because they feel an almost physical need or compulsion to be with that other person.

Then again, Harry seemed to be the only one who needed to get permission to have sex with aliens. 'Death' is also having to explain your intimate relations to the captain.

"She's not a Borg, she's not a hologram, and she's not dead," Tom Paris then noted as a form of 'congratulations' to his friend in Drive. Unfortunately, 'she' was Irina, a Terrellian terrorist seeking to blow up the finishing line of the Antarian Trans-stellar Rally, and but for a last-minute change of co-pilots, very nearly Harry along with it. At least the Delaney sisters were (somewhere) out of the way!

As for actual death, Harry's first was in Emanations, though he was promptly revived. A little later, Harry and the rest of the crew of Voyager all theoretically died in an "explosion in the 29th century" ("the future's end" of Future's End). Similar cause, same effect, over and over, in Relativity. Different cause, singular explosion, in Timeless. Duplicate death in Course: Oblivion then probably only counts if you're really counting.

Of course, there's one death missing on that list, and it’s a big one — out into space in Deadlock. Of all the many deaths, it is also the one that still rankles for Garrett Wang…