by Chris Snelgrove
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Most Star Trek fans would agree on that Picard It was somewhat uneven in its first two seasons, but managed to hold down the drop for season three. However, one legend from this venerable franchise recently revealed that his planned appearance was cut entirely, and this killer show could have made the final season even better. Voyager Actor Garrett Wang revealed that he will be included in the film Picard Season 3 as a Starfleet captain but was cut from the show entirely.
Harry Kim loses again
This came in Garrett Wang's extensive interview with TrekMovie that covered everything from his hilarious take on the movie Basement floors His cameo aborted Picard veil. Originally, he was intended to play a narrative role similar to Shelby, the aspiring leader of… TNG The two-part “Best of Both Worlds” which appeared later Picard As an admiral. Idea included Voyager The Graduate never materialized, but the actor described how close that idea came to happening.
according to Garrett WangHe has already received confirmation from his manager that he has been selected Picard Season 3. However, the planned sequel was still cut. As he put it, he originally had “a three-episode arc, then it changed to two, then it changed to one.” However, his manager told him that he would need to be in Los Angeles for the costume design and that plans for his appearance had advanced enough for his character's name to appear in the scripts.
It was actually Garrett Wang's Voyager Costar (born Picard Normal) Jeri Ryan who broke the news about how suddenly he was exiting the show. I told him that his character was written into the script, but after a round of revisions, Kim's character was nowhere to be seen. This left Wang “depressed for several months afterwards”, although he eventually got a second chance at a comeback thanks to an appearance in a hilarious episode of Life. Basement floors.
Picard's loss
Now, why are we so confident that Garrett Wang would have done that? PicardExcellent final season better? For one thing, his appearance could have been more impressive than Admiral Shelby's. Fans only spent two episodes with Shelby while we spent seven years with Ensign Kim, and his surprise appearance was every bit as memorable and touching as when Tim Ross reprized Tuvok's character in the final episode.
In addition, there are a few Star Trek An actor more passionate about the franchise than Garrett Wang, and he would have gotten the most out of the film Picard veil. For context, this actor takes time out of his busy schedule every year to serve as Trek Track Director for Dragon Con, Bigger and Better Science fiction And the Imagination Convention in the Southeast. This is someone who forgets to just sign a few autographs to make sure his thousands of fans have the best time every year, and he would certainly use his role to continue delighting fans in his own emotional way.
Finally, there's a fair argument that Garrett Wang is worthy Picard cameo, especially after the actor's horrific story about being punished Voyager. On this last show, he claimed that he was banned from directing episodes, that he felt extremely self-conscious about his weight gain, and that his character kept the pennant, all because he rubbed some producers' noses the wrong way. A brief appearance wouldn't magically fix all that, but writing Kim as a leader could have belatedly made up for keeping him the lowly Voyager boy for so long.
However, things worked out for Garrett Wang. He didn't get his due Picard cameo, but he got a cameo in one of them Basement floors“Best episodes. And he and Voyager com. costar Robert Duncan MacNeil Continue to entertain fans with the fantastic Delta Flyer podcast, a show every Star Trek fan owes it to themselves to check out. As for us, we do not yet know what the future of this franchise is, but we do know one thing: Paramount Seriously needs to write: the more wang, the better.
source: Trickfilm
