# 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:** 68
**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 28, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1341 "2021-10-28T18:01:35Z")
Whoa, trippy! 😮 ---
**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 28, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1342 "2021-10-28T18:19:45Z")
I recall the Romulan cloaking device being used as the orb that some intelligences without bodies were sustained in, and Nomad was reused for something else, but I’ve not heard of costumes from other programs. Did they just prowl through wardrobe and junked parts looking for costumes 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:** [October 28, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1343 "2021-10-28T19:45:33Z")
Either that or it was just rented from a costume supply service. I’ve seen crossovers like this before, but can’t think of any off the top of my head. One that may or may not be true: Frank Sinatra’s leather jacket in _ **Von Ryan’s Express** _ was supposedly the same one worn by Bob Crane in _ **Hogan’s Heroes** _. ---
**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 29, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1344 "2021-10-29T20:15:05Z")
I remember reading at the time _ST:TMP_ came out that several of the aliens’ costumes in the San Francisco scene were drawn and/or adapted from clothes long stored in the studio’s wardrobe backrooms, the oldest of which was from _The Ten Commandments_ IIRC. ---
**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 29, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1345 "2021-10-29T20:57:07Z")
Captain Kirk spreads his arms out, and a gas nebula disperses. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1346 "2021-10-29T22:16:29Z")
“Catspaw” was aired Oct 27, 1967, and “Lovey’s Secret Admirer” aired 9 months prior, on January 23, 1967. Depending on actual filming dates the costume would barely be back from the dry cleaners before it got snagged. ---
**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 29, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1347 "2021-10-29T22:29:54Z")
Theodore Marcuse, “Korab” was killed in a DWI in November, 1967. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1348 "2021-11-01T16:57:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Captain Kirk spreads his arms out, and a gas nebula disperses. Kirk, his arms wide! ---
**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:** [November 1, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1349 "2021-11-01T17:21:18Z")
Heir, commenting! ---
**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:** [November 1, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1350 "2021-11-01T20:51:49Z")
Just watched “Flashback”, staring Dennis Hopper and Keifer Sutherland. Trek actors were Paul Dooley (Enabrin Tain), Cliff DeYoung (Croden) and Michael McKean (Fear). ---
**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:** [November 11, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1351 "2021-11-11T02:25:02Z")
The “Night Gallery” pilot movie had three Barry Atwater (Surak), Richard Kiley, who portrayed Gideon Sayitek (who thought he was God) and George Murdock, who portrayed God (sort of in ST:5 The Final Frontier (And Admiral Hanson). ---
**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:** [November 11, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1352 "2021-11-11T10:03:54Z")
I was looking through the list of long-forgotten TV series from the '50s on IMDb yesterday. _ **Star Trek** _ actors were all over the place, especially in anthologies. It was a great period for unknowns to cut their teeth, so to speak. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1353 "2021-11-17T17:58:14Z")
Just saw the late Anton Yelchin (Chekov in the J.J. Abrams _ST_ reboot movies) as a grunge rock gofer in the vampire drama _Only Lovers Left Alive_. A small part, but 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:** [November 20, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1354 "2021-11-20T21:35:32Z")
Vic Tayback played Jojo Krako in TOS “A Piece of the Action”. He played a bad guy in the Rawhide episode, “The Gray Back Hotel”. Lola Albright from Peter Gunn is also in this Rawhide episode. A very attractive actress, I can’t decide if she is playing the role badly, or if I just type cast her as playing Edie Hart. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1355 "2021-11-20T22:17:03Z")
Lola Albright was the victim in “Fade in to Murder,” the 1976 episode of _ **Columbo** _ with William Shatner and Walter Koenig. I remember her best as the gold-digger who tried to nail Jed Clampett on _ **The Beverly Hillbillies** _. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1356 "2021-11-21T00:12:51Z")
How well did she act? I keep expecting Pete to come in and kick ass. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1357 "2021-11-21T02:17:29Z")
All she had to do to go from frumpy to hot was let her hair down and remove her glasses. Jed was too smart to fall for her guiles, though, and palmed her off to Jethro so he could dazzle her with his cipherin’. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1358 "2021-11-22T20:22:19Z")
I saw Joseph Mell in two different programs recently: I played a (bad guy) scientist in an episode of the 1950s ‘Superman’. He played a zookeeper in a Red Skelton program. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1359 "2021-11-23T01:35:43Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > I played a (bad guy) scientist in an episode of the 1950s ‘Superman’. …how old _are_ you? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1360 "2021-11-23T14:34:01Z")
And what’s Mell’s _Star Trek_ connection? Ah, never mind. I see: [Joseph Mell | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Joseph_Mell) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=69)