# 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:** 53
**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:** [December 15, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1041 "2020-12-15T23:13:58Z")
Armin “Quark” Shimerman as “Mr Lovejoy” in the _ **Married … with Children** _ episode “Buck the Stud.” ---
**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:** [December 16, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1042 "2020-12-16T07:48:35Z")
Sharon Lawrence (“Amelia Earhart” on _ **ST: Voyager** _) as “Linda Fusco” in the _ **Monk** _ episode “Mr Monk, Private Eye.” ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1043 "2020-12-16T07:56:12Z")
Jonathan Franks plays a pedo in an episode of Criminal Minds. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1044 "2020-12-16T15:07:32Z")
Really? When was he on _Star Trek_?: [Jonathan Franks - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Franks) ---
**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:** [December 16, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1045 "2020-12-16T16:33:36Z")
James “Zefram Cochrane” Cromwell as “Judge Raymond Price” in the _ **Matlock** _ episode “Nowhere to Turn.” ---
**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:** [December 16, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1046 "2020-12-16T16:41:10Z")
Also in this episode is Earl Boen, the “Voice of Nagilum” in _ **TNG** _, as “Judge George Clayton.”. He’s better known as “The Eulogist” on _ **Seinfeld** _ and “Dr Silberman,” the psychiatrist in the _ **Terminator** _ 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:** [December 16, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1047 "2020-12-16T18:43:12Z")
William “Commodore Decker” Windom (again!) as corrupted boxing promoter “Paul Mitchell” in the **M:I** episode “The Fighter.” ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1048 "2020-12-17T05:42:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > James “Zefram Cochrane” Cromwell as “Judge Raymond Price” in the _ **Matlock** _ episode “Nowhere to Turn.” Also as imperious tycoon William Randolph Hearst in _RKO 281_, about the making of _Citizen Kane_. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1049 "2020-12-17T18:09:28Z")
Pamelyn Ferdin (“Mary” in _ **TOS** _’s “And the Children Shall Lead”) as “Molly Mullin” in the _ **Green Acres** _ episode “Instant Family.” ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1050 "2020-12-18T14:44:31Z")
Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan) plays Mother Abigail in the new adaption of Stephen King’s _The Stand_. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1051 "2020-12-19T19:39:12Z")
Bruce French (four _ST_ appearances) plays a Medicare investigator in an episode of _House_ which my wife just watched. Scroll down for pics here: > **[Bruce French](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bruce_French)** > > Bruce French (born 4 July 1945; age 77) is a veteran actor who has appeared in three different Star Trek series as well as Star Trek: Insurrection. Hailing from Reinbeck, Iowa, French is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where he majored in... ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1052 "2020-12-19T21:48:41Z")
Probably already been mentioned, but I remember seeing Shatner in an episode of The Fugitive. I think he was playing a deranged killer. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1053 "2020-12-19T22:15:39Z")
What, again?!? 😮 ---
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A former cop, no less. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1055 "2020-12-22T15:14:49Z")
He played the bad guy in a movie adaptation of _The Hound of the Baskervilles_ back in the day. Did pretty well in the role, too, as I remember. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1056 "2020-12-22T15:53:57Z")
This thread is so long that it may have been mentioned before without my being able to find it, but recently on YouTube I ran across an unsold pilot episode for a proposed _Nero Wolfe_ TV series from 1959, with Shatner as Archie Goodwin, and Austrian actor Kurt Kasznar as Wolfe. ---
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Shatner also played a murderer in an episode of Columbo. He was an actor who played a TV detective named “Lieutenant Lucerne.” His outfits defy description. Peak 70s is all I will say. Columbo would needle him by saying “Ah, that’s what you and I might think, but what would Lieutenant Lucerne have to say?” ---
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Shatner played Mark Twain in one of the episodes of _Murdoch Mysteries_ we watched the other day. ---
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I’ve got to see that! ---
**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:** [December 23, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1060 "2020-12-23T01:11:43Z")
Shatner played a psycho bank robber and murderer in a syndicated Canadian cop show called _ **The Professionals** _ back in the '70s. He was also the murderer in another episode of _ **Columbo** _, “Butterfly in Shades of Grey” (1994) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=54)