# 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:** 24
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/461 "2018-06-18T13:23:43Z")
Ran across this one on another board. He eventually got over being shocked by cyborgs. ---
**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 18, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/462 "2018-06-18T13:48:24Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Ran across this one on another board. > > He eventually got over being shocked by cyborgs. He’s what, 20 years old? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/463 "2018-06-18T14:55:03Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I was watching an _Alias Smith and Jones_ rerun today when I spotted Susan Oliver, Vina from _The Cage_. [She was in a lot of TV shows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Oliver), both before and after Trek. She was also an accomplished aviator, only the fourth woman to fly the Atlantic solo in a single-engine airplane, and a winner of the Powder Puff Derby. Yvonne Craig, another green-skinned Orion slave girl, from “Whom Gods Destroy”, was better known as Batgirl. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/464 "2018-06-18T15:22:31Z")
Ms. Oliver’s appearance in “The Cage” could be considered a counterpoint to her TZ appearance where she helped put someone _in_ a cage. I also remember her from a two-part “Fugitive” episode, as well as a couple of guest shots on “The Invaders”. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/465 "2018-06-21T19:21:42Z")
I saw Grace Lee Whitney in another ep of “77 Sunset Strip.” She played a stripper. Think she was only in the opening scene. I didn’t recognize her, but saw her name in the credits, so I restarted it. ---
**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 21, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/466 "2018-06-21T19:43:36Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > I saw Grace Lee Whitney in another ep of “77 Sunset Strip.” She played a stripper. Think she was only in the opening scene. I didn’t recognize her, but saw her name in the credits, so I restarted it. Do you recall which caper it was? 🙂 I’ve seen many of them, but I don’t recall a stripper or Ms. Whitney. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/467 "2018-06-21T20:12:02Z")
^\[1\](["77 Sunset Strip" The Left Field Caper (TV Episode 1963) - Reference View - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0503505/reference)). The scene occurred in the dressing room, not on stage, so she didn’t actually strip–but it was very obvious what her profession was. As you can see in the credits, her stage name was ‘Flame,’ so she might have had reddish hair(piece) for this ep. * * * 1. The Left Field Caper ---
**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 22, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/468 "2018-06-22T12:40:27Z")
Thanks! ---
**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:** [June 24, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/469 "2018-06-24T21:10:58Z")
I’m watching another _Alias Smith and Jones_ rerun and Mark Lenard is in this one. He’s most famous for playing Sarek, but he was also the Romulan commander in _Balance of Terror_ and played one of the “new” Klingons in _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/470 "2018-06-24T21:15:48Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I’m watching another _Alias Smith and Jones_ rerun and Mark Lenard is in this one. He’s most famous for playing Sarek, but he was also the Romulan commander in _Balance of Terror_ and played one of the “new” Klingons in _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_. The answer to a great trivia question; who is the only actor to play a human, a Vulcan, a Romulan, a Klingon, and a gorilla? ---
**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 24, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/471 "2018-06-24T22:20:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > The answer to a great trivia question; who is the only actor to play a human, a Vulcan, a Romulan, a Klingon, and a gorilla? Lenard was a gorilla? Or are you thinking of Janos Prohaska? :dubious: 😕 ---
**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:** [June 24, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/472 "2018-06-24T22:32:58Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Lenard was a gorilla? Or are you thinking of Janos Prohaska? :dubious: 😕 Lenard was a gorilla, but not in _Star Trek_. He had a recurring role in the _Planet of the Apes_ TV series. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/473 "2018-06-26T05:23:09Z")
Just saw the 1965 James Garner/Eva Marie Saint WWII drama _36 Hours_. James Doohan has a single line as a British officer (RAF, I think) in London just before D-Day, and Celia Lovsky (T’Pau) plays an elderly German woman who’s part of the anti-Nazi underground. ---
**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 26, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/474 "2018-06-26T12:28:20Z")
Is that the film where Garner has a paper cut? ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/475 "2018-06-26T12:41:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Lenard was a gorilla, but not in _Star Trek_. He had a recurring role in the _Planet of the Apes_ TV series. He was also in an episode of _Buck Rogers_ as an alien who could remove his own head. Seriously. Wikipedia describes his character as “a mysterious head-removing ambassador.” :eek: ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/476 "2018-06-26T12:46:00Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > He was also in an episode of _Buck Rogers_ as an alien who could remove his own head. Seriously. Wikipedia describes his character as “a mysterious head-removing ambassador.” :eek: An episode called “Journey to Oasis” just to grab as much Star Trek reference as possible. Amazingly enough, Mark Lenard’s head-removing character wasn’t the weirdest thing in that episode - the riddle-spouting, lightning bolt shooting blue dwarf named Odee-x had that honor. Odee-x was played by Felix Silla, who I believe was a Talosian in “The Cage”, by the way. ---
**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 26, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/477 "2018-06-26T12:54:24Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Odee-x was played by Felix Silla, who I believe was a Talosian in “The Cage”, by the way. Better known as “Cousin Itt” on _ **The Addams 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:** [June 26, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/478 "2018-06-26T13:04:12Z")
And the [robot Tiwiki](http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/8/secret-sci-fi-legend-felix-silla.htmlhttp://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/8/secret-sci-fi-legend-felix-silla.htmlhttp://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/8/secret-sci-fi-legend-felix-silla.html)in Buck Rogers. He got around! ---
**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:** [June 26, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/479 "2018-06-26T15:50:26Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Is that the film where Garner has a paper cut? Yes, which turns out to be an important clue. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And the [robot Tiwiki](http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/8/secret-sci-fi-legend-felix-silla.htmlhttp://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/8/secret-sci-fi-legend-felix-silla.htmlhttp://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/10/8/secret-sci-fi-legend-felix-silla.html)in Buck Rogers. He got around! Linky no worky. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/480 "2018-06-26T17:39:28Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > An episode called “Journey to Oasis” just to grab as much Star Trek reference as possible. Amazingly enough, Mark Lenard’s head-removing character wasn’t the weirdest thing in that episode - the riddle-spouting, lightning bolt shooting blue dwarf named Odee-x had that honor. Odee-x was played by Felix Silla, who I believe was a Talosian in “The Cage”, by the way. I would humbly suggest that the weirdest thing about it was Mark Lenard’s dialogue during the head-removal scene. Buck is gawping at this dude who just took off his own head and set it down on a big rock. And Lenard’s disembodied head says, ever so self-righteously, “On my planet, you would be considered a monster because you _can’t_ remove your head.” Truly, a powerful lesson about accepting those who are different! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=25)