Garrett Wang joins Star Trek Axanar.

[Mage]

Star Trek Axanar is a fan film, with a cast that already sports quite the list of Trek actors.

Now, Garrett Wang has joined the cast as Klingon, commanding the first D7 battlecruiser to enter the war with the Federation in the 23rd century.

Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/194429923/star-trek-axanar/posts/952445

For those who haven't seen it, the creators have made something called Prelude To Axanar, a sort of documentary, filmed as if participants of the Four Year War are being interviewed about what happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Good. Something to do.

 

[Drone]

C'mon. He's been kept quite busy on the convention emceeing front for quite some time, thank you very much!!!!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Garrrett was a great con guest when I saw him, one of the best

Funny, personable, down to earth, talked to people during the break over lunch.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I know why he got to stay but why was he originally going to be fired from Voyager?

 

[JeffinOakland]

Tardiness and attitude.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Ah, I see. I'm guessing some of the attitude came from his character's lack of promotion?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Couldn't remember his lines, showed up late, still in the same clothes stinking of booze with (this isn't bad but it's just the truth) a different girl in tow wearing a visitors pass every day.

"Unprofessionalism".

It was a Wang problem not a Kim problem.

It got so bad that he was banned (that's not the right word?) from two episodes in season 3.

He wasn't in them, asked to stay home, which effectively cost him inbetween 40 to 60 thousand dollars from lost wages.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Geez, what a tool! Makes me dislike Harry even more than I already do.

 

[JeffinOakland]

Wang has always had a weird attitude about his ST experience. He has two major beefs.

1. He resents not being allowed to direct episode(s) and never seems to have considered the possibility that his lack of professionalism caused a lack of faith in the ST powers that be. You don't get promoted to supervisor unless you prove you can supervise yourself.

2. He has, to this day, taken it extremely personally that his fictional character on a tv show was never promoted. He still rants about it.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Maybe the producers should have stuck with their original plan. I feel bad for Jennifer Lien.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

It's kinda sad, because I always thought it was the writers/producers not giving us a strong Asian male character....but, shame on you Mr. Wang, it wasn't all on them.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

At the con I saw him at (where as I said he was a great guest, much better than many of them) he was complaining he wasn't allowed to do comedy on VOY.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Geez, what a tool! Makes me dislike Harry even more than I already do.

I was going to make some argument about how Garret was still a kid, and playing as hard as you work is supposed to be how you take care of business in Burbank...

In 1997, Garret Dick Wang was 29 years old.

 

[Makarov]

Yeah I don't get the Garret Wang hate here. I think he has a point if others were allowed to direct and he was never given the chance. Who are we to speculate that the reason they didn't give him a shot at it was because of his tardiness or something.

 

[JeffinOakland]

Being allowed to direct is a kind of promotion. A leadership position given to those who have proven they can at like adults and lead themselves. Director training costs money and time. Why spend either on someone who can't handle even basic responsibilities like showing up on time in clean clothes.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Oh no. Why he was almost fired is a different set of problems from why he didn't wind up behind the camera.

Why Garret wasn't allowed/asked to direct is because he left as soon as his shooting was finished.

The rest of the cast that had directing jobs on Voyager, stayed on their own time, helped out and learnt the fundamentals and here's the biggy "They asked if they could direct."

 

[Makarov]

That's pure speculation that the reason he never directed was because they were holding that against him. From what I've read he just didn't pester them about it but instead was patient and missed his chance while letting others have a crack at it.

 

[Melakon]

At the con I saw him at (where as I said he was a great guest, much better than many of them) he was complaining he wasn't allowed to do comedy on VOY.

I remember reading that somewhere, it might have been one of your posts or an interview somewhere.

I thought his work on screen as Kim was acceptable, but rarely exceptional. His older Harry in "Timeless" was probably some of his best work.

But if they couldn't depend on him consistently offscreen, he deserved to be booted, regardless of his performances. He's lucky he had a pretty face.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If I believe all the gross caustic stereotypes completely, women prefer a good bum before they worry about how handsome some bugge's face is.