# 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:** 21
**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 25, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/401 "2018-01-25T22:12:46Z")
Also saw Schallert in an episode of _ **The Partridge Family** _ recently. He played an old folk singer whom Shirley wanted to made a comeback. I think it’s already been mentioned that Leslie “Lt Carolyn Palomas” Parrish was a beauty queen in a Penguin episode of \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*(first season). She was also in a second-season Mr Freeze episode opposite Eli Wallach as that week’s guest villain. ---
**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 26, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/402 "2018-01-26T02:53:58Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I think it’s already been mentioned that Leslie “Lt Carolyn Palomas” Parrish was a beauty queen in a Penguin episode of \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*(first season). She was also in a second-season Mr Freeze episode opposite Eli Wallach as that week’s guest villain. You wouldn’t think that Wallach needed money that badly. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/403 "2018-01-28T04:19:54Z")
One of my favorite radio shows is _Says You!_ It’s word and trivia games, and mostly an excuse for the wits on the panel to crack wise. One of their common rounds is “what’s the difference”, where the panelists have to figure out the difference between two similar words. Tonight it had a bit of a twist. The words all started with Q, and were recorded by someone other than the show’s usual host. At the end they revealed the secret; the recorded voice was **John de Lancie**. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You wouldn’t think that Wallach needed money that badly. Hey, _Batman_ was considered a pretty cool gig at the time. And Wallach was so awesome they were lucky to have him. ---
**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 30, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/404 "2018-01-30T22:06:55Z")
Theo “Korob” Marcuse as “Archduke Otto of Harmonika” in the pilot episode of _ **The Monkees** _. ---
**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 31, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/405 "2018-01-31T20:11:56Z")
Ed “Col. Fellini” Peck as real estate agent “Charlie Merkle” in a Season 4 episode of _ **I Dream of Jeannie** _. ---
**Author:** ![mattm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@mattm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/406 "2018-02-01T07:09:24Z")
[QUOTE= 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.[/QUOTE] I thought I dreamed this til you noted it and I IMDB’d it. Used to fall asleep with the Late Late Late Show on. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/407 "2018-02-01T15:08:40Z")
John “Mr Hengist” Fiedler as therapy patient “Mr Peterson” on _ **The Bob Newhart Show** _. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/408 "2018-02-01T15:52:55Z")
You helped us all in every way You got inside our head And that is why we’d like to say Peterson’s a twerp. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2018, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/409 "2018-02-05T22:33:37Z")
Arlene “T’Pring” Martel and Billy “Dwarf Ambassador” Curtis as Communist agents on _ **The Monkees** _. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/410 "2018-03-03T01:18:02Z")
John “Dr Philip ‘Bones’ Boyce” Hoyt as a mad scientist on _ **The Monkees** _. Laurence “Sybok” Luckinbill as Mary’s boyfriend on\*\*\* Mary Tyler Moore\*\*\*. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/411 "2018-03-04T01:00:04Z")
As noted elsewhere, Bill Quinn, McCoy’s father in _ **Star Trek V** _, was also Mary’s father “Walter” on _ **MTM** _. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/412 "2018-03-04T01:06:50Z")
Also, David Ogden Stiers as the WJM station manager on _ **MTM** _. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/413 "2018-03-06T01:58:44Z")
DeForest Kelley and Warren Stephens (the belt thingies that turned people into Styrofoam blocks) in an episode of _A Man Called Shenandoah_, 1965. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/414 "2018-03-06T02:50:24Z")
Binge-watching _Twilight Zone_ episode, “A Stop at Willoughby,” and the 1960 conductor is Jason (_Archie Bunker’s Place_) Wingreen, who played Dr. Linke in the beginning of, “The Empath.” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/415 "2018-03-06T13:14:32Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > As noted elsewhere, Bill Quinn, McCoy’s father in _ **Star Trek V** _, was also Mary’s father “Walter” on _ **MTM** _. Bill Quinn makes a lot of appearances on _Ironside_, primarily in one season as the city coroner. I’ve been identifying him as Mary Richards’s dad. I didn’t realize he was Dr. McCoy’s dad too. Who knew they were siblings? ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/416 "2018-03-06T15:03:08Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Also, David Ogden Stiers as the WJM station manager on _ **MTM** _. Best known for playing Maj. Winchester on _M_A_S_H\*, of course, and he just died, alas. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/417 "2018-03-06T19:26:14Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > Bill Quinn makes a lot of appearances on _Ironside_, primarily in one season as the city coroner. I’ve been identifying him as Mary Richards’s dad. I didn’t realize he was Dr. McCoy’s dad too. Who knew they were siblings? Bill was OLD when he appeared in _ **ST V** _. If I’m not mistaken, he died for real soon after the movie came out. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/418 "2018-03-06T22:12:17Z")
Gene Dynarski (miner “Ben Childress” in “Mudd’s Women”) as Red Chinese agent “Toto” in “Monkee Chow Mein.” Mike “BJ Hunnicutt” Farrell is in this episode too as a CIS (“Central Intelligence Service”) agent. Nowadays, of course, this episode would be considered incredibly racist, but what the hey! 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 7, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/419 "2018-03-07T02:32:03Z")
Kahn in the _Wagon Train_ episode, \*The Jean Lebec Story. \* ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/420 "2018-03-09T11:12:46Z")
I don’t have the energy to reread the entire thread (stupid stomach virus!), so I don’t know if this has already been mentioned. We’ve been rewatching _Quantum Leap_ from the beginning, and besides Scott Bakula, there are many actors who were also on various _Star Trek_ incarnations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=22)