# 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:** 44
**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 31, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/861 "2020-01-31T03:02:26Z")
Ed Begley, Jr, aka “Henry Starling” in _ **Voyager** _, as “Officer Stein” in the \*\*\*Columbo \*\*\*episode “How to Dial a Murder.” ---
**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 31, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/862 "2020-01-31T20:42:03Z")
Barbara Babcock (again) as rich socialite “Penelope Janvier” in the \*\*\*Frasier \*\*\*episode “It Takes Two to Tangle.” ---
**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 31, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/863 "2020-01-31T20:47:09Z")
Also in this episode is Damara Reilly, the female surgeon in the \*\*\*Voyager \*\*\*episode “Workforce, Pt 2,” as Marty’s girlfriend “Estelle.” ---
**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:** [February 4, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/864 "2020-02-04T02:03:31Z")
Stanley Adams, Cyrano Jones in _The Trouble With Tribbles_, played “The Baron” in \*Peter Gunn, Murder on the Midway. \* ---
**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:** [February 6, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/865 "2020-02-06T17:16:31Z")
Grace Lee Whitney (“Yeoman Rand”), Lee Meriwether (“Losira”), and Lloyd Haynes (“Lt Alden”) in the \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*episode “King Tut’s Coup.” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/866 "2020-02-07T00:30:53Z")
William Schallert, Nilz Baris in _The Trouble With Tribbles_ as the Middleton hotel clerk in the incredibly bad TV show,\* Five Fingers\* episode,\* The Unknown Town\*. This series was so bad that David Hedison, later captain Crane of _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_, was asked to change his stage name, although apparently, he did 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:** [February 7, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/867 "2020-02-07T00:46:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > William Schallert, Nilz Baris in _The Trouble With Tribbles_ as the Middleton hotel clerk in the incredibly bad TV show,\* Five Fingers\* episode,\* The Unknown Town\*. > This series was so bad that David Hedison, later captain Crane of _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_, was asked to change his stage name, although apparently, he did not. I discovered a couple of days ago that I can watch \*\*\*Voyage \*\*\* every day at noon on my cable channel 324. Hoo-boy, I had forgotten just how bad it really is. I had to switch it off today right after the \*Seaview \*fired its underwater laser. By that time my brain had started to hurt. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/868 "2020-02-07T01:10:29Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > William Schallert, Nilz Baris in _The Trouble With Tribbles_ as the Middleton hotel clerk in the incredibly bad TV show,\* Five Fingers\* episode,\* The Unknown Town\*. > This series was so bad that David Hedison, later captain Crane of _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_, was asked to change his stage name, although apparently, he did not. This episode also has Michael J. Pollard, Jahn in _Miri_, as “Davey”. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/869 "2020-02-07T01:32:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I discovered a couple of days ago that I can watch \*\*\*Voyage \*\*\* every day at noon on my cable channel 324. Hoo-boy, I had forgotten just how bad it really is. I had to switch it off today right after the \*Seaview \*fired its underwater laser. By that time my brain had started to hurt. I record \*Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea \*on Comcast. I can sometimes make it through an entire episode. Hedison is much better in **Five Fingers** from the single episode I’ve watched. I was eight when Voyage aired, and I thought it was stupid then. At least they had 1911A .45s instead of the snub nosed .38s on every other TV show of the time. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/870 "2020-02-07T01:50:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I record \*Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea \*on Comcast. I can sometimes make it through an entire episode. Hedison is much better in **Five Fingers** from the single episode I’ve watched. > > I was eight when Voyage aired, and I thought it was stupid then. At least they had 1911A .45s instead of the snub nosed .38s on every other TV show of the time. I was nine in 1964. The early Cold War/espionage episodes were pretty good (or so I remember), but everything went downhill rapidly not long afterwards. The thing that strikes me about every Irwin Allen series is just how much time is taken up with people getting knocked around to the same uber-dramatic music. Filler like that made it easy to meet air dates. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/871 "2020-02-07T02:27:14Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I was nine in 1964. The early Cold War/espionage episodes were pretty good (or so I remember), but everything went downhill rapidly not long afterwards. > > The thing that strikes me about every Irwin Allen series is just how much time is taken up with people getting knocked around to the same uber-dramatic music. Filler like that made it easy to meet air dates. That is what reviewers say. I am looking forward to seeing the early episodes. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/872 "2020-02-07T18:01:13Z")
