Credits Song.
(Parody of 'Space Oddity' as performed by Chris Hadfield, Sung by Harry and Tom.)
Harry Kim to Paris Tom.
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Harry Kim to Paris Tom.
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Raise your lovely ears, and listen to my song.
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Harry Kim to Paris Tom.
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Been waiting for this for so long.
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Ever since the start, I have had a thing for you.
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This is Harry Kim to Paris Tom.
You've really done it now.
And I really want to see, under that shirt you wear.
And it's time to seize the moment, if you daaare.
This is Paris Tom to Harry Kim.
I'm seeing someone else.
And I'm also really sad to have to saaay.
That even if I wasn't, I'm not gaaay.
For yooouuu see, I'mmm happy as I just am.
Piiiiiiiiiiiilioting 'round these worlds.
This ship is my sweet, and you know she cannot be beat.
*Solo of Harry crying*
After all this shit I've done for you.
You leave me all alone.
And before too long you'll know it's,
a mistaaake.
Even Commander Chakotay can see,
you're faaake.
Harry Kim to Paris Tom,
the time is now, I've waited too long.
How I love you, Paris Tom.
How I love you, Paris Tom.
How I love you, Paris Tom.
How I loooooove you, my precious little heartsweet.
I waaant you to be mine.
There's nothing I won't do,
to spend the rest of my life with you.
*Music Fades*
Author's Notes.
1. - Reasons for Writing.
1.1 - I originally wrote this as an entry in a private little contest I was competing in.
1.2 - I liked the episode featuring the Komar, that was one of the very best episodes the series had before Seven came along, and seeing as how they never revisit them I thought it would be nice to pay homage and base my story off of the same basic idea: an alien takes over someone's body, and the spirit of a crewmember goes around possessing people, only mine would be a comedy story instead of a serious one, and it would have fun twists on the idea like how the alien doesn't actually ever do anything and the true villain of the story is the displaced crewman, so yeah, we never see the Komar again, but at the very least there's my story here with a similar situation to fill that void.
1.3 - it sounded like fun! I'm not really a fan of the Voyager crew, they all just kinda suck. ('Cept Seven.) It sounded great to be able to mock them a bit.
2. - Deleted Scenes.
2.1 - in the original draft, at the end Harry was going to try to convince everyone that the entity that took him over was the only thing jumping around controlling people and that it was pretending to be him to freak them out more, meaning he's innocent, it's a claim that they were going to find hard to believe but couldn't distinctly prove as wrong, in which case they let him keep his life and rank, but I rejected this idea in favor of the one where Janeway just lets him go out of spite.
2.2 - another idea I had but ultimately didn't use is a version of the final battle where Seven frees the Doctor as well as Harry's body, in which case the Doctor was going to try to help by throwing a bunch of water at the colored lightnings, which only results in them getting pissed and zapping his hand off, after recovering from that he was going to try to subdue them using medical tools, which would've worked to an extent, helping Seven a little bit before she finishes them off.
3. - Comments and Explanations.
3.1 - there are two reasons for the title 'Alterations', the first is just because Brandon Bullock sounds a lot like Brannon Braga, one of the lead writers for Voyager who likes to title the episodes using a single word, just look at the list of Voyager titles for proof of that, the second reason is because of all the comedic adjustments made to the various characters.
3.2 - you'll notice that the only character portrayed in a fully positive light is Seven, that's of course because she's the best character and saved the entire show, as best as what's possible anyway, so it's out of respect and love for the character, you'll also notice that the character with the second highest amount of positivity is Neelix, simply because I don't mind him in the show and he wasn't really included in the story very much, and that the character with the third highest amount is Tom, again because I don't really mind him, but he's boring as all hell most of the time so I wouldn't really call him a favorite, and finally you'll notice that the Doctor is a mixed bag of what the hell, with good respectable moments sometimes and CWC styled levels of mockery at other times, it's because I view the Doctor as a mixed bag on the show, sometimes he has good moments and sometimes he's more of just an annoying ass, I'd probably say he was the best character overall (before Seven showed up of course) if he hadn't decided to go the way of the Odo and started falling in love all over the place, though admittedly to a lesser extent than Odo did, that situation was just a mess.
3.3 - Ensign Blain actually exists on the show, yeah, I didn't just make him up, take that one, everybody who thought I did. (he barely exists.)
3.4 - Lieutenant Andrews also exists on the show, but has a much larger role than Ensign Blain, so you may have already known that he existed.
3.5 - ...I thought the twist where Harry was our main character, only for him to switch to being the villain that Seven and the Doctor defeat, was pretty cool, does that count for anything? no? I'm just wasting space now? alright, alright, I've made my notes.
Epilogue.
"Huhhh..." Tom sighs sadly as he sits at a table by himself, missing Harry.
"Hey, Tom, how's it going?" Harry suddenly asks as he slaps Tom on the shoulder like Tom had slapped him at the start of the story.
"AHHHHHH!" Tom loses his shit, turning and punching Harry's lights out "what the-YOU'RE ALIVE!?"
Harry's unconscious, soon to be dead, because of course punching people to death is yet another one of the many, many things that Tom Paris is just crazy good at for no logical reason.
"Was alive, you mean." B'Elanna comments as she sits down with her tray of breakfast across from Tom "don't worry about him, he'll be back soon, he always is."
The (100%) End.