Age: 57
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Garrett Richard Wang (born December 15, 1968) is an American actor. Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek: Voyager as Ensign Harry Kim. Early life Wang was born in Riverside, California, to Chinese immigrant parents who moved to Indiana and then to Bermuda, Memphis, Tennessee and then back to California. He moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2008. Wang graduated from Harding Academy High School in Memphis, Tennessee. Wang then moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA to major in pre-med. He switched majors multiple times, going from Biology to Political Science to History to Economics and finally Asian Studies with all his upper division electives in Theater. Career Wang is best known for his role as Ensign Harry Kim on Voyager which ran from 1995 to 2001. He was keen to participate in a new role for the 2007 fan production Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, saying, "it’s always more challenging for an actor to play the bad guy." Wang also made an appearance in the television series All American Girl episode "Submission:Impossible" as Raymond Han. In 2010 Wang was named the Director of the Trek Track for Dragon Con. Wang recently participated at the Calgary Expo 2012 Comicon, interviewing Stan Lee and being present at a booth among other exhibitors, as well as being a surprise speaker at TNG Exposed. Star Trek From early childhood on, actor Garrett Wang was a science fiction fan, in particular Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. Wang watched all the Star Trek films that came out in the theaters but never really got into Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) prior to working on Voyager. The first season one TNG episode he watched was "Code of Honor", which Garrett says is widely considered by all Trek writers to be the worst episode of Star Trek ever produced. On three separate occasions (in a span of a year and a half) he tried to watch TNG again and it was always a repeat of "Code of Honor". Wang considers this a good thing, as he believes if he was a huge fan of TNG, he might have been so nervous during his auditions for Voyager that he might have ended up losing the role altogether.
Garrett Wang
Samson the Box Tank Engine
for Samson the Box Tank Engine in The Railway Series (Books 1 through 7)
Suggested by ltathena
"Dear Christopher, here is your friend Thomas the Tank Engine. He wanted to come out of his station yard and see the world. These stories tell you how he did it. I hope you will like them because you helped me to make them! Your loving daddy..." Once upon a time on the Island of Sodor in the 1920s... many of the big tender engines are teasing Edward that he will not be allowed out because he is too weak, but when the driver sees him upset he offers to take him out. From there a series of grand adventures begins as our guide is Lady the Golden Engine - our singer and storyteller - as a bullysome quintet of big tender engines tries to take some of them under their wing like Gordon and Henry only to fail. Soon, a small engine named Thomas comes to straighten out Vicarstown Yards but will long to see the world outside the yard. After helping rescue a new engine named James who is also eager to prove himself, Thomas gets to run the restored branch line from Tidmouth to Ffarquhar on the western side of Sodor. Soon, labor difficulties and the pace of modernization begins to cause problems for the big engines that only an engine called Percy can help sort out and Thomas gets a new recruit for his branch line in Toby to help out with stone deliveries along the Quarry Tramroad. Henry soon gets a long-overdue rebuilt from a male LNER hybrid engine into a female LMS engine as a new lease on life.
