# 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:** 67
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1321 "2021-10-04T17:43:56Z")
Outstanding, Icarus! ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1322 "2021-10-04T18:04:52Z")
I remember Shatner playing a psycho killer from the USA on a Canadian police procedural called _ **The Professionals** _ back in the '70s. One line that stuck in my mind came when he was taunting the leader of the CSI unit, who was named “Brewer”: _‘Brewer!’ Ha-ha! You shoulda stuck to makin’ beer!_ 🤣 ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1323 "2021-10-04T18:21:43Z")
Shatner was in a short career-counseling film I saw in middle school. It must’ve been filmed within a year or two of the end of _ST:TOS_. I don’t remember much about it, except that he was good in it. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1324 "2021-10-04T19:34:41Z")
He looks and sounds very good for ninety. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1325 "2021-10-05T12:39:54Z")
That struck me too. He really does come off as 20 years younger. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1326 "2021-10-05T13:31:23Z")
Nanites? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1327 "2021-10-06T23:30:24Z")
Anthony Caruso, Bella Oxymyx from “A Piece of the Action”. played Cortez in the “Time Tunnel” episode, “The Golden Mask”. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1328 "2021-10-06T23:52:37Z")
Nevermind ---
**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:** [October 7, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1329 "2021-10-07T00:31:38Z")
The gremlin on the wing Shatner saw was in “Nightmare at 20,000 feet”. Let’s hope he doesn’t see one on Blue Origin, but he might mention it. The other Twilight Zone episode he starred in was “Nick of Time.” ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1330 "2021-10-07T14:33:50Z")
That would be the best thing! ---
**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:** [October 7, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1331 "2021-10-07T15:37:57Z")
Yes, that would be extremely cool. “Hey did you guys see something out there?” ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1332 "2021-10-08T17:41:57Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Saul Rubinek is Artie, the front guy for Warehouse 13. Kate Mulgrew plays Pete’s Mom, and is a regent of the Warehouse. Data was in it, too, as a monk. I know I’m replying to a nearly three year old post, but I have been re-watching _Warehouse 13_ and I did a search to make sure mine hasn’t been mentioned yet. I just watched the episode where Kate Mulgrew shows up, which I see has already been mentioned (Interestingly, her character’s name is Jane on _Warehouse 13_ after playing Captain Janeway on _Voyager_). However, you failed to mention Jeri Ryan playing Pete’s ex in a couple of episodes. Apparently I haven’t gotten to the episode with Brent Spiner yet. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1333 "2021-10-08T18:51:35Z")
In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Shatner said, “I’m going to prees my nose against that plastic window…what I don’t want to see is someone looking in at me.” That may be edited out of this interview. [https://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2021/10/06/william-shatner-space-flight-acfc-full-episode-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/acfc-full-episodes/](https://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2021/10/06/william-shatner-space-flight-acfc-full-episode-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/acfc-full-episodes/) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1334 "2021-10-08T19:37:30Z")
There’s a new, officious Head Of Doctor Stuff on the show _New Amsterdam._ [Kind of middle-aged and wrinkly,](http://www.ksitetv.com/wp-content/gallery/same-as-it-ever-was/NUP_194873_01654.JPG) but that didn’t stop me from blurting out “Hey, it’s Ensign Ro!” . “… and everyone can see her!” (but none of my family knew what I was talking about, or cared) ---
**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:** [October 8, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1335 "2021-10-08T20:18:51Z")
Oh, you mean Commander Cain? ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2021, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1336 "2021-10-10T17:04:23Z")
Kinda cheating in a way, but MeTV sent me a news blurb that “Spectre of the Gun” wasn’t DeForest Kelley’s first time acting out the gunfight at O.K. Corral, but the third. He was Ike Clanton in an episode of “You Are There” (1955), and Morgan Earp in Gunfight at O.K. Corral (1957). He played Tom McLaury in the Star Trek version. Wikipedia says he played villains for nine years, and was afraid of being typecast so he spent a couple of years doing other roles, eventually settling on a doctor role and – getting typecast. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1337 "2021-10-10T17:38:20Z")
Cool! ---
**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:** [October 10, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1338 "2021-10-10T17:54:15Z")
Robert Walker, Charlie X in a TOS episode, played the title role in The Time Tunnel episode, Billy the Kid. I was fifteen minutes into TT, “who IS that 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:** [October 16, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1339 "2021-10-16T00:28:05Z")
Bela Okmyx of “A Piece of the Action”, Anthony Caruso again, in the “Wagon Train” episode, “The Traitor”. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1340 "2021-10-28T17:57:51Z")
Not an actor, but a _ **costume** _: Korob in “Catspaw” not only took the location and feel of scary Earth from Kirk’s thoughts, but apparently Kirk was watching a season 3 episode of Gilligan’s Island, “Lovey’s Secret Admirer”, just prior to heading down to the planet, and Korob wore the robe of the Fairy Godfather (played by Gilligan in Mrs Howell’s dream sequence). It popped up everywhere in the news feeds but [here’s one with both pictures](https://the-ossuary.com/slash-film-the-unexpected-prop-star-trek-borrowed-from-gilligans-island/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=66) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=68)