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I love Harry Kim because he's Jim Kirk two degrees to the left. He's an overachieving career-boy who seeks out mommy figures but instead of making captain at 30 he's stuck on the three hour tour from hell. He's Kirk if Kirk was kind of a failure. He's Kirk with no Spock. He's a Kirk who (TRAGICALLY) thinks his Spock is Tom fucking Paris.
This post popped up in my notifications again (and it's one of my all time faves because Harry Kim = Jim Kirk if he just kept stepping on rakes is so funny to me) and I was scrolling the comments and stopped dead in my tracks at this
VORIK? THE HORNIEST AND LAMEST VULCAN EVER? THE ONLY GUY ON VOYAGER WHO CAN'T GET IT IN MORE THAN HARRY??
Harry Kim and Vorik is the funniest possible Captain and XO combination. They would hate each other sooooo much. Vorik would be sweaty all the time. Harry keeps mentioning the need for bridge officers to wear deodorant but it changes nothing. Harry is pining over Tom and Vorik is pining over B'Elanna and they'd both be watching their marriage from the tragic middle distance and sullenly playing chess together in moody silence because Tom and B'Elanna are too busy fucking in the holodeck
I want this show immediately. NOW.
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Edit: tumblr mobile did a number on my image ID’s so they’re just in the alt text now 🙄
one of the 90s trek novels mentioned that “starfleet had all but eradicated mental illness except 1-2 cases a year.” which 1) is extremely funny considering everyone in starfleet is always blowing up all the time or watching their friends blow up or experiencing life altering trauma during their 9-5 workday. but 2) even better can you imagine being Depression Joe and you’re just a random Lieutenant except your thing is that you’re the one mentally ill person in starfleet that year. can you fucking imagine
For the record, both Troi and Commander Toreth are badass in "Face of the Enemy," and while I've seen Troi get credit for taking control of the insane situation she's thrown into, I don't see Toreth get nearly enough credit for repeatedly getting up in the face of someone she believes to be a representative of her government's most feared agency and telling her that she sucks and the Tal Shiar sucks (which it does), bearing in mind this agency murdered her own father.
T’Pol: Wait, you wanted me to come hang out and be a terrorist with you?
T’Les: …. Yes?
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The Maquis really should have taken advantage of Voyager going missing after looking for one of their ships. They could have sent a coded message to all Starfleet outposts in the sector saying "Dear Starfleet. Voyager fucked around and found out. Stay out of our patch, Yours sincerely, the people you sold out."
DS9 really should have at least mentioned Voyager's disappearance. You're not telling me Odo wouldn't have been side-eying Quark for being the most recent person to take Harry Kim for a chump.
Odo thinking that Quark took out a whole ship to get rid of like one person is the funniest thing ever
i love when a character has something terrible happen to them and as a result they see themself as, essentially if not literally, a ghost. and so that means they only can (and have to) do what ghosts do, ie get revenge and then cease to exist. easy as that. but then halfway through this ghost vengeance they realize hey actually i might still be a human person. with human needs. that’s incredibly inconvenient, considering how much i’ve invested in this whole ghost thing
#prev prev#the scene in timeless by cara loup where chakotay basically forces harry to have a breakdown and sits with him through the aftermath#because their plan CANT succeed if he keeps trying to think of himself as a robot#and harry NEEDS to process his grief and shame.#and he comes out hollower but he comes out human#(that’s my fav fic of all time btw. it rewired my brain and saved my life)#(please read it)
people who think harry kim is a boring character simply do not understand the horror and the comedy of being someone who for all intents and purposes should be destined for great things (see: non sequitur) but is instead facing a life spent trapped in a survival situation with the most unhinged codependent mildly toxic found family imaginable
My one problem with Star Trek is that no one is ever consuming contemporary media. As in media that's contemporary for their time period. Everyone is always reading old novels and practicing classical music. They study Klingon Opera or read old Cardassian mysteries. No one is ever like really into obscure Klingon Nightcore. Nobody is reading shitty Ferengi pulp novels. There's no kids media of any kind. Where is space Sesame Street or junior novels about gaining superpowers from a warp core accident? What about comic books? Nobody is playing crappy indy holodeck games. It's always some recreation of a historical battle or just lounging in a mud pit at some alien spa. Someone give me angsty Bajoran protest music. I need some rebellious teens producing the worst most cacophonous death metal techno that they recorded in an empty cargo bay. I need contemporary pop culture in Star Trek.
I realize you made a sacrifice for me, but it’s not one I would have allowed you to make.
Concept: Vulcan clowns that exist solely to exhibit and discourage illogical behavior for children.