# 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
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/241 "2017-09-21T01:18:00Z")
Just watched an old episode of Barney Miller (“Hash”) and I recognized one of the police officers as “Officer Kirk” from “Happy Days” - but when I looked him up to confirm, I saw he was also “Colonel Fellini” who captured Kirk in “Tomorrow is Yesterday.”
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/242 "2017-09-22T00:18:26Z")
[Riverboat](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052506/), the Darren McGavin 1959 TV series. Ken Lynch, the mining engineer from _Devil in the Dark_, plays a crook who has taken over Hampton, Mississippi.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/243 "2017-09-22T01:29:37Z")
The name of Darren McGavin’s riverboat was Enterprise.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/244 "2017-09-23T21:54:44Z")
Janos Prohaska played the horta in\* Devil In the Dark\*, the “Anthropoid Ape” in _The Cage_, the Mogato in _A Private Little War_ and the rock thing in _Savage Curtain._ I just watched him play a killer chimp in _Riverboat, Do No Evil._ He also played a hornless mugato in a _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_ episode.
This guy specialized in wearing ape suits.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/245 "2017-09-26T17:47:26Z")
> [@E-DUB](#):
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> …“True Grit” has already been mentioned due to…Jeff Corey…
Corey really got around in Sixties Westerns; he was in _True Grit, Little Big Man_ and _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid._
[http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsC/3631-20088.gif](http://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/ActorsC/3631-20088.gif)
[ ](http://onceuponatimeinawestern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jeff-Corey-as-Wild-Bill-Hickok-in-Little-Big-Man-1970.jpg)
[ ](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lEyW1OEgzqE/VyY_-QeJgpI/AAAAAAAAo0k/F7QNMzS2vekOsNwiOqHTP4fIqHO7PLs5wCKgB/s1600/ButchSundance_083Pyxurz.jpg)
He was also an early acting coach of Leonard Nimoy’s.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/246 "2017-09-29T16:33:34Z")
The 1995 sci-fi flick “Dgital Man” features Ken Olandt, who played Picards ersatz son. Also, Ed Lauter, who played the father of the boy killed when Wesley and co did that risky stunt in “The First Duty”. But draws the prize for a pre DS9 Chase Masterson, who briefly displays her, er, attributes. (It was the highlight of the film, in case you’re wondering.)
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/247 "2017-10-06T14:58:59Z")
Just spotted a very young Ricardo Montalban in the WWII action movie _Battleground_ (1949): [http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2088/2881/1600/Image17.19.jpg](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2088/2881/1600/Image17.19.jpg)
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/248 "2017-10-06T17:20:38Z")
Amazingly, I don’t think it’s been mentioned that Warren Stevens played both Rojan in “By Any Other Name” and Lt “Doc” Ostrow in _ **Forbidden Planet** _. He was that picture’s “Dr McCoy” to Leslie Nielsen’s “Captain Kirk” (JJ Adams).
Looking at the movie’s cast list, I see other Trek alumni were featured as well:
> **[Morgan Jones](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Morgan_Jones)**
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> Morgan Adair Jones (15 June 1928 – 13 January 2012; age 83) was the actor who played Colonel Jack Nesvig in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Assignment: Earth". Jones co-starred with Dick Miller in the latter's film debut,...
> **[William Boyett](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/William_Boyett)**
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> William Boyett (3 January 1927 – 29 December 2004; age 77) was an actor who played Lieutenant Dan Bell in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "The Big Goodbye" and a policeman in the sixth season episode "Time's Arrow, Part II"....
> **[George D. Wallace](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/George_D._Wallace)**
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> George Dewey Wallace (8 June 1917 – 22 July 2005; age 88) was an actor who appeared as Vice Admiral Simons in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "Man Of The People". Wallace was born in New York City, New York. He had a role in...
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/249 "2017-10-06T17:54:12Z")
One of my favorite films, and suggested by some to be “the first Star Trek episode”.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/250 "2017-10-06T19:39:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> One of my favorite films, and suggested by some to be “the first Star Trek episode”.
It was definitely one of Roddenberry’s inspirations for _ **Star Trek** _. If you didn’t already know, you might have trouble guessing which came first, _ **Forbidden Planet** _ or “The Cage.”
