# 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:** 26
**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:** [July 17, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/501 "2018-07-17T18:02:36Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Random Trek search led me to [this page](https://www.metv.com/stories/7-reused-props-that-will-make-you-do-a-double-take) which has some props that were in Trek and elsewhere. The Jupiter 8 from Bread and Circuses is also Catwoman’s car. The Mork and Mindy spacesuit cracked me up! It looks like Mindy’s dad is wearing the helmet from “The Tholian Web” and the cheapo repurposed–shower curtain spacesuit from “The Naked Time.” [![](http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6500000/The-Naked-Time-star-trek-the-original-series-6571179-500-382.jpg) ](http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6500000/The-Naked-Time-star-trek-the-original-series-6571179-500-382.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/502 "2018-07-17T18:16:34Z")
Yeah! The C-57D being reused in the tiny space ship Twilite Zone was a fun find, too. Just used one of the models laying around… ---
**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:** [July 17, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/503 "2018-07-17T19:03:47Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Random Trek search led me to [this page](https://www.metv.com/stories/7-reused-props-that-will-make-you-do-a-double-take) which has some props that were in Trek and elsewhere. The Jupiter 8 from Bread and Circuses is also Catwoman’s car. The Mork and Mindy spacesuit cracked me up! Cool. When I saw _the Forbidden Planet_ saucer on the _Twilight Zone_, I thought they had just standardized flying saucers. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 17, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/504 "2018-07-17T19:06:31Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Yeah! > > The C-57D being reused in the tiny space ship Twilite Zone was a fun find, too. Just used one of the models laying around… Good job remembering the number from the narration. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/505 "2018-07-17T20:39:36Z")
It’s Forbidden Planet! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/506 "2018-07-17T20:41:38Z")
IIRC, FB was one of Roddenberry’s inspirations for ST in the first place ---
**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:** [July 17, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/507 "2018-07-17T21:24:23Z")
A pre-\*\*\*Taxi \*\*\*Christopher Lloyd as the guy with a grudge who trashes the 12th Precinct squadroom on _ **Barney Miller** _. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/508 "2018-07-17T23:27:55Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > IIRC, FB was one of Roddenberry’s inspirations for ST in the first place FP, not FB :dubious: ---
**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:** [July 17, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/509 "2018-07-17T23:33:23Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > IIRC, FB was one of Roddenberry’s inspirations for ST in the first place It could very well be the pilot. “The Captain of star cruiser C-57D, his First Officer and the ship’s Doctor beam down…er, Star cruiser 57-D lands on a planet to evacuate a failed colony. Despite a murderous invisible creature, Dr. Morbius and his daughter do not wish to leave.” The film includes the wonderful line delivered by a swimming Anne Francis, “What’s a bathing suit?” ---
**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:** [July 17, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/510 "2018-07-17T23:57:21Z")
Anne Francis, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/511 "2018-07-18T00:03:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Anne Francis, mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o [Yes.](https://goo.gl/images/ihy3kG) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/512 "2018-07-18T04:05:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > It could very well be the pilot… Yes, I saw it again just a year or so ago, and Roddenberry’s debt to it was very clear. It still holds up pretty well, too. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/513 "2018-07-18T04:43:51Z")
Clint “Balok” Howard as the Smog Strangler suspect in _ **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:** [July 18, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/514 "2018-07-18T21:22:03Z")
Ed “Col Fellini, USAF” Peck as Patrolman Frank Slater in “The Harris Incident” on _ **Barney Miller** _. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/515 "2018-08-11T03:48:02Z")
Just spotted Michelle Forbes (Ens. Ro Laren) as a rebel infantry officer in _Mockingjay, Part 2_, the last of the _Hunger Games_ movies. ---
**Author:** ![ohiomstr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/82dd89/32.png) [@ohiomstr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ohiomstr2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/516 "2018-08-13T13:37:21Z")
[https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=William+shatner+as+racist+provacature+movie&view=detail&mid=1DF31B5D963D32FA70941DF31B5D963D32FA7094&FORM=VIRE&PC=MOZB](https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=William+shatner+as+racist+provacature+movie&view=detail&mid=1DF31B5D963D32FA70941DF31B5D963D32FA7094&FORM=VIRE&PC=MOZB) Found this one on the way back machine Something different ---
**Author:** ![ohiomstr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/82dd89/32.png) [@ohiomstr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ohiomstr2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/517 "2018-08-13T13:44:56Z")
That ship was used many times over the years. > **[Hero Complex](https://www.latimes.com/topic/hero-complex)** > > Science fiction, comic book, fantasy, and video game news. I recall seeing a picture of the prop hanging on someone’s wall I believe Forbidden Planet is the best science fiction film of all time (well so far) I _really_ hope no one tries to remake it. The new TDTESS was a complete disaster and I would hope no one ruins FP in the same way. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/518 "2018-08-13T15:40:25Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Clint “Balok” Howard as the Smog Strangler suspect in _ **Seinfeld** _. Also as the compositized mission controller in _Apollo 13_. Anyone else in both ST and a nonfiction space film/show? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/519 "2018-08-22T14:08:58Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > …Anyone else in both ST and a nonfiction space film/show? _ST_ and the 1998 HBO miniseries _From the Earth to the Moon_ had quite a few actors and actresses in common, mentioned at the end of the second paragraph here: [Daniel Hugh Kelly | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Daniel_Hugh_Kelly) ---
**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:** [August 22, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/520 "2018-08-22T14:41:15Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Also as the compositized mission controller in _Apollo 13_. And the USAF radar operator in the _ **Austin Powers** _ movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=27)