# 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:** 27
**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:** [October 25, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/521 "2018-10-25T21:37:20Z")
Just saw Reg Barcley (Dwight Schultz) in an ep of CHiPs that also had a lot of Michael Dorn (as Officer Jebidiah Turner, not as Worf) in it. [The Hawk and the Hunter - Season 4 Episode](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0534531/?ref_=ttep_ep18) … ---
**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:** [October 25, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/522 "2018-10-25T22:06:51Z")
This was a two-fer. Actually a one-fer. No, a two-fer. I was watching the [The Old Man Picked a Lemon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584022/reference) ep of the 1960s series “The Fugitive,” and I noticed at the end of the program. . . Leonard Nimoy! At least I thought it was, but I didn’t see his name in the credits. He had had enough acting credits at the time that although he could have been uncredited, it seemed unlikely. But I did pick out another name in the credits that I recognized. . . Jan Shutan, who played Lt. Mira Romaine in “The Lights of Zetar.” Then I noticed that the character of “The Sheriff” was played by an actor named Lawrence Montaigne. So, I rewound and thought, “OK, there is a resemblance, both in appearance and voice, to some extent, but not Nimoy” But. . . lookie, lookie, here. . . Montaigne did play a Vulcan and a Romulan in the original series, and had Nimoy left the series, [was considered to be the replacement character](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lawrence-montaigne-dead-star-trek-actor-who-replaced-leonard-nimoy-was-86-987230). ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/523 "2018-10-26T00:12:05Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > This was a two-fer. Actually a one-fer. No, a two-fer. I had a two-fer of my own today: William Schallert (“Nilz Baris” in “The Trouble with Tribbles”) and William Windom (“Commodore Decker” in “The Doomsday Machine”), both doing faux European accents on “The Train,” Episode 24, Season 1 of the original _ **Mission: Impossible** _. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/524 "2018-10-26T00:19:08Z")
A couple of days ago, Ricardo Montalban (“Khan Noonian Singh” in “Space Seed”) was a sadistic penal colony warden in “Snowball in Hell,” Episode 21, Season 1 of the original _ **Mission: Impossible** _. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/525 "2018-10-26T00:33:20Z")
Tomorrow’s episode of _ **M:I** _ should be “Shock” with James Daly (“Mr Flint” in “Requiem for Methuselah”) and Vic Perrin (“Tharn”/“Tharn” in “Mirror, Mirror”; the voice of the Metron in “Arena”; the voice of NOMAD in “The Changeling”; the voice of The Keeper in “The Menagerie”). ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/526 "2018-10-26T00:59:01Z")
There was a lot of crossover between _ **TOS and M:I, since they were both filmed at Desilu. The first-season episode of M:I** _ where it was greatest was number 8, “The Ransom”: William Smithers (“Merricus” in “Bread and Circuses”), Don Marshall (“Lt Boma” in “The Galileo Seven”), Eddie Paskey (“Lt Leslie” in multiple episodes), and Vic Tayback (“Jojo Krako” in “A Piece of the Action”). ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/527 "2018-10-26T15:30:36Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > There was a lot of crossover between _ **TOS and M:I, since they were both filmed at Desilu. The first-season episode of M:I** _ where it was greatest was number 8, “The Ransom”: William Smithers (“Merricus” in “Bread and Circuses”), Don Marshall (“Lt Boma” in “The Galileo Seven”), Eddie Paskey (“Lt Leslie” in multiple episodes), and Vic Tayback (“Jojo Krako” in “A Piece of the Action”). Leonard Nimoy went to M:I after Trek, did he not? ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/528 "2018-10-26T18:03:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Leonard Nimoy went to M:I after Trek, did he not? He became a regular in the fourth season, after Martin Landau and Barbara Bain left. SFAIK, he was never a guest star. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/529 "2018-10-26T18:12:09Z")
Landau, Bain, and Nimoy were never guests in my kitchen. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/530 "2018-10-26T18:35:14Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Landau, Bain, and Nimoy were never guests in my kitchen. How about Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz, and Lucille LeSueur? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/531 "2018-10-27T18:44:57Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Clint “Balok” Howard as the Smog Strangler suspect in _ **Seinfeld** _. Recently I noticed him on Star Trek: Discovery as the Orion who tries to steal something from one of the crewmembers. Great cameo! ---
**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:** [December 14, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/532 "2018-12-14T20:40:16Z")
I was just watching a 1987 episode of _Spenser: For Hire_. The actor playing the hot-headed oldest son of a Boston Irish crime boss seemed very familiar. I checked IMDB and it’s Timothy Carhart, who was so annoyingly insubordinate as Data’s acting First Officer in the second TNG episode about the Klingon Civil War. > **[Christopher Hobson](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_Hobson)** > > Lieutenant Commander Christopher Hobson was a Human Starfleet officer who served as Data's first officer aboard the USS Sutherland during Captain Jean-Luc Picard's blockade of the Klingon-Romulan border in 2368. His first official act in that... ---
**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:** [December 15, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/533 "2018-12-15T02:12:51Z")
Ken Lynch, head mining engineer in _The Devil in the Dark,_ in the \*Wagon Train \*episode, _The Alice Whitetree Story_ plays the usual jerk Sheriff. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/534 "2018-12-15T05:30:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I was just watching a 1987 episode of _Spenser: For Hire_. The actor playing the hot-headed oldest son of a Boston Irish crime boss seemed very familiar. I checked IMDB and it’s Timothy Carhart, who was so annoyingly insubordinate as Data’s acting First Officer in the second TNG episode about the Klingon Civil War. Did he have any scenes with Cmdr. Sisko ---
**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:** [December 15, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/535 "2018-12-15T18:14:49Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Did he have any scenes with Cmdr. Sisko He did! They twice pointed guns at each other, but didn’t shoot. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/536 "2018-12-15T18:21:27Z")
Wow! am I out of it: I never made the connection of Dwight (Barclay) Schultz and “Howling Mad” Murdock of **The A-Team** , probably because I’ve never seen an episode of A-Team. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/537 "2018-12-19T01:41:33Z")
A three-way on today’s episode of _ **Mission: Impossible** _, “The Play”: John “Cor” Colicos, Barry “Surak” Atwater, and Charles “Adam” Napier. An interesting sidenote: Clete Roberts, who played a TV newsman/interviewer on many shows, including _MAS_H\*\*\*, was in this episode too, playing … a TV newsman. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/538 "2018-12-19T02:04:45Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > A three-way on today’s episode of _ **Mission: Impossible** _, “The Play”: John “Cor” Colicos, Barry “Surak” Atwater, and Charles “Adam” Napier. Make that a seven-way: Jason Wingreen, “Dr Linke” in “The Empath,” was in it too. So were Charles “Wyatt Earp” Maxwell; Ed “‘Multiple Roles,’ including ‘Boy Monster’ in ‘Miri’” McCready; and David “‘More Multiple Roles’ including ‘Kartan’ in ‘Operation: Annihilate’” Armstrong. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/539 "2018-12-19T02:07:08Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Make that a seven-way: Jason Wingreen, “Dr Linke” in “The Empath,” was in it too. So were Charles “Wyatt Earp” Maxwell; Ed “‘Multiple Roles,’ including ‘Boy Monster’ in ‘Miri’” McCready; and David “‘More Multiple Roles’ including ‘Kartan’ in ‘Operation: Annihilate’” Armstrong. That must be a record beater. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/540 "2018-12-19T02:10:01Z")
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