# 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:** 69
**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 23, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1361 "2021-11-23T19:38:39Z")
Yeah, obviously wrong pronoun. Would not have made that error in Japanese. ---
**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 29, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1362 "2021-11-29T17:18:21Z")
Just saw the ubiquitous Bill “Hey, it’s that old guy!” Cobbs as a famous jazz musician in the Tom Hanks comedy _That Thing You Do!_: [Bill Cobbs | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_Cobbs) ---
**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:** [December 6, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1363 "2021-12-06T16:47:08Z")
Stephen Root turned up again, this time as a conservative political activist in a recent episode of the HBO drama _Succession_: [Stephen Root | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Root) ---
**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:** [December 12, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1364 "2021-12-12T01:44:13Z")
Watching “Head” in honor of Mike Nesmith and I hear a familiar voice playing a cop. It’s Logan Ramsey, the head Roman from “Bread and Circuses”. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1365 "2021-12-12T19:34:50Z")
John Anderson (“Kevin Uxbridge” in _ **TNG** _) and Ken Lynch (“Chief Miner Vanderberg” in _ **TOS** _) in the 1962 movie _ **Walk on the Wild Side** _. ---
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Stanley Adams, Cyrano Jones of the Trouble With Tribbles, in the little known WWII submarine series, “Silent Service”. He plays torpedoman Stanley in "[Crevalle’s Mine Plant"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2n2K4f0s48). ---
**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:** [December 13, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1367 "2021-12-13T18:26:55Z")
The venerable Bill Erwin played a grumpy old man in an airport in the first _Home Alone_ movie, which we watched last night: [Bill Erwin | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_Erwin) ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1368 "2021-12-14T05:35:39Z")
Did he take milk in his tea? 🤭 ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1369 "2021-12-14T19:13:53Z")
Not in that movie, at least! ---
**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:** [December 15, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1370 "2021-12-15T14:10:10Z")
Anthony Caruso, Oxmyx from “A Piece of the Action” as Lt.Walter Mazone in another Silent Service episode, “Cargo for Crevalle”. Skinner than I’ve ever seen him. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1371 "2021-12-25T01:31:29Z")
A seasonal post. John Fiedler, Hengist of Wolf in the Fold, played Mr. Dundee, the jerk store manager in the Christmas Twilight Zone episode, Night of the Meek. ---
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I knew I forgot someone, Tnx! ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1373 "2021-12-30T13:03:02Z")
Willard Sage, “Thann,” one of the Vians in “The Empath,” as defense attorney “Matt Richards” in the _ **My Three Sons** _ episode “Tramp’s First Bite.” To be honest, I mistook him for John Anderson until I checked IMDb. There’s definitely a resemblance. > **[Willard Sage - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756082/?ref_=tt_cl_t_12)** > > Willard Sage. Actor: Star Trek. Willard Sage was born on 13 August 1922 in London, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), The Butler's Night Off (1951) and Ben Casey (1961). He was previously married to Judith Ann (Handel)... Ian Wolfe “Mr Atoz” in “All Our Yesterdays” and “Septimus” in “Bread and Circuses,” as the titular character in the _ **Bonanza** _ episode “The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch.” As an aside, this episode also featured Arnold “Top Cat” Stang as :“Jake the Weasel,” Burt “Perennial Old Guy” Mustin as “Burt Lucas,” and luscious Sue Ane Langdon as “Jennifer Flinch.” ---
**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:** [December 30, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1374 "2021-12-30T18:22:40Z")
Barbara Luna (“Lt Marlena Maru” in “Mirror, Mirror”) as “Elena Kamoku” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “A Lion in the Streets.” ---
**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:** [December 31, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1375 "2021-12-31T22:46:00Z")
Morgan Woodward in the Wagon Train episode, “The Jed Polke Story”. Former prisoners of Andersonville seek revenge on Polke, and he just happens to be rescued by their wagon train. Woodward plays a psychopath, which he was very good at just as in Dagger of the Mind and The Omega Glory. His agent must have had a sign on his door, “Rent a Psycho”. ---
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Another Wagon Train episode, “The Alice Whitetree Story”. Ken Lynch, chief engineer Vandenberg in “The Devil in the Dark”, plays Sheriff Aaron Morton (I can hear him grunting, “Morton!”) trying to arrest the love interest, Alice Whitetree. ---
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Michael Strong (“Dr Roger Korby”) as wife-beater “Meredith Howell” in the _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ episode “Though the Heavens Fall.” ---
**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:** [January 10, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1378 "2022-01-10T17:08:50Z")
This guy, a well-known character actor, as a nuclear weapons expert in _The West Wing_ episode “Lord John Marbury”: [Clyde Kusatsu | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Clyde_Kusatsu) ---
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James “Scotty” Doohan and Majel “Nurse Chapel” Barrett as homesteaders in the _ **Bonanza** _ episode “Gift of Water.” (1962) ---
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