# Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs **URL:** \ **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:** 17
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/321 "2017-11-16T21:48:32Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I actually paid money for that. Somethibng like a $2.50 DVD from China. > > I think…Shatner…acquired his…acting… _style_…trying to remember his lines in Esperanto. Close. It was actually when he filled in for Christopher Plummer one night in \*\*\*Hamlet \*\*\*(I think it was), since he was the understudy waiting in the wings. (I forget where this was, other than someplace in Canada.) Couldn’t remember the lines, so his speeches were full of long pauses. He got rave reviews the next day, and was lauded for bringing a “fresh new interpretation” of Shakespeare to the stage. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/322 "2017-11-16T21:51:40Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > If you look really, _really_ closely, you can see him dying a little inside as he does that ad. Yeah, but doesn’t that toup’ look great? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/323 "2017-11-16T22:19:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > She had a supporting but not negligible role as the mom of Elijah Wood’s girlfriend in _Deep Impact_. She’s also had a recurring role on **Ray Donovan** , including a couple of episodes this year. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/324 "2017-11-17T01:22:10Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Yeah, but doesn’t that toup’ look great? 🆒 Yeah, that is some serious 70’s hair. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/325 "2017-11-17T01:24:11Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Close. It was actually when he filled in for Christopher Plummer one night in \*\*\*Hamlet \*\*\*(I think it was), since he was the understudy waiting in the wings. (I forget where this was, other than someplace in Canada.) > > Couldn’t remember the lines, so his speeches were full of long pauses. He got rave reviews the next day, and was lauded for bringing a “fresh new interpretation” of Shakespeare to the stage. “To be…or not…to be. Whether tis…nobler…in the mind” “Slings…and arrows of outrageous…fortune…” Yeah, I can see that. Of course, we are working 8 to 5 and worry about the car payment, and he pays someone to… count his… money. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/326 "2017-11-17T02:09:25Z")
of course there’s the “shats” magnum opus “The stranger” he did with roger corman ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/327 "2017-11-17T06:28:55Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Yeah, that is some serious 70’s hair. All he needed to really fit in was a pornstache. I’d pay to see that! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/328 "2017-11-19T02:40:03Z")
I spotted not too long ago [Meg Wyllie](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Meg_Wyllie), one of the Talosians from The Cage (and The Menagerie), [in the 60s TV Batman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0519507/characters/nm0943816?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t14) playing an automaton of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/329 "2017-11-21T21:19:12Z")
Two ST alums appeared in the most recent episode of _The Orville_ (a pretty good show, I think, and enjoyable by any Trekker): [![](https://latetothegame2017.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/orville-10-2.jpg?w=447&h=278) ](https://latetothegame2017.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/orville-10-2.jpg?w=447&h=278) > **[The Doctor](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Doctor)** > > "The Doctor" (also known as just "Doctor" or "Doc") was USS Voyager's Emergency Medical Holographic program (or "EMH") and chief medical officer during the ship's seven-year journey through the Delta Quadrant. The EMH Mark I, of which The Doctor's... > **[Eris](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eris)** > > Eris was a Vorta agent in service of the Dominion. She was involved in an attempt to infiltrate the Federation in late 2370. She was the only Vorta known to apparently possess telekinetic abilities. She claimed she was from Kurill Prime. While... ---
**Author:** ![escaped](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@escaped](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/escaped)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/330 "2017-11-21T22:24:15Z")
I remember seeing Leonard Nimoy in a 1994 Bonanza t.v movie. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/331 "2017-11-21T22:45:34Z")
