# 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:** 51
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1001 "2020-08-30T14:12:45Z")
Btw, DeForest can be spotted several times in that trailer. You see part of the fight with Rory Calhoun. Rory beats the crap out of DeForest. Excellent cast. Rory Calhoun, John Russell,Lon Chaney, Arthur Hunnicutt, Gene Evans. All prominent actors in the 1950’s. They were older in this 1962 film. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1002 "2020-08-30T14:27:33Z")
I saw Scotty in “Sean of the Dead”. (No, he wasn’t a zombie. That’s just Mean. ) ---
**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 17, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1003 "2020-09-17T22:46:44Z")
Jon Lormer, of “The World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky”, “The Cage” and “Return of the Archons” playing Sam Bradford in the “Maverick” episode, “The Town That Wasn’t There”. ---
**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 18, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1004 "2020-09-18T01:15:14Z")
Richard Hale in the Maverick episode was also in “The Paradise Syndrome”. ---
**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 18, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1005 "2020-09-18T06:43:30Z")
I’ve seen so many _ **Trek** _ actors in the original _ **Mission: Impossible** _, I’ve given up tracking them. In just the last few weeks, I counted Arlene Martel, Lee Meriwether, Peter Mark Richman, Logan Ramsey, Barry Atwater, and (of course) Leonard Nimoy. Probably a few others as well. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1006 "2020-09-18T13:36:56Z")
This seems the best place to post this. Just found the old Hitchcock episode “Memo fro Purgatory” on YouTube. Have wanted to see this for years. Based on works by Harlan Ellison and featuring a young Walter Koenig. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmyg5_53g9c) ---
**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 18, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1007 "2020-09-18T14:09:14Z")
This is the episode of _ **Combat!** _ with Koenig’s first (uncredited) TV role, “Sentry.” His scene starts around the 6:35 mark. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nxdqd5Lr0GA/hqdefault.jpg "COMBAT! s.1 ep.12: "The Prisoner" (1962)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxdqd5Lr0GA) My God, how I loved this show from second through sixth grade! Every Tuesday night for five years, I was glued to the TV from 18:30 to 19:30 (and for most of that time, _ **McHale’s Navy** _ was on next). ---
**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 18, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1008 "2020-09-18T14:57:30Z")
These are the two episodes of _ **Combat!** _ with Leonard Nimoy. In the first, he’s “Baum” and appears just after the 11:54 mark. He speaks German around 16:10: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tPn2U54EfUg/hqdefault.jpg "Combat! S04E16 The Raider") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPn2U54EfUg) In the second, he’s “Neumann.” He first appears and speaks German just after 1:20: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b4PSh3thSx4/hqdefault.jpg "COMBAT! s.2 ep.6: "The Wounded Don't Cry" (1963)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4PSh3thSx4) ---
**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 21, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1009 "2020-09-21T14:49:26Z")
Two two-parter episodes of _ **Matlock** _ featuring future _Enterprise_ captains: one set in London with Bruce “Christopher Pike” Greenwood and one set in Washington with Scott “Jonathan Archer” Bakula. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1010 "2020-09-21T16:42:53Z")
Might have already been mentioned here, but I saw Grace Lee Whitney recently in an ep of “The Untouchables.” In this one, she was just a show girl, instead of a stripper. ---
**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 21, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1011 "2020-09-21T17:37:32Z")
Davis Roberts, “Dr Ozaba” (the black scientist) in “The Empath,” as “William Barton” (Robert Conrad’s intended victim) in the _ **M:I** _ episode “The Killer.” ---
**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 21, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1012 "2020-09-21T18:01:27Z")
Michael Ansara, Kang, in the Rawhide episode, “Incident of the Iron Horse”. He plays an Indian. He played Cochise in Broken Arrow, and he described Cochise as standing with his arms folded and saying noble things, or standing with his arms at his side saying noble things. The same here. ---
**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 23, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1013 "2020-09-23T15:06:22Z")
Nana “Major Kira” Visitor as murderer “Vanessa” in the _ **Matlock** _ episode “The Best Friend.” ---
**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, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1014 "2020-09-25T14:29:46Z")
Vincent Schiavelli, “The Peddler” in the _ **TNG** _ episode “The Arsenal of Freedom,” as “Julian” in the _ **Matlock** _ episode “The Gambler.” **FUN FACT:** This episode is set in Las Vegas, and the murder victim is a young Marg Helgenberger, late of _ **CSI: Las Vegas** _. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1015 "2020-10-16T18:09:40Z")
William Campbell as been mentioned a few times in this thread. He’s in Dementia 13, which is on TV now. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1016 "2020-10-16T20:28:09Z")
A few weeks back, DeForest Kelley was on the _Svengoolie_ airing of [Night of the Lepus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Lepus). It was. . . was. . . I don’t remember 'cause it was so bad, I fell asleep on the couch. Tripler Am I the only guy around here who watches _Svengoolie_? ---
**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 16, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1017 "2020-10-16T23:57:49Z")
You very well may be. I recall a truck with a speaker driving through the town, “Attention! A herd of killer rabbits is headed this way!” Nimoy, I bellieve, is an uncredited radio operator in “Them!” a film about giant ants in the same genre of film. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1018 "2020-10-17T00:55:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Nimoy, I bellieve, is an uncredited radio operator in “Them!” From IMDb: [Leonard Nimoy](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t61) … Army Sergeant in Information Center (uncredited) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1019 "2020-10-17T00:55:45Z")
Spotted Dick Miller (who did a DS9 two-parter) in “It Conquered the World”, an old fifties horror flick familiar to fans of Frank Zappa. ---
**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 17, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1020 "2020-10-17T02:19:00Z")
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