VOY s7e11 “Shattered”
"Ensign Kim, we hope you are readjusting well to life on Earth. We have been reviewing the reports and are finding you quite the accomplished Ensign, you were instrumental to the survival of voyager and her crew, even taking on captain duties at times. You were basically 6th or 7th in command right after the doctor. We feel continuing to call you Ensign Kim would be a disservice to all you have achieved in the past 7 years aboard Voyager.
Congratulations Super-Ensign Kim. You are dismissed."
“Executive Ensign” to make him feel good about himself.
I gave him a real rank…according to this list. https://lemmy.world/post/18114046
It’s where I first wrote this little “story”, and have been copying it when ever relevant, because why be original again :)
i nominate Kim to Petty Ensign Second Class
Executive Transvestite:
Though, she’s just Suzy these days.
Thats Harry Fuckin Kim to you!
Fair. Mi scusi.
They done Harry dirty
Even when Lower Decks brought it to the forefront, they showed that a promoted Kim is an evil Kim.
Lies! Lies and cartoonery!
also chocolate
Actually, it could be a “great filter” situation; mostly only ensign Kims end up in situations where they end up accidentally switching multiverses. Lieutenant Kims are far less likely to end up in such a situation, thus the small sample size.
Interestingly, we see an okudagram in PRO that confirms prime Harry hit Lieutenant by 2384. Unfortunately, I can’t post it, as my instance is updating my image storage infrastructure right now.
They threw him a bone for the upcoming Academy.
I feel a bit insulted that Bashir didn’t even make Lieutenant Commander in his entire life in Starfleet, considering he was very young when we last saw him.
His advancement was likely curtailed after everyone found out he was genetically enhanced.
The weird thing about that is I feel like whoever are Bashir’s commanding officers during the rest of his career would have had to have hand-picked him despite that, and thus wouldn’t have qualms about promoting him either.