In _The Corbimite Manuever_ Ted Cassidy does the voice of the threatening looking mannequin. Of course he later went on to do Lurch on the Addams Family as well as several cameos as an Indian in several films, plus a lot of voice acting. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/332 "2017-11-21T22:57:44Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > In _The Corbimite Manuever_ Ted Cassidy does the voice of the threatening looking mannequin. Of course he later went on to do Lurch on the Addams Family as well as several cameos as an Indian in several films, plus a lot of voice acting. Also the voice of the Gorn in _Arena_ and Ruk in _What Are Little Girls Made Of?_. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/333 "2017-11-21T23:53:23Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > In _The Corbimite Manuever_ Ted Cassidy does the voice of the threatening looking mannequin. Of course he later went on to do Lurch on the Addams Family as well as several cameos as an Indian in several films, plus a lot of voice acting. According to one story I’ve read, Gene Roddenberry got Ted Cassidy to impersonate him (Roddenberry) when a persistent tailor insisted on meeting Roddenberry at his office to try to sell him a suit. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/334 "2017-11-22T03:55:19Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > According to one story I’ve read, Gene Roddenberry got Ted Cassidy to impersonate him (Roddenberry) when a persistent tailor insisted on meeting Roddenberry at his office to try to sell him a suit. Yes. And Cassidy was fully made up as Ruk at the time. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/335 "2017-11-30T03:39:59Z")
Yes! I remember that from Stephen Whitfield’s excellent behind-the-scenes book, _The Making of Star Trek_. Cassidy was seated at Roddenberry’s desk in full costume and makeup as Ruk ([https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/8c/d3/288cd39ef3943ca1099c1d7f5378c893.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/28/8c/d3/288cd39ef3943ca1099c1d7f5378c893.jpg)). The salesman, after just briefly being taken aback by Cassidy’s appearance, duly proceeded with his sales pitch. Roddenberry was so impressed he bought several suits from the guy. I just saw the PBS documentary _By Sidney Lumet_, about the director’s long career. Several future ST actors popped up in the various clips of his work: John Fiedler, _12 Angry Men_ [https://theredlist.com/media/database/films/cinema/1950/twelve-angry-men/003-twelve-angry-men-theredlist.jpg](https://theredlist.com/media/database/films/cinema/1950/twelve-angry-men/003-twelve-angry-men-theredlist.jpg) > **[John Fiedler](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_Fiedler)** > > John Donald Fiedler (3 February 1925 – 25 June 2005; age 80) was the shrill-voiced, bald-pated character actor who played Mr. Hengist in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Wolf in the Fold". He filmed his scenes between Tuesday... Ian Wolfe, _You Are There_ > **[Ian Wolfe | Ian Wolfe Picture #30304733 - 320 x 240 - FanPix.Net](https://fanpix.famousfix.com/pictures/ian-wolfe/p30304733)** > > 28 March 2023... Ian Wolfe | Ian Wolfe Photo ID: 30304733. Picture of Ian Wolfe - - Latest Ian Wolfe image. > **[Atoz](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Atoz)** > > Mr. Atoz was an inhabitant of the planet Sarpeidon whose sun was going supernova. He was the overseer of a library and the atavachron, a time portal device that he used to transport the inhabitants of the planet into the past in order to escape its... Frank Overton, _Fail-Safe_ [![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-siPuhA5w__8/UqYGYLeeIfI/AAAAAAAAPf8/SO4lulSXTUA/s1600/Frank+Overton+Fail-Safe.PNG) ](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-siPuhA5w__8/UqYGYLeeIfI/AAAAAAAAPf8/SO4lulSXTUA/s1600/Frank+Overton+Fail-Safe.PNG) > **[Elias Sandoval](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Elias_Sandoval)** > > Elias Sandoval was a male Human civilian in the 23rd century. He was a colony leader of the Omicron colony from 2264 to 2267. As a child, Sandoval suffered from lobar pneumonia, which scarred the tissue on his lungs. As well, he had an appendectomy... Fritz Weaver, also from _Fail-Safe_ [![](https://classictvhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/ii-weaver.png) ](https://classictvhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/ii-weaver.png) > **[Kovat](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kovat)** > > Kovat was a male Cardassian who served as a Public Conservator in the Cardassian system of jurisprudence. He was very adept at crafting guilty pleas. According to Cardassian law, an accused person was guilty – not guilty until proven innocent, simply... ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/336 "2017-11-30T09:03:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Susan Howard (“Mara, Kang’s wife”) was Mrs Ray Krebs on _ **Dallas** _. And she was also Maggie Petrocelli (wife of defense lawyer Tony Petrocelli) on _Petrocelli_ from 1974-76 on NBC. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/337 "2017-12-20T22:28:07Z")
William “Commodore Decker” Windom as good-ol’-boy “Uncle Irwin, Fried Chicken Magnate” on _ **The Partridge Family** _. :eek: Must have really needed to pay the rent that month! :smack: ---
**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:** [December 21, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/338 "2017-12-21T14:41:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > William “Commodore Decker” Windom as good-ol’-boy “Uncle Irwin, Fried Chicken Magnate” on _ **The Partridge Family** _. :eek: Must have really needed to pay the rent that month! :smack: “Chicken Magnates never bluff.” “No, I don’t guess they do.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/339 "2017-12-21T14:44:15Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Chicken Magnates never bluff.” > “No, I don’t guess they do.” “Naw, Ah don’ reckon they do.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/340 "2017-12-21T15:01:34Z")
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