Wrong answers only - WHY didn't Kim ever get promoted?

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46 Comments

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 40 pts · 147d

He didn't realise that he could just ask. And being a good boy he didn't want to appear pushy.

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 37 pts · 147d

usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 147d (2 replies)

Quark went ahead and filed that complaint about his anti-Ferengi remarks just before Voyager went MIA. Janeway takes bigotry very seriously.

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 147d (1 reply)

Funny cos I had a theory that Janeway was actually a bit MAGA and thought he was Mexican.

usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 147d

She can tolerate anything except bigots and Mexicans.

SincerityIsCool@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 147d

He didn't commit enough war crimes (lacks leadership mindset)

hansolo@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 147d (1 reply)

Simply not enough pips on board the ship.

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 147d

She likes to save those replicator rations for important things. Like coffee.

DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 147d

Sometimes you have an employee that is so good at their job you never want to replace them

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 23 pts · 147d

Garrett Wang repeatedly turned down Rick Berman's sexual advances

Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 147d (1 reply)

No one under him is qualified for bridge crew. Every single person not named in the credits on Voyager is completely incompetent. Promote Kim and you have to promote crewman Bushnell who thinks Warp drive opens a portal to hell everytime, smells awful and calls all women "females".

kieron115@startrek.website · 1 pts · 146d

He must have learned warp theory from lt. broccoli

Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 147d

If you promote him then he’s just going to take the title and leave for more money.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 147d (1 reply)

DEI was banned so only white dudes, and people who banged the captain, got promoted.

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 6 pts · 147d

Putting Tuvok's promotion in a whole new light

chellewalker@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 147d (1 reply)

He had more romantic chemistry with Seven than Janeway was willing to tolerate.

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 147d

"You fucked my pet Borg you little shit"

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 147d

They needed to keep at least ONE ensign around, and all the others got promoted or died.

helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 147d

Tom told Janeway it'd be funny if the EMH out ranked him while giving her a fresh pot of coffee.

randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 147d (2 replies)

He secretly works for Starfleet's Internal Affairs and uses his position to spy on Janeway et al.

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 147d

Its the Star Trek we need.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 6 pts · 147d

More likely he's one of those temporal cops. He brainwashed Janeway to downplay the causality problems from the final season because he couldn't let her say what really happened.

kieron115@startrek.website · 11 pts · 146d

Janeway actually did try to promote him, but he overslept and missed the promotion ceremony.

Australis13@fedia.io · 10 pts · 146d

Pips can't be replicated and Voyager only had a limited supply of spares. Janeway set aside the only spare pip for the bridge crew for Tuvok's eventual promotion.

HelluvaKick@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 147d

No virgin lieutenants allowed in Starfleet

quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 146d

Ships need ensigns to run, at least one. He was the One.

YaksDC@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 147d

There was one time before they even got into the Delta quadrant that Kim took the last pot of coffee and didn't make more.

essell@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 146d (1 reply)

Because he was an experimental ensign.

Starfleet had deliberately trained him wrong, as a joke.

kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 146d

Does that make Boimler the control ensign?

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 147d

Janeway simply forgot to.

Oh wait, you said wrong answers…

Ophioparma@feddit.org · 7 pts · 146d (1 reply)

He was promoted but Tom always hid the pins. Harry was commander in season four but nobody knew.

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 146d
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 147d

He was bad at his job and did nothing to deserve an extra pip.

/s because my conscious can’t handle stating this otherwise.

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 147d (3 replies)

The unions in Star Fleet are actually controlled by the Dominion, and as such they are ineffectual by design. Harry doesn’t know this, of course

call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 147d (2 replies)

Hey, OP said "wrong answers"

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 147d (1 reply)

We all know it’s actually the Tal Shiar

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 147d

Is that Peter Theil's drag name?

GenesisClimber@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 147d

Because he didn't go Transwarp, turn into a space salamander and have squigglings with the Captain?

TomMasz@piefed.social · 6 pts · 147d

His first name isn't really Harry, it's Hitler. Once Starfleet learned the truth, it realized it could never promote him for fear the secret would come out.

PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 147d

Shortly after he was hired , he said he had always looked up to Captain Picard. That never sat right with her.

theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 147d

Because of legal complications of being from a duplicate voyager post "Deadlock" he couldn't be promoted further than ensign.

ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social · 6 pts · 146d (1 reply)

He put cream into the Captain's coffee once and she never forgave him.

jobbies@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 146d

COFFEE. BLACK.

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website · 6 pts · 147d

At the bar celebrating his new commission aboard Voyager he met an ensign named Mariner.

CCMan1701A@startrek.website · 6 pts · 146d

The promotion pip was continuously traded for coffee rations

mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 147d

He wasn't very good at licking.

Infynis@midwest.social · 3 pts · 145d

Every time you die, or are replaced by something like an alternate universe duplicate, your seniority resets

TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website · 2 pts · 147d
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