Harrison Ford was almost run-over by Star Trek: Voyager star Garrett Wang at Paramount lot

By the 90s, Harrison Ford was already the star in three major movie franchises. 

But even that couldn’t protect him from what was almost a terrible accident with a car. 

Star Trek: Voyager actor Garrett Wang revealed that in 1994 he nearly ran-over the Star Wars actor in a movie studio parking lot. 

Speaking on his new The Delta Flyers podcast, with fellow Voyager’s cast member  Robert Duncan McNeill, Wang spoke of the incident which he said would have made him ‘hated by nerds everywhere.’

The incident happened as the actor was late for an audition and was in a rush. 

‘I’m actually speeding around the [Paramount Studios] parking lot,’ he said. ‘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 brakes.’  

Continuing, he said: ‘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!’

Shocked to see Ford on the other end of the almost-accident he said: ‘I look at him, and I go “Oh my god! I almost killed Han Solo!”

Wang joked that if he didn’t slam on his brake he ‘would have been hated by nerds everywhere!’

The actor, who would go on to play Ensign Harry Kim on Voyagers, would later discover why Ford was on the lot that day. 

‘I remember reading the Variety paper, our Hollywood trade paper, the next day,’ he said. ‘And on the front page was a photo that said “Harrison Ford at Paramount Studios for the Clear and Present Danger screening.”‘

At the time, in 1994, Ford was starring in the second installment of his Jack Ryan series. 

‘He was there for that, based on the Tom Clancy novel, wearing that same suit I almost maimed him in,’ Wang said. ‘He could have been a cripple, because of me.’

Ford became a household name for his role as Han Solo in the Star Wars series, and as Indiana Jones in the namesake series.