(about is his character on "Star Trek: Voyager" will ever have a promotion) Garrett Wang: God only knows! This is something that Garret Wang, as an actor, has always been asking? everybody in the office, the producers. I remember one day, it was very funny, I even went up to Kate Mulgrew and asked her the question, "When am I going to get promoted?" As if Kate really has anything to do with that. That's how desperate it has become. Kim has remained an ensign for so long I think that he is going to be an ensign forever. I used to joke at some of the conventions I've gone to and somebody asks me this question, that they shoot an episode where Kim actually wakes up, he's sleepwalking, he's so distraught about not being promoted that in this time of sleepwalking, he sneaks into everybody's quarters and he steals their rank pips from the uniforms and he comes into the bridge the next morning completely delirious, he's wearing his Starfleet uniform with 150 other pips, placed all over his uniform. He comes in a uniform made of pips and that is his message to crew that he needs to be promoted. But on a serious note, I don't know, it would be nice to have a promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade at some time before the end of the show and if not, then maybe in the season finale, and if not, then maybe in the feature (film), if we ever do one. But right now, I think I'm going to be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest ensign in the galaxy.
(about when he clicked with acting and how he convinced his parents about his career move) Garrett Wang: I think I clicked with acting in my second acting class in college. That's when I realized that this is truly what I want to do. I've always been a person that's entertained people, whether it be friends of my parents, they'd come over to our house, and I would do impersonations and accents and whatnot, just to make them laugh. I've often told people that I'd probably be happy being a lounge singer in Las Vegas, as long as I'm entertaining. And did I convince my parents about my career move? It took a while. It took about five years for them to finally give in to my wishes in terms of a career. They were not supportive of me for five years and finally they gave in, and they still were definitely not into it, they weren't happy about my choice to be an actor, but about a year and a half after they gave in, so to speak, or at least gave in a little bit, I got on Voyager, so at that point they became very happy. And I realized they were more concerned with my succeeding than anything else and acting being such a difficult career to be successful in, that was the reason they weren't into my being an actor. But now they're fine with it. So it's all good.
(about his role on "Star Trek: Voyager") Garrett Wang: My goal now is to do the best job possible playing Harry Kim and to begin repaying my parents for the unaccountable financial support they have given me throughout the years
(about "Star Trek: Voyager) Garrett Wang: I have a good relationship with the other actors here. It's truly like a family and ... there's always some sort of competition, but everybody loves each other.
( Speaking of his rank on
Reporter: I understand that you like electronic music. Who are some of your favorite electronic music artists or songs? Garrett: I like Moby, I like Basement Jaxx, Chicane, I also like DJ Taylor, I like a lot of the sounds that come out of Ibiza. But mostly Trance and Hardhouse
In 2002, he did the Voice-over of his Star Trek voyager character Ensign Harry Kim on the video game "Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force"
Being of Chinese descent, his Chinese name is Wang Yi Chung, translating to "One who is admired by many".
He appeared along with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star (and "Caretaker" co-star) Armin Shimerman and Star Trek: Enterprise star Dominic Keating in the 1999 comedy The Auteur Theory.
He made his TV debut in 1994 as a guest star on the pilot episode of comedy "All American Girl".
His first acting performance outside College was the portrayal of John Lee in the lead role of Chay Yew's "Porcelain" at the burbage theater.
He lived in Indiana, then moved to Bermuda and finally to Tennessee.
He has stated that his three favorite episodes of "
He attended at UCLA to study Asian culture.
In 2001, he has been selected as one of the "20 Coolest Bachelors" in the country by E! Entertainment Television
He moved to US when he was 9.
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