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Charles Chun (born 28 February 1967; age 57) is the actor who played the Enterprise junior lieutenant engineer in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fifth season episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". It was his first guest-starring role on television. Chun also lent his voice to the Star Trek computer games Star Trek: Armada II and Star Trek: Bridge Commander.
Chun is probably now best known for his recurring role as Doctor Wen in the hit comedy series Scrubs. Star Trek: The Next Generation guest star Ken Jenkins plays Doctor Bob Kelso in the series. Chun's first acting roles came in 1994. He played a technician in Beverly Hills Cop III and a Korean Olympian in Pentathlon. Daniel Riordan and Barry Lynch also starred. Also in 1994, Chun starred in the hit movie Dumb and Dumber. Mike Starr and the late Charles Rocket also starred in the movie. Chun starred with DS9 star Wallace Shawn and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock star Christopher Lloyd in My Favorite Martian. Chun has also appeared in the films The Interview, Next,
Chun has also made guest appearances in NYPD Blue, Charmed, ER, Becker, Everybody Loves Raymond, 24, Boston Legal, and Criminal Minds.
External links
- Charles S. Chun at Wikipedia
- Charles S. Chun at the Internet Movie Database
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- Charles S. Chun at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works