Why ‘Star Trek’ Actor Garrett Wang (More or Less) Left Hollywood for a Decade-and-a-Half
“Star Trek: Voyager” actor Garrett Wang offered to Geeks Against Trump why he (mostly) left Hollywood for 14 years. He claimed that TV Guide reported criticism by Wang of the show though the reporter said his recorder was off. The story upset “Star Trek” directors, Wang said at the Spring FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention 2019. Wang got another agent just two weeks before speaking in early April with Geeks Against Trump.
Wang played Ensign Harry Kim for 176 episodes from 1995–2001 in “Star Trek: Voyager,” according to IMDb.
Wang was born in Riverside, Calif., two Taiwanese immigrant parents who moved to Indiana before going to Bermuda, Memphis, Tenn. and then back to Bermuda. Wang relocated from Los Angeles, Calif., to Las Vegas, Nev., in 2008, according to a Twitch profile of Wang.
That relocation was to get away from Hollywood and forge a new life, Wang claimed to Geeks Against Trump.
Wang attended Harding Academy High School in Memphis before relocating to Los Angeles to go to the University of California-Los Angeles to study premedicine. However, from there, he went through many majors, from biology to political science to history to economics before settling on Asian studies. Each of his upper-level elective courses…