Meg Wylie (“The Keeper”) as a robotic grandma in the \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*episode “Black Widow Strikes Again.” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/873 "2020-02-07T19:20:16Z")
Rosalind Chao (“Keiko O’Brien”) as “Mary Wilson” in the _ **St Elsewhere** _ episode “Not My Type.” ---
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Ken Lynch, Vandenburg the head mining guy from _Devil in the Dark_, played Grenfeld in the\* Rawhide\* episode, _Abilene._ Another actor who was [all over the place.](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528373/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10) ---
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Jason Isaacs of _Star Trek: Discovery_ played Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov (after whom the starship USS _Zhukov_ was named - bonus link!) in the 2018 dark comedy _The Death of Stalin_. [![](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriel_Lorca?file=Gabriel_Lorca.jpg) ](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriel_Lorca?file=Gabriel_Lorca.jpg) [![](http://www.cinesnob.net/wp-content/uploads/jasonisaacspic.jpg) ](http://www.cinesnob.net/wp-content/uploads/jasonisaacspic.jpg) > **[USS Zhukov](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Zhukov)** > > The USS Zhukov (NCC-26136) was a 24th century Federation Ambassador-class starship operated by Starfleet. It was under the command of Captain Gleason. Reginald Barclay served on the Zhukov prior to his transfer to the USS Enterprise-D in 2366. (TNG:... ---
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Diana Muldaur, Dr. Pulaski in STNG, Miranda Jones, _Is There No Truth In Beauty?_, Ann Mulhall in _Return to Tomorrow_, played Claire in _The Invaders_ episode, \*Life Seekers. \* ---
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> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I record \*Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea \*on Comcast. I can sometimes make it through an entire episode. Hedison is much better in **Five Fingers** from the single episode I’ve watched. Tell me if Admiral Nelson doesn’t come off as an older, burned-out version of Captain Kirk. I was struck the other day by the similarity between Basehart and Shatner’s styles of acting, especially when they chuckle sardonically. Of course, there are so many similarities between \*\*\*Voyage \*\*\*and _ **Star Trek: TOS** _ that I find it hard to believe they were coincidental. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/878 "2020-02-10T02:41:19Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Tell me if Admiral Nelson doesn’t come off as an older, burned-out version of Captain Kirk. I was struck the other day by the similarity between Basehart and Shatner’s styles of acting, especially when they chuckle sardonically. > > Of course, there are so many similarities between \*\*\*Voyage \*\*\*and _ **Star Trek: TOS** _ that I find it hard to believe they were coincidental. Hmmm… But Star Trek is real, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a TV show. :dubious: ---
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Just saw the wonderful 1984 Mozart movie _Amadeus_, and spotted two _ST_ alums: [![](https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/2405056/740full-vincent-schiavelli.jpg) ](https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/2405056/740full-vincent-schiavelli.jpg) > **[Vincent Schiavelli](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Vincent_Schiavelli)** > > Vincent Schiavelli (10 November 1948 – 26 December 2005; age 57) was the Italian-American character actor who appeared as the holographic Minosian peddler in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "The Arsenal of Freedom". He... [![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ufQCTT1AJL0/TFgR_jQgKaI/AAAAAAAAAvo/C0iTvfu3lqQ/s1600/1984+F.+Murray+Abraham+in+Amadeus.jpg) ](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ufQCTT1AJL0/TFgR_jQgKaI/AAAAAAAAAvo/C0iTvfu3lqQ/s1600/1984+F.+Murray+Abraham+in+Amadeus.jpg) > **[F. Murray Abraham](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/F._Murray_Abraham)** > > F. Murray Abraham (born 24 October 1939; age 83) is the actor who portrayed Ahdar Ru'afo in Star Trek: Insurrection. He is primarily a stage actor, though he has appeared in many films and several television productions. He is perhaps best known for... ---
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Julie “Lt Palomas” Parrish and Elisha “Samuel Cogley” Cook, Jr, as a figure skater and Icelandic scientist, respectively, in the \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*episode “Ice Spy.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=45)