Harrison Ford Was Nearly Killed By One Of Star Trek’s Stars
Garrett Wang played the never promoted Ensign Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager, and it was his first big acting role. But on his way to getting the part, he nearly killed Harrison Ford.
Here’s how he told the story of auditioning to get the role of Harry on his podcast with fellow Voyager alum Robert Duncan McNeill, The Delta Flyers…
“I’m actually speeding around the parking lot, and I come around this one bend, and this guy in a suit walks between two cars right in front of my car, so I slam on my breaks… You know when you almost have an accident; your heart is beating a thousand miles a minute? I lock eyes with this dude in the suit, and it’s Harrison Ford! I look at him, and I go ‘Oh my god! I almost killed Han Solo!’ I would have been hated by nerds everywhere!”
Apparently, Ford was on the Paramount Studios lot for a specific purpose, as Garrett found out the next day…
“I remember reading the Variety paper, our Hollywood trade paper, the next day, and on the front page was a photo that said ‘Harrison Ford at Paramount Studios for the Clear and Present Danger screening.’ He was there for that, based on the Tom Clancy novel, wearing that same suit I almost maimed him in. He could have been a cripple, because of me.”
Afterward, Harrison Ford went on to not die and make many more movies. Meanwhile, Garrett Wang got the part on Star Trek: Voyager where he manned a console for seven seasons and stayed an Ensign the entire time.
