# 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:** 38
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/741 "2019-09-04T17:11:15Z")
Sabrina “Miramanee” Scharf as Daniel J Travanti’s fiancée in the \*\*\*Gidget \*\*\*episode “Now, There’s a Face!” This one is a real hoot. Gidget (15 1/2) falls in love with Travanti (supposedly 24), a photographer and former GI she meets on the beach. Nowadays, you’d see this scenario in a documentary on serial killers. Of course, it’s all very innocent. It turns out Travanti is engaged, and he’s so wrapped up in his career (photographing jail bait on the beach; nice work, if you can find it) he can’t imagine that Gidget might be in love with him. Naturally, Gidget’s dad is very understanding and sympathetic. He would never dream of telling the young man to stay away from his underage daughter. This even tops the scene in yesterday’s episode where Gunnar puts Inge over his knee and spanks her when he finds out she’s been acting like a typical American teenager. It was definitely a different era! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/742 "2019-09-04T17:18:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dan Butler appears in a conference-room scene and has a single line in the 1986 crime thriller _Manhunter_: [Dan Butler | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dan_Butler) Bulldog was on _ **Star Trek** _?!? :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:** [September 4, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/743 "2019-09-04T17:24:37Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Sabrina “Miramanee” Scharf as Daniel J Travanti’s fiancée in the \*\*\*Gidget \*\*\*episode “Now, There’s a Face!” > > This one is a real hoot. Gidget (15 1/2) falls in love with Travanti (supposedly 24), a photographer and former GI she meets on the beach. Nowadays, you’d see this scenario in a documentary on serial killers. > > Of course, it’s all very innocent. It turns out Travanti is engaged, and he’s so wrapped up in his career (photographing jail bait on the beach; nice work, if you can find it) he can’t imagine that Gidget might be in love with him. Naturally, Gidget’s dad is very understanding and sympathetic. He would never dream of telling the young man to stay away from his underage daughter. > > ! In a different episode, Gidget falls in love with a fellow she meets on the beach over the summer - and in September, she learns that he’s her math teacher at the high school. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/744 "2019-09-04T17:27:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Ken Lynch, the mining chief from _Devil In The Dark_, in the \*77 Sunset Strip \*episode, _Publicity Brat._ Also starring Virginia Christine of Folger’s Coffee comercials: “It’s the richest kind!” … And Eva “the Immigrant” in the classic _ **Billy the Kid vs Dracula** _, one of those movies that’s so wretchedly bad it’s good: “Vat’s de matter, child?” “Oh, it’s Billy. Lately he’s been asking me to do the _strangest things_…” “Vat does he vant you to _do_, child?” “Well, just this morning, he asked me to get my uncle to stand in front of a _mirror_ for me!” “_ **GASP!** _ De vampire test!” :eek: “What?” “Oh … nothing…” :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/745 "2019-09-04T17:31:01Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > In a different episode, Gidget falls in love with a fellow she meets on the beach over the summer - and in September, she learns that he’s her math teacher at the high school. Oh, I’ll look forward to that one! :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/746 "2019-09-04T18:21:09Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Well, just this morning, he asked me to get my uncle to stand in front of a _mirror_ for me!” > > “_ **GASP!** _ De vampire test!” :eek: > > “What?” > > “Oh … nothing…” :rolleyes: I _MUST_ see this! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/747 "2019-09-04T18:28:52Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I _MUST_ see this! It \*is \*on the Internet. And Dracula is played by none other than… John “The Preacher” Carradine! :eek: It’s a laugh a minute: “I’m going to lock you two in the \*toolshed \*until tomorrow morning.” “_ **GASP!** _ But dat’ll be too _late_!” “What do you mean by _that_?” “Oh … nothing…” ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/748 "2019-09-04T20:03:19Z")
Thanks, terentii. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/749 "2019-09-09T03:41:20Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Bulldog was on _ **Star Trek** _?!? :eek: It’s true! Len Cariou, a _VGR_ guest star, was nominated for an Emmy for his role as FDR in the Winston Churchill WWII movie _Into the Storm_, which I saw last night: [Len Cariou | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Len_Cariou) ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/750 "2019-09-09T18:14:55Z")
