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

On The Delta Flyers podcast, hosts and best friends in real life, Garrett Wang and Robert Duncan McNeill, typically begin with a haiku and a limerick about that week's episode. For Deadlock, one of Wang's haiku's, largely the work of his partner Megan, and also inspired by McNeill's self-confessed 'dad joke' on the two d's in PADD…D-D-D…, was as follows:

I died-d-d-d,

And no one cared-d-d-d.

So-b-b-b-b.

O Captain! My Captain! and, if not quite carpe diem, then at least try to seize B'Elanna's hand and/or the rungs on that ladder. One of the Ensigns Kim's death in Deadlock was certainly sudden.

Wang's perspective, rightly or wrongly, is that Janeway in particular seemed to move on awfully quickly after the announcement. It's not like they could hold a memorial service mid-crisis, but it is true that, once the other Kim had made it across the threshold, the Harry floating in space was promptly forgotten about… or was he?

In an interview with CinemaBlend's Mick Joest in 2024, Wang gave his own intriguing pitch for what might have happened to "Prime Kim" after being blown into space:

My imagined storyline was the Prime Harry […] is actually beamed aboard a floating Borg sphere that is actually kind of hanging out nearby […]. Borg Kim [then] ends up becoming the secret weapon of the Borg Queen to get Seven of Nine back.

(Even more on what might have happened to the other Kim later in this article…)

As for 'Prime Harry,' or the original versus the copy, debate when it comes to Deadlock, it's all a moot point beyond any helpful, distinguishing terminology. When it gets to the level of (albeit in this case made-up) quantum physics, there is no coherent answer that will satisfy our macroscopic rationalities. In this case, instead of the cat, the "divergence of subspace fields" had superimposed Harry, both dead and alive. For the moment, IN CANON, don't expect the wave function to collapse!