Ashley Judd (Frida, Double Jeopardy, and in keeping with the thread premise, Twin Peaks & Missing) appeared in two ST:TNG episodes back in 1991.
And the mother was played by Kelly Bishop, who went on to play Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls
Yes, I knew that, thank you. What I was wondering was, why is the term applied to vessels like gunboats and submarines?
Mechanical rice picker accident, I imagine.
Ah, of course! The old mechanical rice picker ploy.
Richard Anderson had a long career as a character actor, including a role in Forbidden Planet before becoming Oscar Goldman, head of the OSI on The Six Million Dollar Man.
Tom Baker played the evil sorcerer in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Leslie Nielsen played a violent “john” in the Streisand move Nuts.
He wasn’t the first though! In the old series Lalla Ward played a princess during an episode, then Romana deliberately regenerated into her likeness and discussed it with the Doctor. Also Colin Baker played a Galifreyan captain of the guard for the Fifth Doctor, then went on to become the Sixth Doctor, though I think the likeness was unremarked on in the series.
Second time this month!
It is over used, but suckers still fall for it.
Georgia “Georgette Baxter, nee Franklin” Engel as “Jean,” Lyndsey McElroy’s mother, on Two and a Half Men.
As an aside, Annie Potts and Carol Kane played the mothers of Judith and Melissa, Alan Harper’s wife and receptionist, respectively.