Harry Kim

Harry S.L. Kim (played by Garrett Wang) was a human Starfleet officer who is best known for serving as operations manager aboard the starship USS Voyager during the seven years it was lost in the Delta Quadrant.

Starfleet Academy
Kim attended Starfleet Academy from 2367 to 2370. During his last year at the Academy, he had a roommate named James Mooney MacAllister, who studied excessively, even at night. This forced Kim to wear an eye mask to help sleep, it also reminded him of his mother's womb of which he retains memories. He still retains the habit. McAllister helped Kim in his fourth year Quantum Chemistry class.

During his academy years he became close friends with Lyndsay Ballard, who lived across the hall in the student dorm. He even changed his class schedule so he would be in the same classes as Ballard. She taught him to iceskate, despite his dislike for cold weather. He never mentioned to her that he had a crush on her, not until he met her again in 2376.

Kim was editor of the school newpaper his senior year. As editor, he monitored subspace transmissions, where he got reports from some of the first activity by the Maquis against the Cardassians after the signing of the Treaty of 2370. Without advising his professor, Kim wrote an editorial on the potentially controversial topic and the cadets became polarized on the issue. They debated the pros and cons of the subject and through his article, gained an insight into the entire history of the Maquis political rebellion.

He was also a talented Parrises squares player, and was Academy champion three times.

Harry graduated from the Academy as valedictorian of his class, having earned Interstellar Honors, on stardate 47918. He requested duty aboard the USS Voyager on stardate 47923 and was given his first field assignment as a bridge officer aboard Voyager early the following year.

Aboard Voyager
During Voyager's maiden voyage, the ship was transported to the Delta Quadrant, by the Caretaker's Array. A Maquis ship also was transported. After both crew were subjected to various medical tests, they were returned to their ships. Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres, a maquis, were not. They were transferred to an undergroud Ocampa medical facility by the Caretaker. They escape and try to find there way to the surface. They would be rescued by Voyager.

In 2372 Voyager was accidentally duplicated by a spatial scission phenomenon. Each unaware of the others' existence, both tried to stabilise their rapidly draining antimatter supply with a series of proton bursts. One of the two ships, slightly phased apart from the other, fired protons first, heavily damaging the other in the process, the damage also caused the infant Naomi Wildman to die in her failed delivery operation. The Harry Kim from the damaged Voyager was killed after being sucked through a hull breach. When the undamaged ship was forced to self-destruct after being overrun by Vidiian forces, that ships' Harry Kim took the infant Naomi Wildman and travelled to the other ship.

At the end of the year, Voyager arrived at Borg Space. They found a passage that seemed devoid of any Borg. After a fleet of cubes had passed Voyager, ignoring it, Kim determined that the fleet had been destroyed. Upon investigating the debris he was attacked by Species 8472 and wounded. His body is invaded by alien cells that are destroying his own cells. He is cured when the doctor uses Borg nanoprobes to cure him.

Kim and the Doctor were the only members of the crew not put into the Hirogen holo-program hunts after they captured Voyager. Kim was forced to continue to expand and upgrade the hunting holoprograms. He would work on a way to disable the neural blockers used by the Hirogens, so the crew could remember who they were. He was successful and helped rescue the crew by disabling the holoprograms.

In the last year of Voyager's journey home, Kim would help defeat the Borg and destroy Unimatrix Zero. Enter a galatic space race, only to find out that the woman he had feelings for, Irina, was a terrorist trying to sabotage the race. He was part of an away team capture by a race that had its world poisoned by an early earth probe.

Kim would return to the Alpha Quadrant aboard Voyager, after one last battle with the Borg.

In 2387 Harry, now a Lieutenant Commander was assigned to the USS Pioneer and became the ship's Science Officer and Second Officer. By this time, he and Libby had gotten back together and were married and living together on the ship. (Star Trek: Pioneer).

Alternate Timelines
In one alternate timeline created in 2371, Harry found himself back in San Francisco, assigned to the Starfleet Engineer Corps, living with Libby, who was at the time his fiancee. His shuttle enter an alien time stream that changed his timeline. He is helped by Cosimo, one of the aliens, and the Paris of this timeline, to return to Voyager.

In another timeline, Harry married Linnis Paris, the daughter of Tom Paris and Kes. The couple had a son, named Andrew.

In still another timeline, Harry and Chakotay flew the Delta Flyer to Earth after Voyager was destroyed due to a mistake of Harry's. Fifteen years later, as fugitives, they found Voyager and "fixed" history.

In yet another timeline, Harry Kim would command the USS Rhode Island as captain, in the year 2400.

Personal Life
Harry Kim was born in South Carolina in 2349. His personal interests include sports and music.

Kim's favorite sports included volleyball and Velocity. As a cadet at Starfleet Academy, Kim was involved in numerous athletic events as both the captain of the Velocity team and a three-time Academy champion of Parrises squares. Aboard Voyager, Kim is often seen enjoying a game of Kal-toh with Tuvok, although he is unable to defeat the Vulcan officer during the seven years of Voyager's return trip to the Alpha Quadrant.

Kim also played clarinet in the Julliard Youth Symphony. When Kim served on the USS Voyager, he forgot his clarinet. He later replicated one with his replicator rations and went on to perform with a jazz combo of officers, "Harry Kim and the Kimtones."

Kim had a girlfriend named Libby, whom he met, by accident, at a Ktarian music festival, where he was sitting in her seat. After the incident, it took Kim three weeks to work up the courage to ask her on a date. After Voyager became stranded in the Delta Quadrant, in 2371, Kim would also long hold on to his love for Libby and often waking up in the middle of the night calling her name, hoping for a response.

Despite his continued affection for Libby, Kim had many failed relationship attempts while aboard Voyager. He confesses to a long-held infatuation with Academy classmate Lyndsay Ballard, who died during an away mission and is then revived by an alien race known as the Kobali. Kim's other failed infatuations include crewmate Megan Delaney, a holographic character named Marayna, and an alien terrorist named Irina.

In 2374, Kim became infatuated with Seven of Nine, shortly after she was released from the Borg Collective. Seven, however, did not return the attraction due to her incomplete understanding on human culture. When she confronted Kim regarding his feelings for her, she attempted to initiate an intimate encounter with him, forcing an awkward Kim to defuse the situation. The result of their encounter, however, did set the foundation for developing a friendship.

In 2375, Kim became involved in a forbidden affair with a Varro engineer named Derran Tahl. Harry would fall deeply in love with Tahl, in part, because of a special bond created between the two, called olan'vora, which he contracted following intimate relations with the Varro.

After Voyager became stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Kim became good friends with Tom Paris. Together they often spent much time together in the holodeck. In Tom's opinion, Harry always falls in love with the wrong women.

Kim was very close to his parents, Mary Kim and John Kim. He was always in contact with them every week, even during his training missions.