Monday September 25, 1995
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Harry Kim arises one morning to find he is back in San Francisco on Earth with his girlfriend Libby. He learns that in this reality, he never served aboard Voyager, but instead works in Starship Design at Starfleet Headquarters. Desperate to set things straight, the only person who can help him is lowlife Tom Paris, who has no idea who Harry is.
Write a Recap »BRILLIANT! ....but would you have gone back???? hide show
your lost on the other side of the quadrant, everyone at home thinks you're dead, you have NO way of telling them you're alive, you are looking at a 70 year journey through unknown space with the only inhabitants known to the federation being the Borg, the odds of making it home are very low
then...
due to an anomoly in the space time continuem you are back on earth in an alternate reality, you have your job, family, beautiful fiance, everything is perfect, yet kim wants to get back ...you gotta ask yourself if that was you ...would you have returned?
It was only when i watched this epiosde again recently that i started thinking that part of me would have probably wanted to stay in that reality
the main reasons kim seems to want to get back is Tom Paris - who would have been fine anyway and Danny Bird who from the sounds of things was a bully (5:21 Juggernaught)
i dunno ...all i do know is this episode is brilliant! and Garrett Wang must have been smiling when he got the script for this one
Harry Kim wakes up in the 24th Century San Francisco. How could this be? He was just on a shuttlecraft. He is glad to see Libby, his girlfriend. He asks Libby what is today’s date. hide show
Harry Kim wakes up in the 24th Century San Francisco. How could this be? He was just on a shuttlecraft. He is glad to see Libby, his girlfriend. He asks Libby what is today’s date. He surprise to find out it is the last date he remembered, but where is “the voyager”. He finds that he is actually an engineer for a new runabout ship design. He insists he is a member of “the Voyager Crew”. He is informed he never was part of the Voyager crew. He is trying to find his way back to his reality.
'Non-Sequitur' is primarily a Harry Kim episode. It involves Harry being in a shuttle accident and being 'transported' into an alternate reality, one in which he was never on baord Voyager, but instead joined the Engineering Corps back on Earth. What I found really interesting about this episode is the attitude of the alternate Tom Paris. Is this what would have really happened to him had he not served on Voyager? Would he really have ended up as a bitter drunk who spends his days shooting pool and hanging out with 'questionable' people? I will admit however, that it was good to see him have a change of heart towards the end of the episode to help Harry return to his proper reality.
I also found it helpful to see Harry as something other than the whinging ensign. Seeing the life he would have led makes him more real somehow. Before this episode, he came off as mostly one dimensional. All you knew about him was that he was very close to his parents, so it was good to see another side of him.
The concept of 'Non-Sequitur' was well grounded and the episode was executed brilliantly. I love all alternate reality Star Trek shows, so I might be a bit bias in saying so, but I really do like this episode.
An interesting diversion to the series, however that's about all it is. hide show
In this episode, we find Harry Kim mysteriously transported back to earth in the present, where it turns out he never served on Voyager. Is this a simulation? An alien plot? A dream? Although this was a simple filler episode in my opinion, it does give a glimpse of Kim's life before Voyager, as well as well as how Tom Paris' life could have turned out had he not been on Voyager. As this is a Kim-centric episode, we do get to see how he handles himself in a strange and confusing situation - with Starfleet's professional bearing. This episode could easily be skipped, however it does allow a little more character development for Kim.
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