Star Trek can get bizarre typically, particularly in the event you’re Harry Kim. The character was finished soiled by Voyager repeatedly, together with one notorious episode by which he was killed off and changed completely by a replica. I had an opportunity to speak to actor Garrett Wang about this weird episode, “Impasse,” and his true emotions about the way it performed out.
As we put together for upcoming Trek exhibits on the 2025 TV schedule, I had an opportunity to talk to Wang about his latest return as Harry Kim on Decrease Decks and about a few of his previous occasions engaged on Voyager. This included speaking in regards to the time the Prime Timeline’s Harry Kim was sucked out of a hull breach and died, and he was changed by one other model of himself from a ship of doppelgängers. Right here is how Garrett Wang felt about it on the time:
I believed, ‘What simply occurred?’ However actually, in my logical mind, I stored considering, ‘OK, he’s a precise duplicate of Prime Harry. There is no distinction in anyway.’ So it is effective. I am OK with it. I am not gonna assume twice about that.
Whereas Wang was miffed that Harry Kim was by no means promoted on Star Trek: Voyager, this WTF Voyager second wasn’t as large of a problem for him. As he mentioned above, the characters are virtually equivalent, with the identical origin and background, so it is not like the opposite one needed to do a ton of labor to convey himself on top of things on this new universe. I am glad to listen to that, and I really feel like Garrett Wang writing it off makes it simpler for me to be alright with the change as a fan of Voyager.
So far as we all know, Harry Kim is useless. That mentioned, we have seen more odd issues occur to Starfleet officers, and typically, an assured dying is not as everlasting because the viewer thinks. Garrett Wang has a concept that Prime Kim survived being sucked out of the airlock and had a pitch for bringing the character again to the Star Trek universe:
My [imagined] storyline was the Prime Harry that will get sucked within the house is definitely beamed aboard a floating Borg sphere that’s truly sort of hanging out close by, they usually discover that Voyager is simply discarding their youngest officers out of an airlock. And they also beam him aboard, and Borg Kim finally ends up changing into the key weapon of the Borg Queen to get Seven of 9 again. In order that was my concept for a future storyline of what may have occurred.
Positive, Wang has a wild concept, however I can not sit right here and act like I would not wish to see it. If the much-requested Star Trek: Legacy sequence ever occurs, I might need Prime Borg Kim to be the primary large unhealthy that Captain Seven of 9 needed to tackle within the sequence. Not solely would that be an superior story, it might additionally give us one other alternative to see Wang as Kim!
For now, we get a wholesome dose of Harry Kim within the Star Trek: Decrease Decks episode “Fissure Quest.” The episode has made waves for giving us a slew of Harrys from the multiverse, together with one who was promoted. Those that have not seen it but ought to hearth up that Paramount+ subscription instantly, particularly in the event that they’re followers of Voyager.
Catch Star Trek: Decrease Decks and Voyager on Paramount+, the house for many content material from the franchise. With 2025 simply across the nook, I am thrilled to see Part 31 and Unusual New Worlds Season 3, and hopefully, we get another shock bulletins about what’s forward for Trek within the coming years.