> [@Trafalgar\_Laura](#): > > Rene Auberjonois, or Odo from DS9, played Frasier’s psychology mentor from school in a few episodes of Frasier. He voiced the character “Mr. House” in the video game Fallout: New Vegas. Sort of a creepy character; a technical tycoon from the pre-war past who has been keeping himself alive with the help of teams of securitron robots. His onscreen presence was a still photo of him staring out at you, big brother style, looking like Howard Hughes. And his voice was that familiar one from DS9. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/751 "2019-09-09T23:15:29Z")
I just saw Ian Wolfe, who played Mr. Atoz in TOS’ “All of Our Yesterdays”, was greedy bank owner John Harrison in the Bonanza episode, “Bank Run”. [Bank Run](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0529504/) was one of Bonanza’s occasional comic episodes in which Little Joe and Hoss wind up robbing a bank (for strictly heroic reasons, of course). ---
**Author:** ![shstrang98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@shstrang98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shstrang98)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/752 "2019-09-11T17:47:27Z")
Decker from TMP stephen collins was in 7th heaven The whale biologist from the Voyage Home was the wife in 7th Heaven ---
**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:** [September 11, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/753 "2019-09-11T19:28:58Z")
I was watching the episode _The Ship_ on _Star Trek: Deep Space 9_ the other night, which had the following exchange between a crewman and Chief O’Brien (Colm Meaney). Muñiz: I thought maybe you just stopped to catch your breath. Chief O’Brien: Me, out of breath? I was climbing mountains in Ireland before you were born. Muñiz: You mean hills, don’t you? They’ve gently sloping hills in Ireland - no mountains. But what do I know? After all, you’re the mountain man - an old mountain man. Chief O’Brien: You know something, Muñiz? You’re due for a transfer. How does waste extraction sound? I caught the joke right away. The writers were having fun with Meaney’s role in the movie _The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill, But Came Down A Mountain_. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/754 "2019-09-12T04:48:11Z")
> [@shstrang98](#): > > Decker from TMP stephen collins was in 7th heaven > The whale biologist from the Voyage Home was the wife in 7th Heaven Collins got in pretty big trouble later: [Stephen Collins - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Collins#Sexual_abuse_allegations_and_confession) ---
**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:** [September 13, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/755 "2019-09-13T06:02:35Z")
In doing a quick search of this thread, I noticed no one has mentioned Rosalind Chao as Klinger’s wife, Soon-Lee on _M_A_S_H\* and as Keiko O’brien on _ST:TNG_ and _DS9_. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/756 "2019-09-15T00:45:04Z")
Julie “Eleen” Newmar, the original “Catwoman” on _ **Batman** _, reprised the role by voicing the character in Warner Bros. animated \*\*\*Return of the Caped Crusaders. \*\*\* [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqEWavOxmWM) I had as much fun watching this cartoon as I did when the original series debuted in January 1966! :o ---
**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:** [September 15, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/757 "2019-09-15T00:56:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Julie “Eleen” Newmar, the original “Catwoman” on _ **Batman** _, reprised the role by voicing the character in Warner Bros. animated \*\*\*Return of the Caped Crusaders. \*\*\* > > [https://youtu.be/xqEWavOxmWM?t=149](https://youtu.be/xqEWavOxmWM?t=149) > > I had as much fun watching this cartoon as I did when the original series debuted in January 1966! :o One of three actors who were on both Batman and Star Trek. Frank “The Riddler” Gorshin played Commissioner Bele in _Let That Be Your Last Battlefield_ and Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig played Marta, the Orion woman in \*Whom Gods Destroy. \* ---
**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:** [September 15, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/758 "2019-09-15T01:01:03Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > One of three actors who were on both Batman and Star Trek. Frank “The Riddler” Gorshin played Commissioner Bele in _Let That Be Your Last Battlefield_ and Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig played Marta, the Orion woman in \*Whom Gods Destroy. \* Also, Julie “Lt Palomas” Parrish, as a beauty queen kidnapped by the Penguin. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/759 "2019-09-15T01:03:26Z")
I just posted this in another thread, but it fits here as well. Armin “Quark” Shimmerman played the owner of a Briard dog who offered Al Bundy $10,000 to breed her with Buck in the _Married With Children_ episode “Buck the Stud”. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/760 "2019-09-19T22:41:33Z")
Henry Woronicz, multiple roles in \*\*\*TNG \*\*\*and _ **VOY** _, as “Father Curtis” on _ **Seinfeld** _. Among other roles, he was also leader of the KACL focus group on _ **Frasier** _. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=39)