# 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: [August 29, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/21 "2017-08-29T02:13:46Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Sadly, I know that her name is Chase Masterson without having to look it up.
Not sad at all…
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/22 "2017-08-29T02:14:24Z")
Speaking of John De Lance, anyone remember him as Eugine Bradford?
(Also the skeevy gynecologist in _The Hand That Rocks the Cradle_.)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/23 "2017-08-29T02:17:25Z")
Laurel (Yeoman Colt) Goodwin was in, “Girls, Girls, Girls,” an Elvis movie.
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### Author:  [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/24 "2017-08-29T02:20:56Z")
Nimoy’s in an episode of _Get Smart_.
Shatner is in an episode of _The Outer Limits_.
“Crewman Green” from the Salt Monster episode is a friend of
“Benjy Carver” a.k.a. “Blue Boy” in what is arguably the best episode of _Dragnet 1967_,
“The LSD Story.”
So many others…
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/25 "2017-08-29T02:31:48Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Charlie (Robert Walker, Jr) X was in a movie called. “Killers Three,” with Dick Clark, who also wrote it.
He also played the lead in _Ensign Pulver_ the bad sequel to _Mister Roberts_.
In an episode of _Roswell_ Jonathan Frakes played an obnoxious actor named Jonathan Frakes who was a guest at an alien convention.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/26 "2017-08-29T02:37:40Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Colm Meaney was Miles O’Brien on _STNG_ and a major character on _Hell on Wheels_ (Thomas Durrant).
Also a pilot in \*Die Hard \*2, who was tricked into crashing his plane.
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### Author:  [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/27 "2017-08-29T02:38:56Z")
When I watched The Outer Limits episode “Controlled Experiment,” I couldn’t figure out who this [familiar looking woman](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwTYL8LJj_s/VUdb9jFRuJI/AAAAAAAAL8c/xe958Nqv4rA/s1600/Outer%2BLimits%2B-%2BGrace%2BLee%2BWhitney%2B3.jpg) was.
Grace Lee Whitney – Yeoman Janice Rand
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/28 "2017-08-29T02:52:18Z")
Alice (Borg Queen, “First Contact”) Krige was _very_ naked in the movie, “Ghost Story.”
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/29 "2017-08-29T02:55:52Z")
Not a TV show, but Shatner was \*\*\*excellent \*\*\*in the 1962 film [The Intruder](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055019/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_207).
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/30 "2017-08-29T03:16:03Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#):
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> 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.
I looked her up on IMDb a while ago and was surprised at how many things she’d been in that I’d never noticed was the same actress. She’s in the classic Outer Limits episode _Demon With a Glass Hand_.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/31 "2017-08-29T03:55:26Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Alice (Borg Queen, “First Contact”) Krige was _very_ naked in the movie, “Ghost Story.”
She was one of Becker’s ex-wives. I’m not going to count Terry Farrell since she went to _Becker_ directly from DS9 and was one of the leads in the series.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/32 "2017-08-29T05:00:45Z")
Frakes was in an episode of the New Twilight Zone, where a secretary gets transported to a world where they’re treated like royalty. He hits on het at a bar and when he finds out she’s a secretary he curses himself for blowing a chance with her.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/33 "2017-08-29T05:08:08Z")
So many to choose from! For starters…
Arlene Martel was in “What You Need,” in one of the first episodes of _ **Twilight Zone** _. She was also “Tiger” of the French Resistance on _ **Hogan’s Heroes** _.
Sabrina Scharf (“Miramanee”) was part of a Gestapo “interrogation team” :o on _ **Hogan’s Heroes** _.
Jimmy Doohan was the father of Morgan Brittany (then known as Suzanne Caputo) in “Valley of the Shadow” on _ **Twilight Zone** _. He was also an advisor to the US President in the pilot of _ **Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea** _.
Both Leonard Nimoy and Walter Koenig played GIs on _ **Combat!** _
Both Diana Muldaur and Joanne Linville (Miranda Jones (among other roles) and the Romulan Commander, respectively) were on the original _ **Hawaii Five-O** _, the former as McGarrett’s old girlfriend and the latter as a faith healer.
Joanne was also in “The Passersby,” one of the first episodes of _ **Twilight Zone** _. She was also the whiny alcoholic wife of Jackie Cooper, the murderer in an episode of _ **Columbo** _.
William Windom (“Commodore Decker”) was in “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” on _ **Twilight Zone** _. Also _ **The Farmer’s Daughter** _ and _ **My World—and Welcome to It** _.
