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The very first convention that I did was in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This convention took place the weekend after Star Trek Voyager aired on television in the United States. The guest was supposed to be Kate Mulgrew.

Kate called up sick, she said, "I can't do it" so Creation Conventions, who started the whole convention scene, called me up and said 'Listen, we want you to substitute for Kate Mulgrew. I said, "Okay, what goes on at these things?" "Oh, you know, you'll just be speaking to the fans, signing some autographs." They weren't very specific about what was going to go on, I had no clue what it was about and I was the first one, nobody else had done it before in our cast.

So I showed up in Minneapolis and they called me up in my room and said, "We're going to send the head of security over, he's going to take you over to the convention site and you can check it out, and he'll escort you over to your talk." It's about a five minute walk from the hotel room to this convention centre area, and the guy who came to the door was this big, big security guy wearing a suit and he had a little microphone in his ear, so he looked very much like an American CIA agent or someone who would be guarding the President.

He said, "I'm here to escort you to your talk," so I said, "Okay," and so we're walking along and he's talking in the earpiece to people like, "Eagle One to base, are you there, this is base, come in Eagle One, yes I have Mr Wang, I'm escorting him. ETA three minutes thirty-two seconds. We're walking along, [and] every thirty seconds he's having to report to somebody else that was in the rafters or in a cellar, I don't know where. It was very comical the whole time, how serious they were.

We get right outside the door and I ask him, "How long am I going to be inside this place talking?" I had assumed it was five or ten minutes, I didn't think it was going to be for an hour. He goes, "You'll be on stage for approximately one hour, Mr Wang," and I go, "Okay. Well in that case I need to go pee." At this point he had already told them on the mic that we were right outside the door ready to go, and he looks at me and says, "No you may not, Mr Wang because they're on a schedule."

I said, "Screw that," so I turned and I ran, so he ran after. So we're running towards the bathroom and he's on his mic, "Hugo One to base, abort, abort, abort, Mr Wang is not coming in at this point, abort."

He follows me into the bathroom, so now I'm taking a piss, I'm taking a leak, a number one at the urinal with the security guard standing right next to me watching the whole thing and he's like, "No no, yes he's unzipping right now, yes, that's correct, he is taking a piss, yes okay". I'm thinking, "Thank you for sharing this with the entire world, Eagle One, Eagle Two, base, they all know it now, thank you", so I finish and I'm looking up at him, "You want to help out? Shake it off, what do you want to do?"

So then we turn around and we come into the outside doors and he goes, "Okay, Eagle One to base, we're back now, Mr Wang has finished peeing, we're standing outside the door, we're ready to go, cue the announcer". The announcer goes 'Will everyone please give a warm welcome to Harry Kim from Star Trek Voyager!"

They open up the doors and I look in there and there's over five thousand people in there, it's just a sea of people and they're giving me a standing ovation. The show's been out one episode, they're like "Haaaa!"

I walk out there and my whole body started to shake uncontrollably of fear. I could barely walk, I'm shaking, shaking, shaking, and I walk up there and I turn around and I go "I need to go pee again."

So that was my very first convention story.