# 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:** 57
**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, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1121 "2021-03-12T18:46:13Z")
Alfred “Dr Crater” Ryder as “Mob Boss Harry Quon” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “The Late John Louisiana.” ---
**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 19, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1122 "2021-03-19T17:05:56Z")
I couldn’t spot her face, but I did spot her name, when I saw Roxann Dawson’s (B’Elanna Torres, _ST:VGR_) directing credit on a 2017 episode of _House of Cards_. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1123 "2021-03-22T22:02:03Z")
Watching a DS9 episode with Kenneth Mars (The Producers, Young Frankenstein), as a village elder. I suppose that’s in the opposite direction as the OP though. ---
**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 23, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1124 "2021-03-23T01:55:30Z")
No, not at all. Other roles, before, after, during, all count. Say, Sulu in “The Green Berets”. Thanks! ---
**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 23, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1125 "2021-03-23T17:02:02Z")
Just spotted Ron Canada, who has three _ST_ credits, as a Federal judge and possible SCOTUS nominee in _House of Cards_. > **[Ron Canada](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ron_Canada)** > > Ron Canada (born 3 May 1949; age 73) is an actor who appeared as Martin Benbeck in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "The Masterpiece Society", Ch'Pok in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fourth season episode "Rules of... ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1126 "2021-03-23T17:32:26Z")
A non-bald Patrick Stewart in I, Claudius: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Meq-lylQGFk/hqdefault.jpg "Patrick Stewart ... with Hair?!?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meq-lylQGFk) Though distressingly the original airing of TNG (1987-1994) is now _way_ longer ago than I, Claudius(1976) was when TNG aired, which makes zero sense. Damn linear time in this universe! (though I only watched TNG when it aired on terrestrial TV in the UK, which wasn’t until 1996) ---
**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 23, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1127 "2021-03-23T18:14:28Z")
Logan “Proconsul” Ramsey participates in a jewel exchange heist in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Ten Thousand Diamonds and a Heart.” ---
**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 23, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1128 "2021-03-23T21:54:37Z")
You guys have a problem with the colonies, or what? ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1129 "2021-03-23T22:02:28Z")
Nope, its Rupert Murdoch’s fault. He spent a lot of money pushing Sky Satellite TV in the UK, and so among other things all the Fox output (which he owned of course, including the Simpsons, which I didn’t see until _well_ into the mid 90s) and tons of other US TV was the reserve of Sky subscribers for ages. Humble proles like my family (and pretty much everyone I knew, though I actually had a solidly upper-middle class upbringing) had to wait until it ended up on regularly telly most of a decade later. Premier league football was also the result of this period, Sky poured tons of cash into it, causing the Premier League to break away from the old first division, ushering the modern era with stupid money on salaries and transfer fees (prior to that football players in the UK earned a good, but not a millionaire salary) ---
**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 24, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1130 "2021-03-24T01:08:05Z")
Do I understand that there is a single television network in Britain? ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1131 "2021-03-24T01:20:55Z")
There was for a long time (before my day). When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s there were four terrestrial (as in over the air via an aerial, is that term used in the US?) channels. Two BBC (publicly run, no commericals) channels, two commercial channels. That was all we had (and almost everyone I knew, execpt for one or two of the more well off families I knew who could afford satellite). In the late 80s and early 90s there was a lot of competition for new satellite customers (but as kid that was like the competition between Lamborghini and Ferrari, as we were never going to get either one). As tends to be the case in the modern economy, the ended up consolidating after various mergers and bankruptcies into just one Sky, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s multinational (and so same ownership as Fox in the US) ---
**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 24, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1132 "2021-03-24T01:45:34Z")
Thanks, griffin1977. US term is “over the air” or “on air”. Our air channels were transfered to digital, and I’ve never been able to receive them in the homes I’ve lived in. Most people here use cable, which is far too expensive for my taste, $200 a month. C Band (large antenna) satellite was a good thing, I enjoyed it immensley, so Motorola shut it down because not enough of us gave them money. The 5 Gig wireless was given the C band frequency by the Federal Communications Commision, damn 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:** [March 24, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1133 "2021-03-24T02:45:25Z")