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/251 "2017-10-06T19:46:11Z")
I just saw Vash in a commercial for Edward Jones. I hadn’t seen her in anything recent - although older, she’s still completely [recognizable](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/78ob/edward-jones-your-terms).
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/252 "2017-10-06T20:01:31Z")
Some **Fun Facts** I had no inkling of until I started reading the MA entry for “By Any Other Name”:
Julie Cobb, who plays the yeoman reduced to a plaster block and then crushed by the Kelvans, was the only \*\*Redskirt \*\*killed on _ **TOS** _. She was the daughter of Lee J Cobb, and it was her first professional gig. It’s apparent from her filmography that she’s really gotten around since:
> **[Julie Cobb - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167784/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm)**
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> Julie Cobb. Actress: Star Trek. Julie Cobb was born into a theatrical family. Her mother, Helen Beverley, was a renowned Yiddish stage and film actress, and her father was famed award-winning actor Lee J. Cobb. Her grandparents on her mother's side...
Turns out she was also married to **this guy** , whose name might ring a bell:
> **[James Cromwell - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000342/?ref_=nmbio_sp_1)**
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> James Cromwell. Actor: L.A. Confidential. Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. He studied...
Whaddaya know, he and I attended the same college! 🆒
\*\*\*First Contact \*\*_and **Enterprise**! With the exception of Kelly’s, Nimoy’s, and Doohan’s guest appearances on **TNG** , has any other actor appeared in the same role in more than one iteration of **Star Trek**? (Diana Muldaur doesn’t count, since she played multiple roles.)_
\*I just remembered the Klingons on _ **DS9** _: Campbell, Ansara, Colicos, and Brill. Was there anyone else?
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/253 "2017-10-06T20:13:21Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> With the exception of Kelly’s, Nimoy’s, and Doohan’s guest appearances on _ **TNG** _, has any other actor appeared in the same role in more than one iteration of _ **Star Trek** _? (Diana Muldaur doesn’t count, since she played multiple roles.)\*
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> \*I just remembered the Klingons on _ **DS9** _: Campbell, Ansara, Colicos, and Brill. Was there anyone else?
Of course, there’s the crossover between _ **TOS** _ and _ **TNG** _ in _ **Generations** _: Shatner, Doohan, and Koenig.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/254 "2017-10-06T20:36:31Z")
And in _ **TAS** _: Shatner, Nimoy, Doohan, Takei, Nichols, and Barrett, plus Lenard, Adams, and Carmel. Anyone else?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/255 "2017-10-06T21:08:34Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> It was definitely one of Roddenberry’s inspirations for _ **Star Trek** _. If you didn’t already know, you might have trouble guessing which came first, _ **Forbidden Planet** _ or “The Cage.”
The Captain, First Officer and Doctor. A typical Star Trek plot-the ship is set to evacuate the survivors of an expedition, and they don’t want to leave. ^:dubious:^
And let us not forget, “What’s a bathing suit?”
or
“And then I’ll put more guards in the guards!”
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2017, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/256 "2017-10-07T05:12:51Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> …in _ **Forbidden Planet** _. …other Trek alumni were featured as well:
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> …[William Boyett | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/William_Boyett)…
I forgot until I saw his picture that he was also in one of my favorite sf B-movies, _The Hidden,_ about a body-hopping alien criminal on the run in L.A.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/257 "2017-10-08T22:22:44Z")
> [@Morbo](#):
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> I just saw Vash in a commercial for Edward Jones. I hadn’t seen her in anything recent - although older, she’s still completely [recognizable](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/78ob/edward-jones-your-terms).
I remember when she was on Trek I recognized her from some commercial, maybe even more than one.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/258 "2017-10-08T22:55:32Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> With the exception of Kelly’s, Nimoy’s, and Doohan’s guest appearances on _ **TNG** _, has any other actor appeared in the same role in more than one iteration of _ **Star Trek** _?
Mark Lenard also showed up on TNG, reprising as Sarek.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/259 "2017-10-08T23:28:06Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> Mark Lenard also showed up on TNG, reprising as Sarek.
, And Meany and Dorn were in _ **DS9** _. Some of the Ferengi from \*\*\*TNG \*\*\*too?
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/260 "2017-10-08T23:40:14Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> , And Meany and Dorn were in _ **DS9** _. Some of the Ferengi from \*\*\*TNG \*\*\*too?
John de Lancie brought his Q act from TNG to DS9 to VOYAGER.
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