# 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:** 54
**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:** [December 23, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1061 "2020-12-23T01:32:25Z")
John Fiedler, Heingist in Wolf in the Fold, as a department store manager in the Twilight Zone, “Night of the Meek”. He was also a lawyer in the original “True Grit”. ---
**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 23, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1062 "2020-12-23T05:08:49Z")
Just watched the new Aaron Sorkin courtroom drama _The Trial of the Chicago 7_, which is pretty good, and features three _ST_ alums - playing a pacifist defendant, a cranky judge and the Attorney General, respectively. > **[John Carroll Lynch](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_Carroll_Lynch)** > > John Carroll Lynch (born 1 August 1963; age 59) is the American actor who played Gerald Moss in the Star Trek: Voyager fifth season episode "11:59". He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Drew Carey's cross-dressing brother, Steve, in the... > **[Frank Langella](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Frank_Langella)** > > Frank Langella (born 1 January 1938; age 84) is the Tony Award-winning American actor who played Jaro Essa in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episodes "The Homecoming", "The Circle" and "The Siege". Langella took the role because his... > **[John Doman](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_Doman)** > > John Doman (born 9 January 1945; age 77) is an American actor who played Lenaris Holem in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine third season episode "Shakaar". This was his first guest appearance on an episodic television series. He later went on to star as... ---
**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:** [December 23, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1063 "2020-12-23T17:30:35Z")
I saw a link to the video clip somewhere. Shatner was drinking milk, playing Archie. ---
**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 25, 2020, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1064 "2020-12-25T05:43:08Z")
Yes, at 3:04 here: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9_AoebAAig4/hqdefault.jpg "Nero Wolfe Unsold Pilot from 1959 starring William Shatner") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_AoebAAig4) ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1065 "2020-12-25T17:02:44Z")
**Meg Wyllie** , a rather busy actor ([IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943816/) has a long list from 1952 to 1995), but I spotted her in one of four Perry Mason episodes she was in, playing a soft-spoken elderly nurse in the Case of the Stand-In Sister. Don’t recognize her in Star Trek? She played one of [The Keepers](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Meg_Wyllie), the very first villain in the pilot episode “The Cage”. The hair style is different, but the face is the same. ---
**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 25, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1066 "2020-12-25T17:24:59Z")
Bruce “Lt Kevin Riley” Hyde as a dept store floorwalker in _ **The Beverly Hillbillies** _ episode “The Christmas Present.” This episode is from 1966, so it’s in color. After watching the series in B&W for so long, the colors are overwhelming! ---
**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 30, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1067 "2020-12-30T23:23:53Z")
Phillip Pine, aka “genocidal Col. Green,” as “Tyler Skaggs” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Full Fathom Five.” (1968) ---
**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:** [December 31, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1068 "2020-12-31T00:19:05Z")
Was he a bad guy? He makes an excellent villain. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1069 "2020-12-31T00:20:52Z")
He played a second murder as well. A talk show host modeled on the Limbaugh ilk. ---
**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 31, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1070 "2020-12-31T00:35:33Z")
Actually, no. He was a lawyer trying to trace a missing heiress (one of the murdered women). The murderer was Kevin McCarthy. For some reason, Pine is not even mentioned on this webpage, even though he had a fairly prominent role in the episode: > **[Full Fathom Five](https://hawaiifiveo.fandom.com/wiki/Full_Fathom_Five)** > > McGarrett must stop a pair of murderous con artists Missing women in Hawaii are being murdered The teaser shows a woman having a drink with a couple at sea...she drops dead and her body is buried at sea. A lawyer comes to McGarrett trying to trace a... ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1071 "2021-01-01T22:42:45Z")
**Arthur Batanides** , the unfortunate Starfleet officer/geologist D’Amato in the Star Trek episode “That Which Survives”, in Perry Mason The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe. (Yeah, I’m watching too much Perry Mason!) I recognized him in his eyebrows. In the same show was another Star Trek actor, a two-bit low-life played by a very young **Leonard Nimoy**. ---
**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 2, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1072 "2021-01-02T00:11:48Z")
Clint “Belok” Howard as “Mullen the Janitor” in the _ **Married … with Children** _ episode “And Bingo Was Her Game-O.” (1995) ---
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1073 "2021-01-02T01:42:06Z")
“recognized him in his eyebrows.” That must be the most uncomplimentary way of referencing an actor. 🙂 ---
**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 2, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1074 "2021-01-02T07:45:38Z")
Dan Butler, “Sleth” in _ **ST: Voyager,** _ as “Dr Scott” in the _ **Monk** _ episode “Mr Monk goes to the Hospital.” ---
**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:** [January 2, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1075 "2021-01-02T20:33:39Z")
William O. Campbell, who played the Outrageous Okana in the TNG episode of the same name, also played serial killer Ted Bundy in The Stranger Beside Me. (2003 made for TV movie) ---
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Marj “What is ‘Brain’?!?” Dusay as “US Government Agent Andrea Claire Dupre” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Twenty-Four Karat Kill.” (1968) ---
**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:** [January 5, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1077 "2021-01-05T02:41:57Z")
Danno! Danno! What is Danno?!?! ---
**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 6, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1078 "2021-01-06T18:21:11Z")
Sandra “Whacko Dr Janice Lester” Smith as “Jewel Thief Accomplice Valerie Michaels” in the “No Blue Skies” episode of _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ (1968). ---
**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:** [January 9, 2021, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1079 "2021-01-09T00:16:08Z")
Theo(dore) Marcuse, Korob in Cat’s Paw, as Ahben Unesku in Peter Gunn, “The Chinese Hangman”. Poor guy was surely type cast as a villian. ---
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Gary Lockwood (“LCDR Gary Mitchell”) in the Elvis vehicle _ **It Happened at the World’s Fair** _ (1963). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=55)