Played by: Garrett Wang
Rank: Ensign
Current assignment: Operations Officer: U.S.S. Voyager (ship lost and
unaccounted for SD 48307.5)
Species/gender: Human male
Year of birth: 2349
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2367-71
Marital status: Single
Last known whereabouts: The Badlands
Profile: Report of Starfleet Command Review Board
Kim had an especially promising career in engineering and analytical
operations when his life was apparently cut short along with 151 fellow
crewmembers on the ill-fated Voyager. Kim, who was engaged at the time of
his disappearance, had played clarinet in the Julliard Youth Symphony and
was editor of the Starfleet Academy newspaper for one full year, where his
series on the mounting Maquis problem fostered much campus debate.
Though he enjoyed a stellar academic career and welcomed the challenges
and adventures of exploration, Kim was a bit nervous about living up to his own
expectations.
Fresh from Starfleet Academy and somewhat naive, my Ops officer feels his
loss of home and family as a raw wound so early in his career. His genius
nearly got us home through a micro-wormhole if not for a time technicality, and
he has transported halfway home with the Sikarians. He has been "devoured"
by vengeful sentient energy beings trapped in his Beowulf holo-program,
survived the "afterlife" of the Vhnori, and returned from the dead on the
quantum level as well -- since he is actually now a twin from a duplicate
Voyager that self-destructed. I was also gratified that he helped retrieve the
Doctor from his damaged irradiated program and that he fought temptation to
stay with the "'37s."
Like myself, Kim too is estranged from a fiancee, but he became instant
friends with Paris and stuck with him despite his problems. In return I believe
he has been good-naturedly badgered to give up Libby's memory in return for
shipboard dates. I do know he is preparing a new orchestral program with Lt.
Susan Nicoletti and her oboe, (although Ensign Baytart next door does not
care for the amplified clarinet sound.) I have been a bit disappointed in his
knowledge of recent history: when mindful of the Mars colony's founding date
he had never heard of aviation pioneer and fellow Terran Amelia Earhart and
was vague on the advent and predecessor to hover cars.