I remember hearing “aerial” back in the 1950s, but I think it’s long been superseded by “antenna,” unless this is just a regional thing (I grew up in Minnesota). My dad was at that time working as a TV repairman (he had served in the US Army Signal Corps in WWII.) The first time I came to Canada for a six-month stay was in 2008–2009. TV in the province of Ontario (maybe the entire country; I don’t remember) was just about to go digital. People everywhere were leaving their perfectly good analog sets out on the curb to be collected as trash. (They could have kept working with adapters.) The three places I’ve rented since used mostly cable. One of my landladies had satellite service for a while but switched back to cable because there were too many interruptions. I had satellite service for a while in Moscow (the signal was relayed by the TV tower in Ostankino). I gave it up because the receiver on the roof of my high-rise kept getting stolen. ---
**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 24, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1134 "2021-03-24T17:13:40Z")
John de Lancie (“Q”) as “Plastic Surgeon Albert Levinson” in the _ **Matlock** _ episode “The Haunted.” John Anderson ("‘Survivor’ Kevin Uxbridge") as “Gen Earl Rigney” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “To Kill Or Be Killed.” ---
**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 25, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1135 "2021-03-25T17:46:01Z")
Roger C Carmel (“Harry Mudd”) and Sabrina Scharf (“Miramanee”) as “Misha the Russian Bear” and “Nicole Fleming” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode(s) “FOB Honolulu.” ---
**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 28, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1136 "2021-03-28T20:50:25Z")
Quite a few different actors with _ST_ credits in the Jim Carrey lawyer comedy _Liar Liar_, which I saw last night. > **[Mitchell Ryan](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mitchell_Ryan)** > > Mitchell Ryan (11 January 1934 – 4 March 2022; age 88) was the actor from Louisville, Kentucky, USA who portrayed Kyle Riker in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "The Icarus Factor". Earlier, he was a contender for the role of... > **[Anne Haney](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Anne_Haney)** > > Anne Haney (4 March 1934 – 26 May 2001; age 67) was the actress who portrayed the role of Rishon Uxbridge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episode "The Survivors" and Els Renora in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode... > **[Amanda Carlin](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Amanda_Carlin)** > > Amanda Carlin (born 12 December 1957; age 65) is an actress who played Kobb in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episodes "The Maquis, Part I" and "The Maquis, Part II". She has appeared in almost all of the major television series of the... > **[Eric Pierpoint](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eric_Pierpoint)** > > Eric Pierpoint (born 18 November 1950; age 71) is an actor and author who had guest roles in the four Star Trek spin-off television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He is... > **[Chip Mayer](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Chip_Mayer)** > > Christopher "Chip" Mayer (21 February 1954 – 23 July 2011; age 57) is the actor who appeared as Ryan the holographic guard in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seventh season episode "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang". Mayer was born in New York, New York, USA.... > **[Benjamin Brown](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Benjamin_Brown)** > > Benjamin Brown (born 1968; age ~54) played Kagan in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sixth season episode "Inquisition". Brown has appeared in many other popular television series such as Frasier, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Drew Carey Show,... > **[Randy Oglesby](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Randy_Oglesby)** > > Thomas Randell Oglesby (born September 1949; age 73), often credited as Randy Oglesby, is an actor who has portrayed seven different Star Trek characters, most notably Degra on Star Trek: Enterprise. He is one of only five actors to do so, the others... > **[James W. Jansen](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/James_W._Jansen)** > > James W. Jansen (born 27 July 1945; age 77), sometimes credited as Jim Jansen, appeared as Faren Kag in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "The Storyteller" and Lucsly in the fifth season episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". Jansen... [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ernest\_Perry,\_Jr](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ernest_Perry,_Jr). ---
**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:** [March 29, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1137 "2021-03-29T13:27:06Z")
This one showed up in my YouTube feed. Johnathan Frakes younger than you’ve ever seen him in “The White Shadow”. [Jonathan Frakes in "The White Shadow" (1979) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RFLGQaX0w) ---
**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 29, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1138 "2021-03-29T17:21:23Z")
Arthur “Lt D’Amato” Batanides and Phillip “Col Green” Pine as “Malanesian Consul” and “Bajano” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “The Gunrunner.” ---
**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 29, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1139 "2021-03-29T17:27:00Z")
Also in this episode is George Murdock, aka “Adm JP Hanson” (_ **TNG** _) and “God” (_ **ST V** _). ---
**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 29, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1140 "2021-03-29T17:33:05Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > This one showed up in my YouTube feed. Johnathan Frakes younger than you’ve ever seen him in “The White Shadow”. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X\_RFLGQaX0w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_RFLGQaX0w) Great find! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=58)