# 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:** 28
**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 20, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/541 "2018-12-20T18:52:43Z")
Kor blimey! Frank Langella was good as a scheming Bajoran politician on _DS9_, but he was even better as a scheming White House chief of staff in _Dave_, which I just watched again. Good stuff. > **[Jaro Essa](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jaro_Essa)** > > Jaro Essa was a male Bajoran who lived during the 24th century. A politician, he rose to the position of minister in the Bajoran Provisional Government, later becoming leader of the Alliance for Global Unity. In 2370, Jaro became the leader of the... > **[Film Yap | Christopher Lloyd | Substack](https://filmyap.substack.com/)** > > Essential movie reviews, commentary and news from Hoosier film critics. Click to read Film Yap, a Substack publication with thousands of readers. ---
**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 20, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/542 "2018-12-20T19:10:42Z")
Warren “Rojan” Stevens and Phillip “Col Green” Pine were in yesterday’s episode of _ **M:I** _, “The Bargain.” So was James Wellman (“Professor Starnes” in “And the Children Shall Lead”). ---
**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 20, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/543 "2018-12-20T19:51:02Z")
Here’s one for you: Vince Howard, “Uhura’s Crewman” in “The Man Trap,” is in today’s _ **M:I** _. We could do a whole thread on this series alone! ---
**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 20, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/544 "2018-12-20T22:07:57Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Kor blimey! No, that’d be “‘Kooor’ blimey!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/545 "2018-12-20T23:14:06Z")
_cough_ IMDb _cough_ 🆒 ---
**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 20, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/546 "2018-12-20T23:40:39Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > _cough_ IMDb _cough_ 🆒 ¿Qué? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/547 "2018-12-20T23:44:24Z")
Kate Mulgrew was actually in our house, with her former husband Tim Hagan. My parents somehow knew Hagan. And many years previously, he had celebrated his 30th birthday in our house. ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/548 "2018-12-21T02:11:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > ¿Qué? 😕 IMDb is the movie database. It show all the appearances the actors made. ---
**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 21, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/549 "2018-12-21T02:14:11Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > IMDb is the movie database. It show all the appearances the actors made. Yes, I know. What’s your point? ---
**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 24, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/550 "2018-12-24T05:21:24Z")
Just watched the Coen Brothers’ offbeat (and quite good) new Western-anthology movie, _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_, and noticed three actors with previous _Star Trek_ credits: > **[Saul Rubinek](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Saul_Rubinek)** > > Saul Rubinek (born 2 July 1948; age 74) is the German-born Canadian actor who played Kivas Fajo in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episode "The Most Toys". Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Germany, the son of... [https://media.services.cinergy.ch/media/card-teaser-4\_3-364x274/fe991544406f583ce8209710de6090f0ec048ef4.jpg](https://media.services.cinergy.ch/media/card-teaser-4_3-364x274/fe991544406f583ce8209710de6090f0ec048ef4.jpg) (the guy on the left) > **[Clancy Brown](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Clancy_Brown)** > > Clancy Brown (born 5 January 1959; age 64) is the American actor who played Zobral in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Desert Crossing". He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Highlander, The Shawshank Redemption, and... [![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fLX7aiXjJaE/T-FyZoRrdrI/AAAAAAAAEtg/V1Rc2BYTFKk/s1600/bscap1069.jpg) ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fLX7aiXjJaE/T-FyZoRrdrI/AAAAAAAAEtg/V1Rc2BYTFKk/s1600/bscap1069.jpg) > **[Stephen Root](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Root)** > > Stephen Root (born 17 November 1951; age 71) is the actor who played Captain K'Vada in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episodes "Unification I" and "Unification II". He filmed his scenes on Monday 16 September 1991 and Tuesday 24... [https://movieandtvcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Stephen-Root-in-Buster-Scruggs-750x310-1.jpg](https://movieandtvcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Stephen-Root-in-Buster-Scruggs-750x310-1.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:** [December 24, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/551 "2018-12-24T17:34:50Z")
Saul Rubinek is Artie, the front guy for Warehouse 13. Kate Mulgrew plays Pete’s Mom, and is a regent of the Warehouse. Data was in it, too, as a monk. Well, not Data, but Spiner… Hell, I still call the head of NCIS New Orleans Captain Quantum. ---
**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 25, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/552 "2018-12-25T19:45:24Z")
Paul “Lt Lee Kelso” Carr in today’s episode of _ **M:I** _, “The Test Case.” ---
**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 30, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/553 "2018-12-30T19:17:25Z")
Just saw Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates, a merchant captain and Sisko’s squeeze on DS9) as a Washington homicide detective in Clint Eastwood’s 1997 political thriller _Absolute Power_. ---
**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 18, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/554 "2019-01-18T01:35:25Z")
The head mining engineer from _The Trouble With Tribbles_ played the Marshall in \*the Have Gun Will Travel \*episode, _The Marshall’s Boy._ Gene Roddenberry wrote for _Have Gun Will Travel_, but he did not write this episode. That would be too cool. ---
**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 18, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/555 "2019-01-18T02:10:07Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The head mining engineer from _The Trouble With Tribbles_ played the Marshall in \*the Have Gun Will Travel \*episode, _The Marshall’s Boy._ > > Gene Roddenberry wrote for _Have Gun Will Travel_, but he did not write this episode. That would be too cool. Surely you mean _ **The Devil in the Dark** _? :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:** [January 18, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/556 "2019-01-18T11:34:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Surely you mean _ **The Devil in the Dark** _? :dubious: 😕 Indeed. I am suitably embarrassed. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/557 "2019-01-18T21:29:31Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Indeed. > I am suitably embarrassed. Your agonizer, please ---
**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 18, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/558 "2019-01-18T21:56:47Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Your agonizer, please That bears sucks, dude. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/559 "2019-01-18T23:34:50Z")
Yeah… ---
**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:** [January 29, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/560 "2019-01-29T16:19:18Z")
Just saw _All the President’s Men_ (1976), and didn’t realize until I checked the credits that F. Murray Abraham is on-screen for maybe ten seconds as a D.C. undercover cop who responds to the Watergate break-in. [![](https://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/7/74/Vlcsnap-2011-09-07-16h51m34s205.jpg/600px-Vlcsnap-2011-09-07-16h51m34s205.jpg) ](https://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/7/74/Vlcsnap-2011-09-07-16h51m34s205.jpg/600px-Vlcsnap-2011-09-07-16h51m34s205.jpg) > **[Ru'afo](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ru%27afo)** > > Ahdar Ru'afo was the leader of the nomadic Son'a people, who attempted to oust the Ba'ku people from their homeworld in 2375. Born Ro'tin of the Ba'ku, Ru'afo became dissatisfied with the simple life that the other inhabitants of the colony endorsed,... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=29)