# 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:** 39
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/761 "2019-09-19T23:00:54Z")
Also in the \*\*\*Seinfeld \*\*\*episode “The Burning” is “Medical Student” Daniel Dae Kim, aka “Cpl Chang” on \*\*\*ENT \*\*\*and “Astronaut–Gotana-Retz” on _ **VOY** _. ---
**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, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/762 "2019-09-19T23:11:14Z")
One more from “The Burning”: “The Doctor” Ursaline Bryant, aka “Capt Scott” in the \*\*\*TNG \*\*\*episode “Conspiracy.” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/763 "2019-09-19T23:23:05Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 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_. She was also in a couple of episodes of \*Max Headroom \*as a jr. reporter. ---
**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, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/764 "2019-09-19T23:59:41Z")
> [@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. \* Looking over the full cast list for _ **Batman** _, there were a LOT of actors who appeared in both. They include Grace Lee Whitney, Roger C Carmel, Lee Meriwether, Joan Collins, Ted Cassidy, Malachi Throne, Meg Wyllie, Charles Dierkop, Teri Garr, Angelique Pettyjohn, Bill Quinn, Stanley Adams, Lloyd Hanes, Billy Curtis, Marianna Hill, Nancy Kovack, and Sherry Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/765 "2019-09-20T00:08:33Z")
And Frank Gorshin. ---
**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 20, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/766 "2019-09-20T00:13:39Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > And Frank Gorshin. Already mentioned. ---
**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 20, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/767 "2019-09-20T04:02:32Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 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_. I was watching “Shore Leave” for the first time in many years the other day. This passage caught my attention: **TONIA:** He had a cloak, sir, and a dagger with jewels on it. \*\*KIRK: \*\*Are you sure you’re not imagining all this? **TONIA:** Captain, I know it sounds incredible, but I did not imagine it any more than I imagined he did this. **MCCOY:** Sounds like Don Juan. **TONIA:** Yes. Yes. It was so sort of story book walking around here, and I was thinking, all a girl needs is Don Juan. Just day dreaming, the way you would about someone you’d like to meet. \*\*KIRK: \*\*Mister Sulu was with you. Where is he now? **TONIA:** He ran after him. That last bit kinda takes on a whole new meaning now, doesn’t it? 😉 ---
**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 25, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/768 "2019-09-25T15:12:15Z")
LOL. I was just at the Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill., which is worth a visit. No reference to the President’s appearance in “The Savage Curtain,” but there was a mini-theater with an interactive “Ask Mr. Lincoln” series of FAQs on everything from the Presidency, to growing up on a farm, to religion (he liked preachers “who look like they’re fighting bees”) and the Civil War. The narrator was the late William Schallert, Nilz Baris in “The Trouble with Tribbles.” He had a bit more of a Kentucky twang than the Federation bureaucrat we all saw, but you can definitely recognize his voice. ---
**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 25, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/769 "2019-09-25T15:32:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > LOL. > > I was just at the Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill., which is worth a visit. No reference to the President’s appearance in “The Savage Curtain,” but there was a mini-theater with an interactive “Ask Mr. Lincoln” series of FAQs on everything from the Presidency, to growing up on a farm, to religion (he liked preachers “who look like they’re fighting bees”) and the Civil War. The narrator was the late William Schallert, Nilz Baris in “The Trouble with Tribbles.” He had a bit more of a Kentucky twang than the Federation bureaucrat we all saw, but you can definitely recognize his voice. He’s normally portrayed as being more of a baritone (like Gregory Peck), but contemporary reports say Lincoln had a high, reedy voice that carried well, even in wide open spaces (like at Gettysburg). Of course, the “Lincoln” we saw on _ **TOS** _ came straight from Kirk’s imagination, so he was probably influenced by watching old movies. ---
**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 25, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/770 "2019-09-25T18:58:39Z")
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**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 25, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/771 "2019-09-25T19:05:41Z")
Jennifer Savidge, aka “Fala” on _ **DS9** _, as “Nurse Lucy Papandrao” in _ **St Elsewhere** _. ---
**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 27, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/772 "2019-09-27T18:16:44Z")
Kavi Raz, “Assistant Chief Engineer Singh” on _ **TNG** _, as “Dr Vijay Kochar” on _ **St Elsewhere** _. Looking at his page at Memory Alpha, I see a lot of other Trek alumni appeared on that show: > **[Kavi Raz](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kavi_Raz)** > > Kavi Raz (born 1 January 1953; age 70) is the actor who played Assistant Chief Engineer Lieutenant junior grade Singh in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Lonely Among Us". His previous television credits include guest... Singh was the ultimate redshirt, even though Engineering was by this time gold: He was zapped by an alien before the second commercial break. ☹ ---
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Ian Wolfe, Mr. Atoz, in the _Peter Gunn_ episode _The Deep End_, season 3, episode 22. He is no more believable in \*Peter Gunn \*than in _All Our Yesterdays_. ---
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John “Mr Hengist/Jack the Ripper” Fiedler as “Fred” in _ **Cheers** _’ “The Tortelli Tort.” ---
**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:** [October 13, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/775 "2019-10-13T04:22:41Z")
Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn on _TNG_) appears as an alien in NYC in the first _Men in Black_ movie, which I saw again tonight for the first time in years. Still a lot of fun. > **[Homn](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Homn)** > > Mr. Homn was the valet of Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi. Wherever she went, he usually followed. Homn had ties to the Troi family as early as the 2330s. When Lwaxana Troi began destroying all evidence of Kestra, a daughter that died in childhood,... > **[Carel Struycken!](https://www.listal.com/viewimage/2303698)** > > Carel Struycken! ---
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Dwight “Reg Barclay” Schultz as “Officer Carmichael” in the _ **Hill Street Blues** _ episode “Life, Death, Eternity.” ---
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Ian “Mr Atoz” Wolfe as WWI vet “Buzz Crowder” in the _ **Cheers!** _ episode “One for the Book.” ---
**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 15, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/778 "2019-10-15T01:16:52Z")
Watching _the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode, Fatal Cargo_, I see a white gorilla suit that looks like mogato critter sans horn from _A Private Little War._ It growls like a gorn. I wonder if the two shows shared a white gorilla suit and sound effects. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/779 "2019-10-15T01:44:19Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Watching _the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode, Fatal Cargo_, I see a white gorilla suit that looks like mogato critter sans horn from _A Private Little War._ It growls like a gorn. I wonder if the two shows shared a white gorilla suit and sound effects. Don’t know about sound efx, but the suit is the same, as is the actor in it: [https://www.harpiesbizarre.com/creature.htm](https://www.harpiesbizarre.com/creature.htm) > **[This is the man behind the mask of all those '60s and '70s TV creatures](https://www.metv.com/lists/this-is-the-man-behind-the-mask-of-all-those-60s-and-70s-tv-creatures)** > > From 'Star Trek' aliens to a much more literal kind of monkey business on 'Perry Mason.' -----Note #13 ---
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