# Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, star-trek-paramount
**Created:** [August 29, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982 "2017-08-29T00:49:02Z")
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1 "2017-08-29T00:49:02Z")
Inspired by the thread Spotting a Familiar Actor in a Surprising Place, and my insipid posting of finding Star Trek actors.
Mr. Atoz in _77 Sunset Strip, Dial S for Spenser._
Dr. McCoy in \*Have Gun-Will Travel, The Treasure.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/2 "2017-08-29T00:59:30Z")
James Doohan, George Takei, and Ethan Phillips on _Homeboys in Outer Space_.
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### Author:  [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/3 "2017-08-29T01:08:57Z")
Shatner in at least 2 twilight zone episodes. One was the famous episode where he saw a gremlin on the wing.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/4 "2017-08-29T01:09:29Z")
DeForest Kelly in _The Lone Ranger_ (twice) and _Bonanza_ (twice). He even played a doctor in one episode of each series.
Leonard Nimoy as an Indian in _Daniel Boone_ and he also appeared in _Bonanza_.
James Doohan in _Hazel_. He was easy to spot. He played a Scotsman. 😃
Walter Koenig had a cameo as a police sergeant in an episode of _Columbo_ in which William Shatner played the murderer.
Not a TV show, but Nichelle Nichols played a madame in the movie _Truck Turner_, starring Isaac Hayes.
Before he was famous, William Shatner was in _The Twilight Zone_ twice and in _The Naked City_.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/5 "2017-08-29T01:11:41Z")
Nimoy in _Zombies Of The Stratosphere._
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### Author:  [@Trafalgar\_Laura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trafalgar_Laura)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/6 "2017-08-29T01:15:22Z")
Rene Auberjonois, or Odo from DS9, played Frasier’s psychology mentor from school in a few episodes of Frasier.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/7 "2017-08-29T01:25:53Z")
Scotty was in a Bewitched episode. He played a father of a boy warlock who was staying with Sam and Darrin for the weekend.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/8 "2017-08-29T01:49:36Z")
Arlene Martel, who played Spock’s betrothed in “Amok Time”, also appeared in _Mission: Impossible_ after Leonard Nimoy joined the cast. Apparently, she also appeared with Leonard Nimoy in an episode of _The Rebel_, but I’ve never seen the latter.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/9 "2017-08-29T01:55:55Z")
Jonathan Frakes on _North and South_ (soon to be edited and re-released as _North_.)
Brent Spiner on N_ight Court_.
Rene Auberjonois on _Wonder Woman_ (and with a costarring role on _Benson_.)
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/10 "2017-08-29T01:56:20Z")
Nimoy was on an episode of Perry Mason…Shatner was in the movie Judgement at Nuremburg
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/11 "2017-08-29T01:57:18Z")
> [@Trafalgar\_Laura](#):
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> Rene Auberjonois, or Odo from DS9, played Frasier’s psychology mentor from school in a few episodes of Frasier.
He was also the priest in the original movie version of M_A_S\*H
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/12 "2017-08-29T02:02:28Z")
Leonard Nimoy in _The Brain Eaters._
George Takei in _The Green Berets._
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/13 "2017-08-29T02:04:05Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> James Doohan in _Hazel_. He was easy to spot. He played a Scotsman. 😃
Yeah, I saw that one when I was a young Trekkie in the 1970s.
Recently I saw a Columbo episode in which the guy who played “Charlie X” was a suspect, and the other day I saw an episode of E.R. which featured the woman who played “Leeta” on DS 9 (she was a “dabo girl”).
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/14 "2017-08-29T02:04:06Z")
Oh, and I haven’t seen National Lampoon’s Senior Trip, but I find [this](https://media.baselineresearch.com/images/289877/289877_full.jpg) photo of Ezri Dax and Twilight Sparkle amusing. (Rule 34?)
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/15 "2017-08-29T02:04:46Z")
Kate Mulgrew (Capt.Janeway)played in the soap opera ‘Ryan’s Hope’
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/16 "2017-08-29T02:05:13Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> Before he was famous, William Shatner was in _The Twilight Zone_
Takei also appeared in an episode of Twilight Zone.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/17 "2017-08-29T02:05:38Z")
Shatner screamed like a little girl in, “The Devil’s Rain.” John Travolta was somewhere in there, too.
Nana Visitor was a platinum blond in a _Matlock_ episode.
Of course, Rene Auberjonois was Father Mulcahy in, “MASH.”
Frakes was in the pilot episode of, “The Librarian.” (Directed it, too.)
Cheryl (Gates) McFadden was in, “The Muppets Take Manhattan.”
Charlie (Robert Walker, Jr) X was in a movie called. “Killers Three,” with Dick Clark, who also wrote it.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/18 "2017-08-29T02:06:17Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#):
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> which featured the woman who played “Leeta” on DS 9 (she was a “dabo girl”).
Sadly, I know that her name is Chase Masterson without having to look it up.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/19 "2017-08-29T02:10:01Z")
Colm Meaney was Miles O’Brien on _STNG_ and a major character on _Hell on Wheels_ (Thomas Durrant).
John De Lance was Q on _STNG_, and appeared as the Donald Margolis, who was Jesse’s Girlfriend’s dad on _Breaking Bad_. I’m pretty sure he was on an episode of _Quantum Leap_, too, playing the ass-hole millionaire who get’s the Scrooge treatment to turn his life around.
Matt McCoy was Troi’s love interest, Devinoni Ral, and then showed up in the _Serenity Now_ episode of _Seinfeld_ as Lloyd Braun.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/20 "2017-08-29T02:12:35Z")
Jimmy Doohan thought he killed Richard Harris in, “Man in the Wilderness.”
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