# 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:** 59
**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 30, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1161 "2021-04-30T17:27:11Z")
Jason “Rael” Evers and Jay “Petri” Robinson in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Cloth of Gold.” ---
**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:** [May 2, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1162 "2021-05-02T21:47:42Z")
Lee Meriweather, a regular on “The Time Tunnel” as Losira in the TOS episode, “That Which Survives”. A time tunnel journey into the future has hallways that resemble the interior of a Romulan ship in “The Enterprise Incident”. Both series were filming at the same time; I wonder if they shared stages and props. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1163 "2021-05-03T16:16:28Z")
It’s possible, I suppose. IIRC, _ **TT** _ was filmed at 20th Century Fox, but there weren’t that many stories set in the future. Desilu/Paramount, on the other hand, did a lot of renting out to different production companies, so _ **TT** _ might have used one of their _ **ST** _ sets for that particular episode. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1164 "2021-05-03T19:36:44Z")
Just saw the great 1993 Harrison Ford/Tommy Lee Jones chase thriller _The Fugitive_, and spotted several _ST_ alums in it. > **[Andreas Katsulas](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Andreas_Katsulas)** > > Missouri-born actor Andreas Katsulas (18 May 1946 – 13 February 2006; age 59) is best known to Star Trek fans for playing the recurring character of Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also played Vissian Captain Drennik... > **[Richard Riehle](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Riehle)** > > Richard Riehle (born 12 May 1948; age 74) is a prolific character actor from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, who has appeared in three Star Trek spin-offs, as well as over 50 other television series and about twice as many films. He first appeared as... > **[Danny Goldring](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Danny_Goldring)** > > Danny Goldring (31 May 1946 – 2 December 2022; age 76) was a stage, television, and film actor who made guest appearances in three of the Star Trek spin-off series. He appeared in a total of six episodes, playing five different characters. His... ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1165 "2021-05-03T20:09:26Z")
That is the only episode I’ve seen from the future. I don’t recall how often I watched it as a child. Thanks, terentii. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1166 "2021-05-03T21:41:06Z")
Just saw Brian George–Babu Bhatt on Seinfeld–playing Julian Bashir’s father on DS9. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1167 "2021-05-07T17:22:37Z")
Michael “Kang” Ansara without his toupee as “Mob Boss Piro Manoa” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Death Is a Company Policy,” the first of the fifth season and without Zulu as “Kono.” ---
**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:** [May 11, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1168 "2021-05-11T00:31:09Z")
Anthony Caruso, Bella Oxmyx in “A Piece of the Action” in Peter Gunn, “The Coffin” as "the scar-faced Ramon DeCara " a Mexican bad guy. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1169 "2021-05-11T00:32:05Z")
I am being redundant, as though Anthony Caruso would play a character who was not a bad guy. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2021, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1170 "2021-05-11T03:50:46Z")
Ricardo “Khan” Montalban and Diana “Dr Pulaski” Muldaur as race car enthusiast “Alex Pareno” and his fiancee “Angela” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Death Wish on Tantalus Mountain.” This has to be the worst episode ever of a series that had plenty of stinkers. 🤮 ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1171 "2021-05-12T01:31:25Z")
Captain Kirk himself, bare-chested and sporting a '70s toupee and Texas accent, in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “You Don’t Have to Kill to Get Rich … But It Helps.” He’s a PI from the mainland who tries to blackmail blackmailers. This one takes the cake! [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MtP1z0ALI2Q/hqdefault.jpg "Shatner Five-0") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtP1z0ALI2Q) ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1172 "2021-05-12T01:54:52Z")
That’s pretty good. terenti, but I’ll bet that .38 in the last bit was on “stun”. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1173 "2021-05-12T02:06:32Z")
“Ah … ooooown … yew!” 🤣 ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1174 "2021-05-12T14:52:36Z")
Just finished a rewatch on the old SF series “Time Trax”. The premise was that a number of fugitives escaped justice by retreating 200 years into the past, to our present, with the help of an evil scientist. Among those were Jerry Hardin, Edward Albert, Eric Pierpoint, John DeLancie, Cliff DeYoung, and John Schuck. Other Trek actors appearing in the series were Henry Darrow, Ronnie Cox, Bernie Casey, Jeri Ryan, and Kerrie Keane. (Keane and Pierpoint alson headlined the “Mr. and Mrs Fugitive” series “Hot Pursuit”.) The lead character was tasked with tracking down those fugitives and returning them to the future. As an aside it occurred to me that an episode of that series could have had a contemporary FBI agent, say, connect the disappearances of these people from the present to the activities of the protagonist. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1175 "2021-05-14T15:56:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Captain Kirk himself, bare-chested and sporting a '70s toupee and Texas accent, in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “You Don’t Have to Kill to Get Rich … But It Helps.” He’s a PI from the mainland who tries to blackmail blackmailers. This one takes the cake!.. That first scene was like the setup for _Hawaii Porn-O_. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1176 "2021-05-14T16:04:11Z")
“That’s sooooo helpful!” 😌 ---
**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:** [May 14, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1177 "2021-05-14T17:01:16Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “Ah … ooooown … yew!” I believe the proper Kirkian accent is, “I…ownyou!” ---
**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:** [May 17, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1178 "2021-05-17T01:38:14Z")
Kevin Lynch, the head miner in “Devil in the Dark”, as Marshall Guy Lamport in the Have Gun Will Travel episode, “The Marshall’s Boy”. I believe he was in every western TV series ever made. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1179 "2021-05-17T17:38:08Z")
I was a little surprised to see Teri Garr as Gene Hackman’s girlfriend in _The Conversation_, a few years after her _ST:TOS_ appearance and a few years before _CE3K_. I’d forgotten she was in that. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1180 "2021-05-20T18:52:08Z")
The 1991 film “The Rocketeer” features 4 TNG alumni. Billy Campbell (Okana) as the star, Paul Sorvino (Worf’s human brother), Ed Lauter (Commander Albert) and _Lost’s_ Terry O’Quinn (Admiral Pressman) as, get this, Howard Hughes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=60)