# 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")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 11
### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/201 "2017-09-12T01:54:58Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> Penny Johnson Jerald, who played Kasidy Yates on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,_ is now playing Dr. Claire Finn in _The Orville,_ a new Seth McFarlane sci-fi comedy. It debuted last night, and I enjoyed it.
She was pretty in DS9.
She looks like a mean grade school principal in Orville.
:dubious:
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/202 "2017-09-13T15:07:11Z")
Michael Ensign, who played the devious Minister Krola in ST:TNG “First Contact” (and three other ST roles), played the sniffy hotel manager in _Ghostbusters_ and doomed billionaire Benjamin Guggenheim in _Titanic_.
> **[Michael Ensign](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Ensign)**
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> Michael Ensign (born 13 February 1944; age 79) is an actor who appeared as Krola in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "First Contact", Lojal in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "The Forsaken", the Takarian...
[ ](https://phoenixfoundationpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ghostbusterscreencaps85.jpg)
[ ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JwC7HTVonJI/TlqJjljEvuI/AAAAAAAABb8/UXAKiiTM-no/s1600/Titanic_2099Pyxurz.jpg)
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/203 "2017-09-15T01:09:39Z")
Mark Lenard (“Sarek”) and Robert Brown (“Lazarus”) were in _ **Here Come the Brides** _.
[ ](https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1331929377_10.jpg)
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/204 "2017-09-15T01:27:49Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Mark Lenard (“Sarek”) and Robert Brown (“Lazarus”) were in _ **Here Come the Brides** _.
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> [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1331929377\_10.jpg](http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1331929377_10.jpg)
Nooooooooooooo…
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/205 "2017-09-15T01:38:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Nooooooooooooo…
Afraid so…
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRNpa_vTjRM)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/206 "2017-09-15T03:29:40Z")
Search function wouldn’t function, so I don’t know if anyone mentioned Mark Lenard in “Annie Hall.” Naval officer on TV program.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/207 "2017-09-15T04:27:27Z")
Peter Mark Richman, “Ralph Offenhouse” in _ **TNG** _’s “The Neutral Zone,” was Reverend Snow, Chrissie’s father, on _ **Three’s Company** _.
He was also on the short list of potential replacements for Leonard Nimoy when Leonard was holding out for more money between seasons 1 and 2 of _ **TOS** _.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/208 "2017-09-15T04:33:39Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Search function wouldn’t function, so I don’t know if anyone mentioned Mark Lenard in “Annie Hall.” Naval officer on TV program.
Mark Lenard and Leonard Nimoy in _ **Mission: Impossible** _’s “The Rebel”:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cLM0ZE8VU)
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/209 "2017-09-15T23:55:22Z")
Carolyne Barry, aka Carole Shelyne, the Metron in “Arena,” was in this episode of \*\*\*Love, American Style \*\*\* as “Joan.” Whether she was the secretary or the waitress with the tray, I’ve never been able to determine. She could be either.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4h7o_XvxmWU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLOJykyIiK-dIdHcep8lZdNNIzpWlZZ70C
Barry also played an engineer in _ **TNG** _’s “Home Soil.”
The waitress with the long blonde hair, BTW, is Connie Kreski, _ **Playboy** _’s PMoY for 1969.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/210 "2017-09-17T22:23:44Z")
Didn’t read whole thread so this might’ve already been mentioned…In one of those Real Housewives shows (of Newark? Juarez?) I’m pretty sure one of them was played by a Mugato.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/211 "2017-09-17T22:50:11Z")
^ Oh, fer the… [salt vampire](https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/trek2046.png?w=1436&h=1075), man.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/212 "2017-09-17T23:09:03Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> ^ Oh, fer the… [salt vampire](https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/trek2046.png?w=1436&h=1075), man.
Fair enough - I stand corrected.
Ignorance realigned.
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### Author:  [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/213 "2017-09-17T23:12:28Z")
The Mugato, along with the Horta, the rock guy in the Lincoln episode and a couple creatures in “The Cage” were all brought to life by Janos Prohaska, one of the greatest suit actors of all time. Mr. Prohaska appeared in a bear or gorilla suit in numerous TV shows, but he branched out in _The Outer Limits_ episode “The Probe” by enacting the role of an alien microbe.
The aforementioned Carole Shelyne was best known for dancing on the mid-'60s TV show _Shindig_ as “The Girl with the Horn Rim Glasses” and even recorded a hit song:
She also appears in \*Out of Sight\* (1967) along with Maggie Thrett (one of Mudd's women).
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/214 "2017-09-17T23:21:08Z")
If anybody remembers the old Andy Williams show, Prohaska played a talking bear who would keep ringing Andy’s doorbell and beg for cookies, to the point where Andy would explode in a fit of temper.
“NO! I’m not going to give you a cookie! Not now! Not ever! NEVER!!!”
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/215 "2017-09-18T00:13:57Z")
^ Whoa! Did you ever jog a memory! Thnx!
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/216 "2017-09-18T00:44:40Z")
[For you, \*\* burpo\*\*.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W9t3p1Pk5s&app=desktop)
😃
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/217 "2017-09-18T01:00:40Z")
^ 🆒 A man amongst men, you are.
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### Author:  [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/218 "2017-09-18T01:01:17Z")
Sally Kellerman was in a 1963 episode of “My Three Sons” titled “Steve and the Viking” Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into escorting the daughter of a Danish couple who have an account with Steve’s company. Steve’s qualification is that he is 6’2"-6’3" and the daughter (Kellerman) is 6’2". She proves to very athltic (no, not in bed) with hiking, tennis and saunas so much that Steve, who is about 45 (his sons are 20, 17 and 10) is physically worn out. He turns down an invitation to a costume ball for her, which turns out to be 17. So he suggests that his 17 year old Don escort her. At the time Kellerman was 26, which shows you that “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Gilmore Girls” didn’t invent the practice of women in their late 20s playing high school girls.
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George Takei was in a 1963 episode of "The Gallant Men", a one season show about GIs in Italy in World War II (it didn't help that "Combat!" debuted the same year on the same network). The episode "One Puka Puka" deals with the regular army hard bitten sergeant (Richard X Slattery) ending up in the largely Nisei 100th infantry battalion (puka is Hawaiian for hole) and with prewar service in Hawaii, Slattery thinks Hawaiian natives are a bit crazy. Takei is one of the soldiers under the command of a Nisei lieutenant named O'Hara who is unorthodox, always talking about comic books and kind of enjoys Slattery's discomfort. But Lt O'Hara's tactics work (they capture a German tank) and when Slattery's unit catches up, his captain finds Slattery happily dancing to Hawaiian music on a tabletop.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/219 "2017-09-18T01:16:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> ^ Oh, fer the…
Oliver!
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/220 "2017-09-18T01:20:39Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Oliver!
Mr. Douglas, I have the very thing you need right here on my truck, and it’s a steal for only $149.95. 😃
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