# 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:** 58
**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:** [April 2, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1141 "2021-04-02T17:13:03Z")
Barry “Surak” Atwater as “Lester Workman” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode(s) “The Grandstand Play.” ---
**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:** [April 5, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1142 "2021-04-05T17:27:10Z")
France “Elaan” Nuyen, Jeff “Plasus” Corey, and Bill “McCoy Sr” Quinn in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Highest Castle, Deepest Grave.” ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1143 "2021-04-05T17:28:22Z")
Damn is Hawaii Five-O actually just a extended Star Trek holodeck espisode? ---
**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:** [April 5, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1144 "2021-04-05T17:32:29Z")
“Book 'im, Spock!” ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1145 "2021-04-05T17:33:37Z")
There is also Colm Meanie who has possibly had (with the exception of Patrick Stewart) the most extensive post-Trek career. Playing both former IRA commander Martin McGuinness: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/18ZN_lZvL7A/maxresdefault.jpg "The Journey - Official Trailer I HD I IFC Films") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZN_lZvL7A) and England football manager Don Revie: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/G_QiKT-6hlo/hqdefault.jpg "The Damned United Trailer HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_QiKT-6hlo) ---
**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:** [April 5, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1146 "2021-04-05T17:45:06Z")
My favorite scene in _ **The Committments:** _ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ViBnWEF7P3c/hqdefault.jpg "He picked up Gina, Gina's me trumpet, and he puked right into her - The Commitments") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViBnWEF7P3c) I love the look on Meany’s face: “_He_ said _ **that** _?!?” ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1147 "2021-04-09T16:51:04Z")
A crusty Captain Bob Roberts gets [temporary command of Station 51](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0570686/) (“Emergency!”), doesn’t like the Paramedics poking needles in patients, but eventually gets won over by the end of the show. Moves on eventually to Delta Rana IV and just as crusty, giving the Next Generation Enterprise crew a mystery in [The Survivors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Survivors_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)). I saw the latter show recently and said “Hey! The crusty old Captain!” [**John Anderson**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anderson_(actor)) was a very busy actor on stage, movies, and television, and could probably stick your hand in the film bucket of his era and pull out a show he was in. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1148 "2021-04-09T23:15:19Z")
“Spock-o.” ---
**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:** [April 10, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1149 "2021-04-10T02:19:46Z")
I would advise youse to keep dialing, Oxmyx. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1150 "2021-04-10T12:48:58Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Bruce Mars (“Finnegan” et al.) as \*Seaview \*guard “Hawkins” in the _ **Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea** _ episode “The Abominable Snowman.” Saw him in a Bonanza ep. awhile back too. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1151 "2021-04-15T18:06:50Z")
Michael “Dr Corby” Strong as “Grayson” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Air Cargo–Dial for Murder.” Lou “Lokai” Antonio as “David Harper” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “The Burning Ice.” ---
**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:** [April 15, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1152 "2021-04-15T23:07:27Z")
Following the recent passing of James Gunn I decided to do a full watch of the short-lived series “The Immortal”, based on one of his works. For a show aired in 69-70 you’d expect a lot of Trek “alumni”. One episode (Sylvia) featured three: David Brian (John Gill), Glenn Corbett (Zephram Cochrane), and Sherry Jackson (Andrea). Another had two: Michael Strong (Roger Corby) and Marj Dusay (Brain and brain). Stuntman/Actor Frank Orsatti was in this one as well. Lee Meriweather(Losira) and Harry Townes (Archons) each did separate episodes. (As an aside, Townes also did episodes of The Fugitive, The Invaders, and The Incredible Hulk, giving him a “man on the run” quadfecta.) The series also had a couple of future Trek actors: Rosemary Forsythe and an impossibly young Ed Begley Jr. as “The gas station attendant”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1153 "2021-04-16T00:55:00Z")
Michael Strong was in _Patton_ as well. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1154 "2021-04-16T01:18:06Z")
Before I started watching _ **Five-O** _ this time around, I think the biggest _ **Trek** _ crossover I saw was in reruns of _ **Mission: Impossible** _.(all seven seasons). This was natural, since both _ **TOS** _ and _ **M:I** _ were produced by Desilu/Paramount on adjacent sound stages. Back in 1968, Hawaii had very few production facilities, and the _ **Five-O** _ crew started basically from scratch. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1155 "2021-04-16T14:24:54Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > There is also Colm Meanie who has possibly had (with the exception of Patrick Stewart) the most extensive post-Trek career… > [@terentii](#): > > …I love the look on Meany’s face… Nitpick: it’s “Meaney.” ---
**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:** [April 16, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1156 "2021-04-16T14:36:10Z")
Correction noted! BTW, I saw _ **The Commitments** _ immediately after it came out. I would swear Meaney did say “_He_ said _that_?” with regard to Elvis, but the line is not in that clip. Was it cut, or am I misremembering? ---
**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:** [April 17, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1157 "2021-04-17T00:59:40Z")
Ken Lynch, the miner in TOS “The Devil in the Dark” as Gangster “Shoemaker” in Peter Gunn, “Hot Money”. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1158 "2021-04-24T02:01:26Z")
Stanley Adams, Cyrano Jones in “The Trouble With Tribbles” in Peter Gunn, “Sing a Song of Murder”. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1159 "2021-04-24T07:02:02Z")
Malachi “Commodore Mendez” Throne as “Gambling Czar Bonamo” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Bait Once, Bait Twice.” ---
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William Shatner in “The Tenth Level”. [The Tenth Level (1976) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcWqNO_AM18) Based on the Milgrim experiments. Also features Stephen Macht (General Krim) from the DS9 3-parter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=59)