# Six Degrees of Star Trek **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770 "2007-02-11T22:33:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/1 "2007-02-11T22:33:42Z")
You all know the routine. Go from one actor to another. Start with a Star Trek actor. Once you’ve solved one, post yours. Shatner to Tom Cruise. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/2 "2007-02-11T22:49:56Z")
Shatner was in “National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon” with Emilio Estevez Estevez was in “The Outsiders” with Cruise - George Takei to Elvis Presley ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/3 "2007-02-12T00:12:20Z")
[QUOTE=astorian] George Takei to Elvis Presley [/QUOTE] George Takei appeared on a segment of **Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre** with Bob Hope Bob Hope worked with Ann-Margret in **Bob Hope’s Overseas Christmas Tours** Ann-Margret starred in **Viva Las Vegas** with Elvis Presley Nichelle Nichols and Chloe Sevigny ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/4 "2007-02-12T00:52:25Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Nichelle Nichols and Chloe Sevigny [/QUOTE] Nichelle was in Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr. Cuba Gooding Jr was in Radio with Ed Harris Ed Harris was in Apollo 13 with Bill Paxton Bill Paxton was in Big Love with Chloe Sevigny How about Dominic Keating to Samuel L Jackson – IG ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/5 "2007-02-12T00:55:32Z")
Astorian: You did it more quckly than I could have! Nicely done. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/6 "2007-02-12T03:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=Improv Geek] How about Dominic Keating to Samuel L Jackson – IG [/QUOTE] Dominic Keating starred on **Enterprise** Stephen Culp made numerous (and simultaneous) guest appearances on **Enterprise** and **The West Wing** , starring John Spencer John Spencer and Samuel Jackson were both featured in **Sea of Love** Grace Lee Whitney and Scarlett Johansson ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/7 "2007-02-12T14:42:44Z")
Tough one: Grace Lee Whitney was on one episode of Gunsmoke on which Burt Reynolds had a recurring role. Burt was in Dukes of Hazzard with Johnny Knoxville. Johnny had a small role in Coyote Ugly with Jack McGee also in a small role. Jack was in The Man Who Wasn’t There with Scarlett. Leonard Nimoy and John Wayne ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/8 "2007-02-12T14:45:58Z")
Easy. Nimoy was in The Cage with Jeffrey Hunter. Jeffrey Hunter was in The Searchers with John Wayne. Nichelle Nichols to Jack Nicholson. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/9 "2007-02-12T14:48:38Z")
Nichelle Nichols to Jack Nicholson. --\> Nichelle was in Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr. Cuba Gooding Jr. was in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise Cruise was in A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson Gates McFadden to Jodie Foster ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/10 "2007-02-12T14:51:46Z")
[QUOTE=Smitty] Leonard Nimoy and John Wayne [/QUOTE] Too late, but George Takei was in The Green Berets with Wayne, and of course TOS with Nimoy. William Shatner and Humphrey Bogart. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/11 "2007-02-12T16:19:50Z")
[QUOTE=Improv Geek] Gates McFadden to Jodie Foster [/QUOTE] McFadden was in _The Hunt for Red October_ with Alec Baldwin (playing Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ryan). Baldwin and Tom Skerritt in _Path to War_ (playing Macnamara and Westmoreland). Skerritt and Foster in _Contact_ (playing whoever it is they were playing - I wasn’t paying much attention). > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > William Shatner and Humphrey Bogart. Bogart and Gig Young (_The Desperate Hours_) Young and Kareen Abdul-Jabbar (_Game of Death_) Abdul-Jabbal and Robert Hays or Julie Haggarty or Lloyd Bridges or Chuck Connors or Peter Graves or Stephen Stucker (_Airplane!_) Hays (or one of the others listed above) and Shatner (_Airplane II: The Sequel_) Try W.C. Fields and Robin Curtis. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/12 "2007-02-12T16:24:27Z")
Wil Wheaton and Rudolph Valentino ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/13 "2007-02-12T17:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Improv Geek] Nichelle Nichols to Jack Nicholson. –\> Nichelle was in Snow Dogs with Cuba Gooding Jr. Cuba Gooding Jr. was in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise Cruise was in A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson [/QUOTE] Cuba Gooding Jr. was also in **A Few Good Men**. He was one of the soldiers testifying that Kendrick ordered the men not to touch the kid who later died. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/14 "2007-02-12T17:52:06Z")
Whoops, I just linked WC Fields to himself. Please ignore! ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/15 "2007-02-12T18:07:29Z")
Okay: Robin Curtis was in **Ghost Story** with Fred Astaire. Fred Astaire was in **The Ziegfeld Follies** , featuring Lucille Ball Lucille Ball was a guest on **The Bob Hope Show** Bob Hope was in **The Big Broadcast of 1938** with WC Fields Next! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/16 "2007-02-12T18:10:28Z")
All the actors acted with Frank Gorshin in Last Battefield. Gorshin acted with Adam West in Batman Adam West acted with my daughter in Pete and Pete My daughter always acted up with me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/17 "2007-02-12T18:21:42Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t Call Me Shirley] Wil Wheaton and Rudolph Valentino [/QUOTE] Wil Wheaton co-starred on **TNG** with Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi was featured in **Beverly Hills Brats** with Ruby Keeler Ruby was in \*\*42nd Street \*\*with Bebe Daniels Bebe Daniels starred with Valentino in **Monsieur Beaucaire** Walter Koenig to Grace Kelly, without going through other **Trek** actors ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/18 "2007-02-12T18:33:04Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Bogart and Gig Young (_The Desperate Hours_) Young and Kareen Abdul-Jabbar (_Game of Death_) Abdul-Jabbal and Robert Hays or Julie Haggarty or Lloyd Bridges or Chuck Connors or Peter Graves or Stephen Stucker (_Airplane!_) Hays (or one of the others listed above) and Shatner (_Airplane II: The Sequel_) [/QUOTE] Wow. I was just going for [Elisha Cook, Jr.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176879/) who played Kirk’s attorney, Cogley also played Wilmer in _The Maltest Falcon_ with Bogart. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/19 "2007-02-12T18:46:16Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Wow. I was just going for [Elisha Cook, Jr.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176879/) who played Kirk’s attorney, Cogley [/QUOTE] Meh, I thought the point was not to use a Trek film or TV show, just whatever non-Trek credits a Trek actor might have. Besides, once you involve TV shows, it becomes too easy. Consider how many guest stars there were on _T.J. Hooker_, for example. Also, Shatner was in episodes of _Columbo_ and _Twilight Zone_ meaning you can easily link him through Peter Falk or Rod Serling to hundreds of others. I prefer using movies. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770/20 "2007-02-12T20:04:54Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Consider how many guest stars there were on _T.J. Hooker_, for example. [/QUOTE] You mean there were people on _T.J. Hooker_ besides young Heather Locklear? I hadn’t noticed. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-star-trek/391770.md?page=2)