# Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982
**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
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/101 "2017-08-29T18:44:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Marina Sirtis (Lt. Troi) has a recurring role on _NCIS_.
She was also in a Sherlock Holmes episode, _The Six Napoleons_, as an Italian mobster’s daughter.
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/102 "2017-08-29T19:07:17Z")
Decades ago, I saw young James Doohan (with fake Scottish accent) on the sitcom “Hazel.”
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/103 "2017-08-29T19:37:04Z")
Did James Doohan do anything post Trek besides play Scotty on a STNG episode, and the comic role where he satirized Scotty?
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/104 "2017-08-29T19:45:17Z")
He worked pretty steadily up until his health went south. There’s a lot of Trek and Trek parody in there, but plenty of work, even aside from that.
Hilariously, one of his characters was named [Chief O’Brien](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104135/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_19).
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/105 "2017-08-29T19:57:24Z")
That’s good, I heard or read him say that he would go in for casting, a secretary would say, “Hello, Scotty!” and he would be shown the door.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/106 "2017-08-29T20:05:50Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> There are. A quick look at IMDB turns up Julie Parrish (“Miss Piper”), Malachi Throne (“Commodore Mendez”), Michael Ansara \*\*and \*\*Susan Howard (“Kang and Mara”), Bibi Besch (“Dr Marcus”), Sandra Smith (batshit-crazy “Dr Lester”), Richard Herd (“Admiral Paris”), Rene Auberjonois (“Odo”), Kate Woodville (“Natira”), Sharon Acker (“Odonna”), John Anderson (“Kevin Uxbridge” in “The Survivors” on _ **TNG** _), Paul Carr (“Lt Kelso”), Charles Napier (space hippie “Adam”). And that’s only about halfway down the list!
I was trying to go from memory. Should have remembered Sandra Smith, though. Saw her on Rockford and had one of those “where have I seen her before” moments. I think that and Trek are the only two times I’ve seen her in anything.
But as I said, everybody was in everything back then.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/107 "2017-08-29T20:23:26Z")
Sandra Smith was in _Naked City_ at 18. I thought I’d watched all of them.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/108 "2017-08-29T23:03:00Z")
This is fun! In the late '60s and early '70s, I used to drive my mother crazy by saying “Hey, he/she was on _ **Star Trek** _!” whenever I watched television. And yes, I’m going by memory. I only resorted to IMBD to get some background information.
George Takei was in a first-season episode of _ **Mission: Impossible** _ as a bacteriologist/biochemist. The IMF infiltrated a school for spies in order to prevent a biological attack on the United States (George was one of the good guys).
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/109 "2017-08-29T23:09:18Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> LeVar Burton (minus visor) was helping to construct the Statue of Liberty and fell to his death in the TVM “Liberty.”
LeVar “Kunta Kinte” Burton. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/110 "2017-08-29T23:18:19Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> I only resorted to IMBD to get some background information.
Is there a way to search IMDb for actors who appeared in two different franchises, or at least two different series? Two of the biggest franchises in TV history (perhaps the two biggest) are _Star Trek_ and _Law & Order_, but off the top of my head I can only think of two actors that were in both.
Carolyn McCormick and Billy Campbell.There have to be more.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/111 "2017-08-29T23:24:28Z")
Before she was Ilia in _ **ST:TMP** _, Persis Khambatta was in **this movie** opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier:
> **[The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073901/)**
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> The Wilby Conspiracy: Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee. A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.
Looking over her career at Memory Alpha, I see she was in lots of other productions with \*\*\*Trek \*\*\*alumni:
> **[Persis Khambatta](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Persis_Khambatta)**
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> Persis Khambatta (2 October 1948 – 18 August 1998; age 49) was an Indian model and actress who played Lieutenant Ilia (and the Ilia probe) in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Khambatta was born in Mumbai, India in a middle-class Parsi family. At age...
