# 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:** 20
**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:** [January 21, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/381 "2018-01-21T21:20:49Z")
T’Pau, Celia Lovsky, wife of Peter Lore, played “Old Indian Woman” on the Wagon Train episode, “A Man Called Horse”. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/382 "2018-01-21T23:42:40Z")
James “Warped Dr Adams” Gregory played a self-made millionaire who never finished high school on _ **The Partridge Family** _. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/383 "2018-01-22T02:44:12Z")
I didn’t realize how much those poor actors needed money. I recognized T’Pau from her Czechoslovakian accent. All this time, I believed it to be Vulcan. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/384 "2018-01-22T07:07:51Z")
I spotted Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat) in an episode of _T. J. Hooker_. That makes at least five ST actors who have appeared on that show alone. William Shatner - TOS. Leonard Nimoy - TOS. Guest starred in one episode and directed another. James Darren - ST-DS9. Richard Herd - ST-VOY Marc Alaimo - ST-DS9. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/385 "2018-01-22T07:51:53Z")
Just remembered: I watched an episode of _Night Court_ with Nana Visitor as a mentally deranged woman who escapes the bailiffs’ custody and agrees to go to a hotel with Dan for a quickie. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/386 "2018-01-22T09:29:19Z")
William “Trelayne” Campbell was a soldier of fortune/mercenary on _ **Wild, Wild West** _. I think the episode was “Night of the Juggernaut,” the one with the steam-powered tank and multiple grenade launchers. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/387 "2018-01-22T16:02:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > William “Trelayne” Campbell was a soldier of fortune/mercenary on _ **Wild, Wild West** _. I think the episode was “Night of the Juggernaut,” the one with the steam-powered tank and multiple grenade launchers. Uh, excuse me, didn’t every single episode of\*\* TWWW\*\* have a steam-powered tank with grenade launchers (except the haunted plantation house)? 😃 ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/388 "2018-01-22T16:13:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Uh, excuse me, didn’t every single episode of\*\* TWWW\*\* have a steam-powered tank with grenade launchers (except the haunted plantation house)? > > 😃 That’s the way I remember it! ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/389 "2018-01-22T19:37:53Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > That’s the way I remember it! No … there was the one with the flying saucer, and the one with the giant cannon, and the one with the submarine… ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/390 "2018-01-22T19:46:58Z")
But was it a _steam_ submarine? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/391 "2018-01-22T20:12:27Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > But was it a _steam_ submarine? Probably. I think Alfred “Dr Crater” Ryder was the evil genius bent on world domination in that episode. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/392 "2018-01-23T01:35:16Z")
Leonard Nimoy plays “Cherokee Ned” on Wagon Train, “The Maggie Hamilton Story”. It is painful to watch. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/393 "2018-01-23T02:02:16Z")
Come to think of it, Cherokee Bill was the outlaw who, when asked at his hanging if he had any last words, responded, “I didn’t come here to make a speech, I came here to die.” Tough guy. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/394 "2018-01-23T02:14:44Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > That’s the way I remember it! The grenade launchers were actually hand-held infantry weapons. “Turns every infantryman into an artillery man” was the line, I believe. Cool! 🆒 ---
**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:** [January 23, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/395 "2018-01-23T15:40:31Z")
William Schallert played a cop on _The Twilight Zone_ a few years before he was an officious Federation bureaucrat in TOS “The Trouble With Tribbles”: [Mr. Bevis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bevis#/media/File:Orson_Bean_The_Twilight_Zone.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/396 "2018-01-23T16:04:11Z")
A quick search revealed that no one has mentioned Michael (Alexander–“Plato’s Stepchildren”) Dunn as Dr. Loveless on _The Wild Wild West_. :eek: ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/397 "2018-01-24T04:44:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > William Schallert played a cop on _The Twilight Zone_ a few years before he was an officious Federation bureaucrat in TOS “The Trouble With Tribbles”: [Mr. Bevis - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bevis#/media/File:Orson_Bean_The_Twilight_Zone.jpg) Schallert also played “Frank Harper” on _ **Wild, Wild West** _ (“The Night of the Winged Terror”). He was one of several substitutes for Artemus Gordon when Ross Martin was gone from the show after he had a heart attack. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/398 "2018-01-24T05:29:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I thought Richard Herd seemed familiar. I’ve been watching this cop show with some other Star Trek actor whose name escapes me at the moment :D. He played Captain Sheridan. It just dawned on me that he was also “Matt Wilhelm,” George’s supervisor at the NY Yankees on _ **Seinfeld** _. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/399 "2018-01-24T06:00:14Z")
Has no one mentioned that Nancy “Nona” Kovack was in **this episode** of _ **Mannix** _? :dubious: > **["Mannix" The Girl Who Came in with the Tide (TV Episode 1969) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0641661/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt)** > > The Girl Who Came in with the Tide: Directed by Gerald Mayer. With Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Nancy Kovack, Robert Reed. A young woman's body washes ashore as the episode opens, and Mannix later recognizes her as the former consort of a slippery... ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/400 "2018-01-24T13:29:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Schallert also played “Frank Harper” on _ **Wild, Wild West** _ (“The Night of the Winged Terror”). He was one of several substitutes for Artemus Gordon when Ross Martin was gone from the show after he had a heart attack. I though I watched all of the episodes, and I don’t recall that. I did find the sci-fi western concept odd at times, so perhaps I gave up on it. I always rooted for Dr. Loveless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=21)