Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Harry Kim
2. Decks The Hall (With Boughs Of Harry)
Out of the twelfth door of the Star Trek advent calendar last year poured a cornucopia of Kims. The Lower Decks episode Fissure Quest marked Garrett Wang's return to canon, and to several, all-but-one unpromoted, Harrys aboard the universe-hopping USS Anaximander.
In an interview with TrekMovie at the time, Wang revealed that the writers had devised several unique descriptors for each of the Harrys in Fissure Quest (such as "Two-Pip Kim," Tall Socks Kim," and "Drive Uniform Kim") — a helpful "anchor" for the actor to separate his performances. Though not part of the line-up, Wang also stated that Prime Kim or "Kim Kim" hadn't been promoted by that point (i.e., by 2382).
Speaking of promotions, in February 2024, Star Trek: Picard third season showrunner Terry Matalas also revealed that the original draft of Frontier Day had featured CAPTAIN Harry Kim of the Voyager-B. Kim was ultimately written out because, as Matalas pointed out, they didn't want to "step on [the] toes" of Star Trek: Prodigy at the time.
In the interview with TrekMovie, Wang didn't hide his disappointment. According to him, the conversation about Picard had gone "all the way to [his] manager saying, 'You've been cast'," initially for three episodes, then two, then one, then none. Of course, Wang never did appear in Prodigy either. As for Kim at Frontier Day, it was perhaps better safe than assimilated, as they say, and for Admiral Shelby, his replacement, not even that!