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/112 "2017-08-29T23:28:34Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Is there a way to search IMDb for actors who appeared in two different franchises, or at least two different series? Two of the biggest franchises in TV history (perhaps the two biggest) are _Star Trek_ and _Law & Order_, but off the top of my head I can only think of two actors that were in both.
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> Carolyn McCormick and Billy Campbell.There have to be more.
You could copy their cast lists and run them through the Compare function in Microsoft Word. (That might actually work!) Otherwise, I guess you’d just have to scroll through them name by name, or use the IMBD Search function if you already have a name.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/113 "2017-08-29T23:41:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Is there a way to search IMDb for actors who appeared in two different franchises, or at least two different series? Two of the biggest franchises in TV history (perhaps the two biggest) are _Star Trek_ and _Law & Order_, but off the top of my head I can only think of two actors that were in both.
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> Carolyn McCormick and Billy Campbell.There have to be more.
I can tell you from memory that Malachi Throne did both.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/114 "2017-08-29T23:45:51Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> George Takei was in a first-season episode of _ **Mission: Impossible** _ as a bacteriologist/biochemist. The IMF infiltrated a school for spies in order to prevent a biological attack on the United States (George was one of the good guys).
In that same episode, I believe, they’re walking down a corridor in the underground lab and it’s an Enterprise corridor. (ST and M:I both filmed by Paramount.)
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/115 "2017-08-29T23:46:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Marina Sirtis (Lt. Troi) has a recurring role on _NCIS_.
She also showed everything in a movie titled _ **The Wicked Lady** _ (1983). I’ve yet to see this, but I do have some stills from it. And yes, her physical attributes are delightful! 🆒 :o
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/116 "2017-08-29T23:52:25Z")
> [@E-DUB](#):
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> In that same episode, I believe, they’re walking down a corridor in the underground lab and it’s an Enterprise corridor. (ST and M:I both filmed by Paramount.)
Back then, Desilu. 🆒
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/117 "2017-08-30T00:52:43Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> There are. A quick look at IMDB turns up Julie Parrish (“Miss Piper”), Malachi Throne (“Commodore Mendez”), Michael Ansara \*\*and \*\*Susan Howard (“Kang and Mara”), Bibi Besch (“Dr Marcus”), Sandra Smith (batshit-crazy “Dr Lester”), Richard Herd (“Admiral Paris”), Rene Auberjonois (“Odo”), Kate Woodville (“Natira”), Sharon Acker (“Odonna”), John Anderson (“Kevin Uxbridge” in “The Survivors” on _ **TNG** _), Paul Carr (“Lt Kelso”), Charles Napier (space hippie “Adam”). And that’s only about halfway down the list!
I thought Richard Herd seemed familiar. I’ve been watching this cop show with some other Star Trek actor whose name escapes me at the moment :D. He played Captain Sheridan.
Michael Ansara, of course, was married to Barbara Eden and appeared on _I Dream of Jeannie_ as the blue djinn.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/118 "2017-08-30T00:58:14Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> Michael Ansara, of course, was married to Barbara Eden and appeared on _I Dream of Jeannie_ as the blue djinn.
I just saw a minute of that episode today in fact.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/119 "2017-08-30T01:03:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> I thought Richard Herd seemed familiar. I’ve been watching this cop show with some other Star Trek actor whose name escapes me at the moment :D. He played Captain Sheridan.
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> Michael Ansara, of course, was married to Barbara Eden and appeared on _I Dream of Jeannie_ as the blue djinn.
Kate Woodville was in another early episode of _ **Mission: Impossible** _. Unusually, she was whacked by the bad guys around the first station break.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/120 "2017-08-30T01:16:45Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Kate Woodville was in another early episode of _ **Mission: Impossible** _. Unusually, she was whacked by the bad guys around the first station break.
She was also in “Hot Snow,” the very first episode of _ **The Avengers** _ in 1961. She played the fiancee of Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) and was murdered by drug smugglers, setting up the scenario for Keel’s collaboration with the mysterious John Steed (Patrick MacNee) and the series’ title.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLcbgZlOlZML6fOXYH5dhCEMxbCdVqiNTs&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1
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