He really did die in the episode where a Negative Space Wedgie duplicated the ship. The duplicate had the sense to send over his replacement (and that of Ensign Wildman's newborn daughter, who also got killed) before it blew up. Oddly, many in The Other Wiki fail to recognize this. And since Status Quo Is God, no one ever mentioned this again. They don't even see fit to hold a memorial service for the original Harry — they just welcome the duplicate on-board and pretend he was the real deal all along. He's a 100% identical clone, created only a day or so before the original Harry's death. Aside from a minor divergence of memory, he is the real deal.
Except without Harry Kim's soul, perhaps. Then again, all of the Star Trek characters probably lose their soul whenever they get beamed from one place to another.
Or he has his original soul, and the rest of the crew don't. Or the soul has the good sense to go to the new body when a crewmember is teleported, and Harry's went from dead body to live body, or got temporarily split between them, or it's a sci-fi show so the topic of souls isn't important and doesn't make all the much sense.
In the Metaphysics of Star Trek, the author uses the concept of "Closest continuer" to get around the Transporter problem (Was it the real you that was disintigrated, and the one who arrives at the other end is just a soulless copy?) In terms of the Closest Continuer, the "Copy" is most like the original, and therefore essentially IS the original. Then again, there's The Prestige.
The writers of Star trek, regardless of whatever their personal beliefs are, seem to mostly follow Gene Roddenberry's Atheist views. ergo, Harry doesn't have a soul, so there's no complication.
And when the Romulans are desensitizing him after he's been captured? They have him kill O'Brien.
Look at the bright side. It's not as though Geordi would have actually gotten any of said poontang had he made it to Risa.
Are we sure? If Curzon Dax (appearance as seen in the flashback in the Deep Space Nine pilot) could have, Geordi shouldn't have a problem. (Though Curzon Dax is a Kavorka Man with a slug with 200 years of memories inside him, so...)
I deleted this when cleaning natter. Some of it might be relevent, but remember that we don't want conversation on the main page.
Star Trek: Voyager
- And when the Romulans are desensitizing him after he's been captured? They have him kill O'Brien.
- Look at the bright side. It's not as though Geordi would have actually gotten any of said poontang had he made it to Risa.
- Are we sure? If Curzon Dax (appearance as seen in the flashback in the Deep Space Nine pilot) could have, Geordi shouldn't have a problem. (Though Curzon Dax is a Kavorka Man with a slug with 200 years of memories inside him, so...)
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