# 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:** 34
**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 23, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/661 "2019-04-23T01:30:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I could have sworn Victor Buono was in a TOS episode, but I can’t find it. SFAIK, he guest starred in _ **The Untouchables** _, _ **The Wild, Wild West** _, and _ **Batman** _. _ **ST: TOS** _, never. ---
**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, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/662 "2019-04-23T01:39:15Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > SFAIK, he guest starred in _ **The Untouchables** _, _ **The Wild, Wild West** _, and _ **Batman** _. _ **ST: TOS** _, never. Thanks, terentii. But I got Shatner! ---
**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 23, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/663 "2019-04-23T02:35:19Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Thanks, terentii. But I got Shatner! Life doesn’t get any better than that! 🆒 ---
**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 24, 2019, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/664 "2019-04-24T04:07:21Z")
Robert Phillips (“Nice place you have here, Captain!”) in the \*\*\*M:I \*\*\*episode “The Deal.” I just discovered that the voice of “Transporter Chief Pitcairn” in “The Cage” (played by Clegg Hoyt\*) was dubbed by Bob Johnson, the guy who recorded “Division Seven’s” assignments for the IMF each week: “Your mission, Dan/Jim, should you decide to accept it…” \*Any relation to John “Dr Boyce” Hoyt, I wonder? 😕 ---
**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 24, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/665 "2019-04-24T04:20:02Z")
As an aside, the IMDb notes for “The Cage” say the unnamed transporter technician was one of three Starfleet personnel ever to be seen wearing corrective eyeglasses. In what episode(s) were the other two? 😕 ---
**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 24, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/666 "2019-04-24T14:54:19Z")
Jon Lormer (“Dr. Theodore Haskins” in “The Cage,” “Tamar” in “Return of the Archons,” and the “Old Man” in “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky”) in the \*\*\*MTM \*\*\*episode “Mary and the Sexagenarian.” ---
**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 24, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/667 "2019-04-24T18:39:05Z")
Ed McCready (the barber in “Spectre of the Gun,” _inter alia_) and Bruce Watson (“Crewman Green”) in the \*\*\*M:I \*\*\*episode “Leona.” ---
**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 25, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/668 "2019-04-25T00:09:16Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Thanks, terentii. But I got Shatner! I watched more of the 77 Sunset Strip episode, and saw Shatner chewing the scenery, also the present day Shatner on a commercial. Double points! ---
**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 25, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/669 "2019-04-25T18:22:23Z")
Ray Walston (“Groundskeeper Boothby”) in the _ **M:I** _ episode “TOD-5.” ---
**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 26, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/670 "2019-04-26T18:32:53Z")
Bill “JT Kirk” Shatner and Charles “Adam” Napier in the _ **M:I** _ episode “Cocaine.” ---
**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 29, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/671 "2019-04-29T18:45:57Z")
James B Sikking (“Captain Styles”) as an Underground agent in the _ **HH** _ episode “The Big Broadcast.” Peter Mark Richmond (“Ralph Offenhouse”) and Joseph Bernard (“Tark”) in the \*\*\*M:I \*\*\*episode “Underground.” ---
**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:** [April 30, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/672 "2019-04-30T18:00:45Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > As an aside, the IMDb notes for “The Cage” say the unnamed transporter technician was one of three Starfleet personnel ever to be seen wearing corrective eyeglasses. In what episode(s) were the other two? 😕 I remember that guy, but I can’t think of anyone else other than Kirk with his specs in _TWOK_. ---
**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 30, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/673 "2019-04-30T18:28:23Z")
Rhodes Reason (“Flavius”), David Brian (“John Gill”), and Walter Edmiston (multiple voices) in the \*\*\*M:I \*\*\*episode “Movie.” ---
**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:** [May 2, 2019, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/674 "2019-05-02T14:56:04Z")
Nancy “Nona” Kovack as “Sheila” in the pilot episode of _ **Bewitched** _. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/675 "2019-05-07T18:14:16Z")
Just saw _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ again - it holds up pretty well - and of course noticed Terri Garr as the hero’s baffled wife. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/99/e0/81/99e08101a7d6dd2a505f903e1a23d701--teri-garr-the-close.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/99/e0/81/99e08101a7d6dd2a505f903e1a23d701--teri-garr-the-close.jpg) > **[Terri Garr](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Terri_Garr)** > > Teri Ann Garr (born 11 December 1944; age 78), \[1\] aka Terri Garr is the actress who played Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Assignment: Earth". She filmed her scenes between Wednesday 3 January 1968 and... ---
**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:** [May 7, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/676 "2019-05-07T19:00:11Z")
Joseph “Galt” Ruskin (again!) and John “Commissioner Ferris” Crawford in the \*\*\*M:I \*\*\*episode “The Puppet.” ---
**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:** [May 7, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/677 "2019-05-07T19:42:48Z")
Rene “Odo” Auberjonois as “Professor Tewksbury” in the \*\*\*Frasier \*\*\*episode “Frasier’s Edge.” ---
**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 7, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/678 "2019-05-07T19:48:05Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Rene “Odo” Auberjonois as “Professor Tewksbury” in the \*\*\*Frasier \*\*\*episode “Frasier’s Edge.” He was also in that lawyer show with Shatner. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/679 "2019-05-10T16:07:02Z")
Julie “Lt Palamas” Parrish and Johnny “Constable” Haymer (“Aye, m’Lord. Called 'im ‘Bones,’ 'e did!”) in the _ **HH** _ episode “Kommandant Gertrude.” ---
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Gary Lockwood (“Gary Mitchell”) and Jason Evers (“Rael”) in the \*\*\*M:I \*\*\*episode “The Question.” This episode was written by Stephen Kandel, who wrote the “Harry Mudd” episodes of _ **TOS** _. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=35)