Sherry Jackson (“Andrea the Android”) played opposite Frank Gorshin (“Commissioner Beale”) in a Riddler episode of _ **Batman** _. Sherry was also in “The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” on _ **Twilight Zone** _.
Majel Barrett (“Nurse Chapel”) was a waitress in an episode of the original _ **The Untouchables.** _ Stanley Adams (“Cyrano Jones”) was also in _ **The Untouchables** _, as a wanna-be gangster.
Grace Lee Whitney (“Yeoman Rand”) was a member of the all-girl band in _ **Some Like It Hot** _.
Lloyd Haynes (“Lt Alden” in the second pilot) moved on to play teacher Pete Dixon on _ **Room 222** _. (According to Wiki, he died of lung cancer in 1986 at the age of 52! ☹ )
Here’s a really obscure one for you: Bruce Watson (“Crewman Green” in “The Man Trap”) was a gunslinger in an episode of the CBS comedy western _ **Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats** _ (1966–67), the pilot I think. This series starred '40s babe Ann Sheridan shortly before she also died of lung cancer.
DeForest Kelley played a bad guy in the pilot episode of _ **The Cowboys** _, a spin-off of the John Wayne movie.
Just saw James Gregory (“Dr Adams”) in “Where is Everybody?” on Twilight Zone. Also from “Dagger of the Mind”: Morgan Woodward (“Dr van Gelder”) was one of JR’s nemesises on _ **Dallas** _; Marianna Hill (“Dr Noel”) was the town floozy in Clint Eastwood’s _ **High Plains Drifter** _.
Billy Curtis, one of the ambassadors in “Journey to Babel,” was the town dwarf in _ **High Plains Drifter** _.
Sharon Acker (“Odonna” in “Mark of Gideon”) was “Edwina” in an episode of _ **It Takes a Thief** _ (_Ed, do you think you can take your glasses off, let your hair down, and come on as sexy?_ :dubious: ) Teri Garr (“Roberta Lincoln” in “Assignment: Earth”) was also in _ **It Takes a Thief** _ as a cute little airline stewardess.
George Takei was a Red Chinese agent in an episode of _ **It Takes a Thief** _ set in Africa.
Lots of others. Ken Lynch, Frank Overton, Madlyn Rhue, Jill Ireland, Susan Howard, Michael Ansara, John Colicos, William Campbell. And so on, and so on.
Let’s not forget Bill Shatner in _ **Incubus** _, the pilot for _ **Alexander the Great** _, and the short-lived _ **Barbary Coast** _. He was also in _ **The Andersonville Trials** _, which was excellent!
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/34 "2017-08-29T05:14:41Z")
And Majel Barrett was in the failed pilot _ **Genesis II** _ as one of the heads of the post-apocalypse organization _Pax_.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/35 "2017-08-29T05:20:36Z")
Mariette Hartley (“Zarabeth” in “All Our Yesterdays”) was also in _ **Genesis II** _ as a mutant with two (count 'em, two!) navels. :o
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/36 "2017-08-29T05:24:03Z")
Malachi Throne (“Commodore Mendez” in “The Menagerie”) was in both \*\*\*Batman \*\*\* (as “False Face”) and _ **It Takes a Thief** _ (as “Noah Bain”).
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/37 "2017-08-29T05:47:48Z")
I remember seeing Liam Sullivan (“Parmen” in “Plato’s Stepchildren”) as a high-society type in an episode of _ **Family Affair** _.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/38 "2017-08-29T05:48:52Z")
Susan Howard (“Mara, Kang’s wife”) was Mrs Ray Krebs on _ **Dallas** _.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/39 "2017-08-29T05:59:42Z")
Barbara Bouchet (“Kolinda” in “By Any Other Name”) was in the original James Bond spoof _ **Casino Royale** _.
Angelique Pettyjohn (“Shahna” in “The Gamesters of Triskelion”) was “Master of Disguise” Charlie Watkins on _ **Get Smart** _.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/40 "2017-08-29T06:09:14Z")
One day with nothing to do, I plopped myself in front of the TV and watched some movie starring Leonard Nimoy as a Navy captain. He commanded a submarine and there was some question about his competence (he may have been drugged or otherwise incapacitated at some point), there were spies and codes and it seemed kind of odd to see Nimoy barking orders… very much unlike Spock.
Assault on the Wayne is very much a TV movie, but not too bad of one and it seemed to have similarities to Star Trek.
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