# 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:** 23
**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:** [April 13, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/441 "2018-04-13T00:34:36Z")
Dame Frances Margaret Anderson, AC, DBE, starred in the Wagon Train episode, _The Felizia Kingdom Story_, played Vulcan High Priestess T’Lar in _The Search for Spock_. It is said that someone had to form her hand into the Vulcan “Live long, and prosper” sign. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/442 "2018-04-22T22:52:22Z")
Leonard Nimoy played a hired killer in the Shennandoah episode, _Run Killer, Run._ …And the Doctor says, “I’m a doctor, not a miracle worker”. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 22, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/443 "2018-04-22T23:04:41Z")
…And Sally Kellerman of\* Where No Man Has Gone Before\* played the love interest. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/444 "2018-04-22T23:21:47Z")
Let’s see, I don’t think I’ve posted in this thread yet. In the Starcraft II campaigns, Michael Dorn played a super-powerful deus-ex-machina Ancient One alien, and John Delancy (of course) played a smarmy villain helping the heroes just because it was in his best interest. The games also included Number Six, from _Battlestar Galactica_, and Ivanova, from _Babylon 5_. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/445 "2018-04-23T01:09:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > John Delancy (of course) played a smarmy villain helping the heroes just because it was in his best interest. Does he ever play anything else? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Athabasca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Athabasca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athabasca)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/446 "2018-04-23T01:16:57Z")
Hope this wasn’t posted yet, but Majel Barrett played a society journalist on General Hospital in 1983, covering Celia Quartermaine’s wedding to Grant Putnam. ---
**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:** [April 23, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/447 "2018-04-23T01:40:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Let’s see, I don’t think I’ve posted in this thread yet. In the Starcraft II campaigns, Michael Dorn played a super-powerful deus-ex-machina Ancient One alien, and John Delancy (of course) played a smarmy villain helping the heroes just because it was in his best interest. > > The games also included Number Six, from _Battlestar Galactica_, and Ivanova, from _Babylon 5_. I am surprised that Dorn and Delancy needed money that badly. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/448 "2018-04-27T00:06:45Z")
John “Mr Hengist” Fiedler and Peter “Claymare” Brocco in _ **Bewitched** _’s “Marriage Witches’ Style” (S05 E21). **NB:** Lloyd Bochner, who played warlock Franklyn Blodgett in this episode, was considered as a replacement for Leonard Nimoy when he was holding out for more money after the first season of\*\*\* Star Trek\*\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/449 "2018-04-27T00:44:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I am surprised that Dorn and Delancy needed money that badly. You say that like video game voice acting is a low rent gig. Twenty years ago, that’d be mostly true, but in the modern game market? Star Craft II sold 1.8 million units within 48 hours of launch - at ~$60 a copy, that makes it more profitable in its first two days than any Star Trek movie starring the original or TNG casts. (The reboots, naturally, made buckets more money than any of the “good” Star Trek movies.) Michael Dorn, in particular, is an accomplished voice actor who’s worked extensively in video games, with 27 different game credits listed at [MobyGames.com](http://MobyGames.com). John de Lancie has sixteen. And they’ve got good company! Patrick Stewart’s got twenty-five video game credits. Wil Wheaton has twenty-four. Brent Spiner has six. Jonathan Frakes has five. Marina Sirtis has five. LeVar Burton has three. Denise Crosby has two. Gates McFadden has two, and is the only TNG actor on this list whose credits are limited to Star Trek titles. Also, to round things out, Shatner has twelve, Nimoy seven, and Kelley five. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/450 "2018-05-03T20:50:18Z")
I just saw Majel Barrett in an ep of “77 Sunset Strip.” She played a housekeeper/cook named ‘Ilse,’ who spoke with a not particularly good German accent. And Mrs. Howell was her employer! (But all of Schafer’s roles were pretty much Mrs. Howell.) ---
**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:** [May 3, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/451 "2018-05-03T23:49:37Z")
Darn, I thought I had seen all of them. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/452 "2018-05-27T01:30:10Z")
Korob, of Catspaw, in the Have Gun Will Travel episode, “Return of the Lady”. A mean SOB, as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/453 "2018-05-28T19:58:47Z")
I just rewatched Dagger of the Mind the other week, then at the end of the week High Plains Drifter, spotting [Marianna Hill](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Marianna_Hill), who Memory Alpha assures me had all sorts of run ins with other Trek alumni. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/454 "2018-06-01T19:24:30Z")
Boris Lee Krutonog, “Oleg’s dad,” as noted in the thread for _ **The Americans** _: > **[Boris Lee Krutonog - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0472928/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotes)** > > Boris Lee Krutonog was born in Chisinau, USSR. He is a producer and actor, known for The Americans (2013), The Italian Job (2003) and The Hunt for ... ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/455 "2018-06-03T00:50:42Z")
Ken Lynch, the mining engineer from _Devil in the Dark_, in the Have Gun, Will Travel episode, _The Long Hunt._ The previous episode of HGWT, _The Monster of Moon Ridge_, was written by Gene Roddenberry. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/456 "2018-06-03T01:18:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Ken Lynch, the mining engineer from _Devil in the Dark_, in the Have Gun, Will Travel episode, _The Long Hunt._ > The previous episode of HGWT, _The Monster of Moon Ridge_, was written by Gene Roddenberry. No, it was Anthony Caruso who played Jose, Bella Oxmyx from _A Piece of the Action._ ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/457 "2018-06-03T21:48:58Z")
A slight cheat, but Holy Mackerel!: I was watching “TOS: Court Martial;” haven’t seen Joan Marshall (Areel Shaw) in just about anything else, so I IMDBed her. Lots of stuff prior to ST:TOS. Then there was a listing for “The Munsters,” 😕 from 2004 😕😕. Ms Shaw passed on in 1992 😕😕😕. Dig it: JM played _Phoebe_ Munster in the original pilot (Phoebe became Lily later on), but was let go because she was too similar to Morticia Addams from that other show. A SECOND pilot was filmed that included Yvonne DeCarlo as (now) Lily. And the original original pilot was released (?) in 2004.\* I haven’t seen it yet (drool, drool) so there’s your cheat. I beg forgiveness. \*Confused? You won’t be after this episode of, _Soap!_ ---
**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:** [June 14, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/458 "2018-06-14T01:20:48Z")
Anthony Caruso, Bella Oxmyx from _A Piece of the Action_ playing a US Army colonel in the Whirlybirds episode of 1959, _Egg Code_. BTW, he steals the girl from one of the Whirlybird guys, PT. :dubious: ---
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Just caught an episode of _Batman_ with two Trek actors; Elisha Cook, Jr., who had been in _Court Martial_, and Leslie Parrish, who would go on to be in _Who Mourns for Adonais?_ And all of those shows were from 1967. And it was the last episode of _Batman_ without Yvonne Craig, who would go on to be in _Whom Gods Destroy_. ---
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I was watching an _Alias Smith and Jones_ rerun today when I spotted Susan Oliver, Vina from _The Cage_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=24)