# 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:** 46
**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 21, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/901 "2020-02-21T23:49:13Z")
Perry “Rodriguez” Lopez as “silver-skinned alien spy Keeler\*” in the \*\*\*Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea \*\*\*episode “Savage Jungle.” \*Apparently no relation to Edith. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/902 "2020-02-23T09:28:22Z")
Back To School has Sally Kellarman, Terry Farrell, and Robert Picardo. ---
**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 24, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/903 "2020-02-24T07:06:15Z")
Kathie “Deela” Browne in 1964’s _ **Man’s Favorite Sport?** _ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/904 "2020-02-24T11:24:27Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Sensei is played by George Takei (Sulu). Takei also voiced Ricardio the Heart Guy in _Adventure Time_. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/905 "2020-02-24T11:29:31Z")
Leonard Nimoy in 1958 episode of _Highway Patrol_ **Blood Money** ---
**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 25, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/906 "2020-02-25T19:59:07Z")
Alyce and Rhae Andrece (Harry Mudd’s “Alices”) in the \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*episode “Nora Clavicle and the Ladies’ Crime Club.” Skip Homeier (“Dr Sevrin”/“Melakon”) in the _ **Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea** _ episode “Attack!” ---
**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 26, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/907 "2020-02-26T19:25:05Z")
Mitchell Ryan (“Kyle Riker”) in the _ **St Elsewhere** _ episode “Rites of Passage.” ---
**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 26, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/908 "2020-02-26T19:56:02Z")
Also in this episode are _ **DS9** _’s Norman “Vedek Fala” Parker and Bob “Uncredited Bajoran” Harks. ---
**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 26, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/909 "2020-02-26T20:10:16Z")
Charles “Morla” Dierkop as “Dustbag” in the \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*episode “Penguin’s Cleans Sweep.” Victor Lundlin, the “Klingon Lieutenant” in “Errand of Mercy,” as “Chief Standing Pat” in the \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*episodes “The Great Escape” and “The Great Train Robbery.” ---
**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 29, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/910 "2020-02-29T01:49:06Z")
Morgan Woodward, Dr. Van Gelder in\* Dagger of the Mind\* and Captain Ron Tracey in\* the Omega Glory\*, played “Second Killer” in the Wagon Train episode, _The Martin Onyx Story._ ---
**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 29, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/911 "2020-02-29T02:38:25Z")
Barry “Surak” Atwater in the final \*\*\*Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea \*\*\*episode “No Way Back.” Looks like it’ll be off \*Silver \*\*Screen \*for a while. So will \*\*\*Batman \*\*\*. ☹ ---
**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 29, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/912 "2020-02-29T02:47:24Z")
Atwater played US Gen. Benedict Arnold in a “Mr Pem” time-travel story. Nothing odd about that… :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [March 5, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/913 "2020-03-05T19:27:20Z")
Just saw the 1997 Jodie Foster sf drama _Contact_. Geoffrey Blake, who’d earlier appeared as a Trill initiate on _DS9_, plays a radio astronomer. > **[Geoffrey Blake](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Geoffrey_Blake)** > > Geoffrey Blake (born 20 August 1962; age 60) played Arjin in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episode "Playing God". Blake had worked with Terry Farrell before. Both were main cast members of the short-lived 1980s television series Paper... > ---
**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:** [March 6, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/914 "2020-03-06T20:03:55Z")
> [@LoneRhino](#): > > I haven’t read the entire thread so this may have already been mentioned. The Cheers episode “Never Love a Goalie: Part 2” has Brent Spiner and John Fleck (he played Silik on Enterprise). Sighting(s) confirmed! ---
**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:** [March 9, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/915 "2020-03-09T23:51:04Z")
John Abbott, Ayelborne in _Errand of Mercy_, was in the _Peter Gunn_ episode, _Pay Now, Die Later._ ---
**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:** [March 10, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/916 "2020-03-10T00:16:39Z")
William Schallert, Nilz Baris in _The Trouble With Tribbles_, plays a lackey in _Pay Now, Die Later._ ---
**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:** [March 12, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/917 "2020-03-12T19:14:53Z")
Diane “Lupaza” Salinger as “Valerie Ives” in the \*\*\*St \*\*\*\*\*\*Elsewhere \*\*\*episode “Handoff.” (She also played “Simone” in _ **Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure** _.) William Schallert also reprises his role as “Dr Olan Standley” in this episode. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/918 "2020-03-14T01:11:31Z")
Anthony Caruso, Bella Oxmyx in _A Piece of the Action_, in the \*Wagon Train \*Episode, _The Traitor._ This guy was everywhere in 1960s TV. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/919 "2020-03-15T23:53:52Z")
DeForest Kelley played Captain Anderson in the _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_ episode, _The Fear Makers_. He had about 45 seconds before his submarine imploded. ☹ ---
**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:** [March 17, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/920 "2020-03-17T18:41:46Z")
Robert “The Doctor” Picardo as “Eli Muzzy” in the \*\*\*St Elsewhere \*\*\*episode “Weigh in, Way Out.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=47)