By Chris Snellgrove
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If you understand a lot about Star Trek: Voyager, then you understand that no person on the solid complained fairly as a lot as Garrett Wang. The Ensign Kim actor generally had very righteous gripes, like when he revealed how the writers allegedly fat-shamed him and Robert Duncan McNeil by writing their latest weight achieve right into a script. Typically, his complaints are stunning, like his unsubstantiated declare that he was instructed to underact by Rick Berman so as to make the present’s aliens appear extra practical.
In reality, when he repeated a model of that grievance to a TV Information reporter, who dutifully reported {that a} Star Trek actor was badmouthing his personal TV present. To this present day, Wang is satisfied that this snafu is why he by no means obtained an opportunity to direct. Luckily for the actor, not all of his complaints fizzled out. If we had by no means complained in regards to the writing for his character being boring, then rockstar author Brannon Braga would by no means have created “Non-Sequitur,” arguably probably the greatest episodes to ever characteristic Ensign Kim.
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What’s “Non-Sequitur” about? On this story, Ensign Kim awakens in San Francisco to find that he by no means joined the Voyager crew and, thus, by no means obtained stranded within the Delta Quadrant. He nonetheless has his reminiscences from his time aboard ship, but it surely’s straightforward sufficient to neglect all of that within the arms of his scorching girlfriend. However his absence from Voyager additionally meant that Tom Paris misplaced his spot on the ship, changing into a drunken loser with no goal. Within the final “bros earlier than hoes” second, Kim groups up with Paris to revive the timeline, guaranteeing that their bromance will proceed on the opposite facet of the galaxy.
“Non-Sequitur” is a really strong Star Trek: Voyager story, particularly if (like me) you’re an enormous fan of each Harry Kim and Tom Paris. Because it seems, although, this episode would by no means have been written if Garrett Wang hadn’t complained to author and producer Brannon Braga. Because the actor confessed to The Official Star Trek: Voyager Journal, this episode “was the results of me going into the manufacturing workplace and saying….When is Harry gonna get the lady? When is he gonna have the motion?” Braga responded, “Don’t fear about it,” and went on to create “Non-Sequitur.”
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Usually talking, Wang was fairly proud of the completed outcome as a result of it delivered every thing he wished. The altered timeline of “Non-Sequitur” gave Ensign Kim a cute girlfriend, and it let him kick a bit of butt as soon as he determined to return actuality to the best way issues had been earlier than. He additionally will get to develop into a full-on motion hero, stealing a runabout, escaping Starfleet pursuit, and even beaming out into the vacuum of area, all in a determined bid to revive the timeline.
Nevertheless, this wouldn’t be a Garrett Wang story if there wasn’t another grievance. In line with the actor, he requested Brannon Braga to intersperse all of the motion and romance “all through that 12 months,” hoping Kim would develop into a extra dynamic character all through Season 2. As an alternative, Braga “put it multi functional episode.” Luckily, “Non-Sequitur” served as a enjoyable showcase for Wang’s talents as an actor, one that nearly (however not fairly) made up for what he actually wished: a promotion for his eternally underused, eternally underacting ensign.
