# 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:** 50
**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:** [July 18, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/981 "2020-07-18T00:17:16Z")
Theodore “Sergei Rozhenko” Bikel as “General Casimir Zipke” in the _ **M:I** _ episode “The Cardinal.” ---
**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:** [July 18, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/982 "2020-07-18T19:59:53Z")
I recently saw Harry Groener, who appeared in three different _ST_ roles over the years, in _Road to Perdition_ with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. Scroll down for pics here. > **[Harry Groener](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Harry_Groener)** > > Harry Groener (born 10 September 1951; age 71) is a German-born American actor who played three different roles on three different Star Trek series. He first played Tam Elbrun in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episode "Tin Man". This... ---
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/983 "2020-07-19T00:57:52Z")
Jon Lormer, Somers in Maverick, “Day of Reckoning” was in three Star Trek episodes. “The Cage”, “The Return of the Archons” and “For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky”. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/984 "2020-07-19T06:25:27Z")
Roger C Carmel, aka “Harry Mudd,” as “Merle” in the _ **Three’s Company** _ episode “Ralph’s Rival.” ---
**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:** [July 23, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/985 "2020-07-23T17:30:25Z")
John “Kor” Colicos and Barry “Surak” Atwater in the _ **M:I** _ episode “The Play.” Theodore “Sergei Rozhenko” Bikel and Samantha “Marie Picard” Eggar in the _ **Columbo** _ episode “Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Club.” (This episode also features 18-year-old pre-_ **Halloween** _ Jamie Lee Curtis in a bit role as a waitress.) Warren “Rojan” Stevens and Phillip “Col Green” Pine in the _ **M:I** _ episode “The Bargain.” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/986 "2020-07-23T18:39:57Z")
Bruce Mars is best remembered as Kirk’s annoying classmate at The Academy. I saw him in an episode of “The Lucy Show” where he had a mostly non-speaking part as a boxer. Lucy was trying to help her florist friend, a former boxer, come up with enough money to buy the business from his retiring boss, and here scheme was going to get him into shape to take on the local hotshot ‘Sonny’ (Bruce Mars), and the prize money would be enough for a down payment. I couldn’t find any ST connection with the actor playing the former boxer/current florist, some obscure guy named Don Rickles. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/987 "2020-07-26T00:22:07Z")
Forgive me for digressing from actors to writers. _Have Gun Will Travel: The Monster of Moon Ridge._ Paladin is hired to investigate the monster, particularly the disappearance for two weeks of a young woman brain damaged from a fever, with the mental age of a small child. Paladin is captured by the monster (a Himalayan black bear, the only available trained bear available, I presume) and chained in a cave lit with a torch. A witch attempts to frighten him. Paladin, of course, quotes McBeth to the witch. It proves to be a woman hiding and caring for her son, brain damaged by the same fever. The respective parents meet and all ends well. But again, I digress. Written by Gene Roddenberry, and reminiscent of TOS _Cat’s Paw_. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/988 "2020-07-26T00:34:05Z")
_Catspaw_ was written by Robert Bloch. A tease or compliment to Roddenberry? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/989 "2020-07-26T03:15:45Z")
Gary Lockwood, “LT CDR Gary Mitchell,” in _ **The Model Shop** _ (1969). ---
**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:** [July 27, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/990 "2020-07-27T00:24:27Z")
Theodore Marcuse, Korob of _Catspaw_ in _Have Gun Will Travel, The Lady_. Wikipedia says he won a silver star serving on a submarine in WWII. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/991 "2020-07-27T08:57:42Z")
I’m not sure if this has been previously covered, not sure how to search a thread for keywords. But Stargate: Atlantis had more than it’s fair share. Robert Picardo was the head of Atlantis Season 5 Connor Trinneer was head bad guy for about three seasons Colm Meaney was an early bad guy. And a few guest roles here and there for others I think… ---
**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:** [July 30, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/992 "2020-07-30T05:02:40Z")
Mariette “Zarabeth” Hartley as blackmailing accomplice “Veronica” in the _ **Columbo** _ episode “Try and Catch Me.” ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/993 "2020-08-13T07:16:12Z")
Joan “Edith Keeler” Collins, Jon “Multiple Roles” Lormer, and Logan “Proconsul” Ramsey in the _ **M:I** _ episode “Nicole.” ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/994 "2020-08-13T07:37:08Z")
Check out this _ **Sea Hunt** _ knockoff from 1960: George “Sulu” Takei, Stanley “Cyrano Jones” Adams, and Barbara “Captain’s Woman” Luna: > **[Assignment Underwater - video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mlb1i)** > > This was NTA's answer to Ziv's Sea Hunt series. Check out an impossibly young George Takai! DeForest Kelley was apparently in another episode (“An Affair in Tokyo”), but I can’t find a clip for it. ☹ ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/995 "2020-08-13T07:59:21Z")
A quick look at the _ **A:U** _ full cast list shows that John “Dr Boyce” Hoyt and James “Capt Styles” Sikking guest starred in different episodes as well. (“Old Man Dies” and “Anchor Man,” respectively.) ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/996 "2020-08-13T14:29:28Z")
Michael McKean (the evil clown from that _VGR_ episode) appeared in a recent rebroadcast of _Celebrity Jeopardy!_ from 2009. He won, beating Cheech Marin and Jane Curtin. ---
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Susan “Mara” Howard as a panelist on _ **Match Game '76** _. Lee “Losira” Meriwether was also a panelist a couple of weeks ago, but I don’t remember if it was on _ **MG '76** _ or '_ **78** _. ---
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Just saw a “Hogan’s Heroes” ep (Hogan’s Double Life) that featured John Hoyt and Malachi Throne as Nazis (Hoyt played “Dr. Boyce” in the first pilot, Throne played Commodore Mendez in “The Menagerie” which featured footage from that first pilot.) ---
**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:** [August 30, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/999 "2020-08-30T03:35:22Z")
Just saw _Air Force One_ again (still a great thriller), and thought the actor who played the aide to the Vice President looked very familiar, but couldn’t quite place him. A little Googling revealed he’s the same actor who played the half-Romulan guy in _TNG_ “The Drumhead.” He also, I now see, had a _VGR_ role. > **[Spencer Garrett](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Spencer_Garrett)** > > Spencer Garrett (born 19 September 1963; age 59) is an actor who portrayed Crewman Simon Tarses in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "The Drumhead". He filmed his scenes on Tuesday 19 February 1991 and between Friday 22... > **[Spencer Garrett, Dean Stockwell and Glenn Close](https://www.listal.com/viewimage/7582603)** > > Spencer Garrett, Dean Stockwell and Glenn Close ---
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I saw DeForest Kelley in Apache Uprising last week on Grit TV. Made a couple years before Star Trek. He played a psycho gunman that gets beat up in several fights. He reacts by drawing a gun and waving it around. The guy finally murders a man in cold blood. I cheered when the crazy character gets killed by the Indians. The character is constantly referred to as immature and short. I never noticed how short Deforest actually is. Next to Dhatner he looked tall. It was quite a colorful role for Deforest. Completely different from his calm doctor on Trek. DeForest gets a bottle shot out of his hand in the movie trailer. It’s a good movie. I enjoyed it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/q3Z802fMHUo/hqdefault.jpg "Apache Uprising - Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Z802fMHUo) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=51)