# 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:** 70
**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:** [January 19, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1381 "2022-01-19T01:58:10Z")
I laugh whenever they switch back and forth from long shots filmed outdoors and medium shots obviously filmed on a sound stage. The effect is especially bizarre when the actor’s galloping through the countryside on horseback. And the colors—my God, the saturation is incredible! It’s obvious NBC wanted this series so RCA could sell more color TV sets. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1382 "2022-01-19T02:12:29Z")
Surely. Consider Barnaby’s pink jeans on Wagon Train. Anyone in the old West would have delightedly beaten him to death for wearing those. ---
**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 19, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1383 "2022-01-19T17:07:12Z")
Watching old _West Wing_ episodes, I spotted both Richard Fancy as a Democratic Congressman and John de Lancie as a scrappy pollster. > **[Richard Fancy](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Fancy)** > > Richard Fancy (born 2 August 1943; age 79) is the actor who played Vulcan Captain Satelk in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "The First Duty". He filmed his scenes for this episode on Friday 31 January 1992 and on Monday 3... > **[John de Lancie](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_de_Lancie)** > > John Sherwood de Lancie, Jr. (born 20 March 1948; age 74) is an American actor, director, producer, writer, educator, sailor, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,... ---
**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:** [January 20, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1384 "2022-01-20T19:41:44Z")
Meg “The Keeper” Wylie as Joyce “Rebecca” Bulifant’s “Aunt Martha” in the _ **My Three Sons** _ episode “Flashback.” (1963) ---
**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 24, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1385 "2022-01-24T19:35:46Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > … > Stephen Root as the crooked Los Angeles DA in recent episodes of HBO’s _Perry Mason_ reboot. > [Stephen Root | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Root) Root, I just saw, also appears in the very funny but dark HBO crime comedy _Barry_ as the mentor and father figure to the title character (Bill Hader), a Marine Corps veteran and reluctant assassin. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1386 "2022-01-24T22:03:28Z")
Jerry Maren, one of the copper-skinned ambassadors in “Journey to Babel,” as KAOS agent “Lower Gemini” in the _ **Get Smart** _ episode “Hello, Columbus—Goodbye America!” ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1387 "2022-01-25T01:06:12Z")
The actor who portrayed Lt. Hawk in Star Trek: First Contact is better known now for playing Damien Darhk On the various “Arrowverse” shows. Neal McDonough. (That blew my mind.) ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1388 "2022-01-25T05:10:11Z")
According to IMDb, Jerry Maren was the green-haired Munchkin who handed Dorothy a lollipop in _ **The Wizard of Oz** _. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1389 "2022-01-25T11:50:48Z")
Memory Alpha says the other copper skinned guy, Billy Curtis was also in The Wizard of Oz. > **[Jerry Maren](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jerry_Maren)** > > Jerry Maren (24 January 1920 – 24 May 2018; age 98) was an actor who appeared as a copper-skinned alien delegate in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Journey to Babel". He filmed his scene on Monday 25 September 1967 at Desilu... ---
**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 25, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1390 "2022-01-25T14:52:44Z")
Huh. I didn’t know that the Federation had diplomatic relations with the Lollipop Guild. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1391 "2022-01-25T22:03:28Z")
Those are dilithium lollypops. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1392 "2022-01-26T18:47:28Z")
A recent newsfeed click headline. Not sure if this is the right thread, but close enough: **Star Trek’s Jeffrey Hunter: The Pete Best of Science Fiction** ([ultimateclassicrock com) ---
**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:** [January 26, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1393 "2022-01-26T20:59:06Z")
That’s ok with me, but the link isn’t working. CP ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1394 "2022-01-26T22:04:43Z")
It wasn’t a link, just the website headline. [Found the article](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jeffrey-hunter-pete-best/) Not sure who should feel worse of the two. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1395 "2022-01-26T22:05:13Z")
Ed Peck (“Col Fellini” in “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”) as “Commercial Producer Sam” in “Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There,” the pilot episode of _ **That Girl** _. I feel 11 years old again. 🥰 **NB:** Before this, there was an “unaired pilot” in which Ted Bessel was “Don Blue Sky” of Native American ancestry. (No, he wasn’t made up to look Amerindian.) ---
**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:** [January 28, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1396 "2022-01-28T00:46:01Z")
Ricardo Montalban, KAHN!!! in the second episode of Wagon Train’s first season, title role in “The Jean Lebec Story”. Montalban was in an episode of some TV series where he was to play a criminal who had killed his wife. Montalbon told the writers that he loved his wife dearly, and did not want to play a wife murderer. The writer said in an interview that they would usually tell the actor to go to Hell, but he asked Montalban, “How would you like to play an international jewel thief?” ---
**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 31, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1397 "2022-01-31T16:26:19Z")
Just saw Charley Lang as a closeted gay Republican Congressman on _The West Wing_, and thought he looked familiar. > **[Charley Lang](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Charley_Lang)** > > Charley Lang (born 24 October 1955; age 67) is an actor from Passaic, New Jersey who played Lieutenant junior grade Duffy in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episode "Hollow Pursuits". Following his appearance on TNG, Lang went on to... ---
**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:** [February 4, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1398 "2022-02-04T20:59:07Z")
Ken Lynch, “Chief Engineer Vanderberg” in “The Devil in the Dark,” as “NYPD Officer Dombrowski” in the “Little Auction Annie” episode of _ **That Girl** _. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1399 "2022-02-05T16:45:17Z")
Been looking at “The Ultimate Science Fiction Collection” DVD set of old movies. Some real classics there. In “Doctor Cyclops” (1940!) Paul Fix has a bit part, twenty-five years before he played Doctor Piper in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1400 "2022-02-06T02:12:34Z")
Skip Homeier, Melakon in “Patterns of force” and unrecognizable as Doctor Severin in “The Way to Eden”, ears that out did Spock, played the Wichita Kid in the Rawhide episode, “Bush War at Buford”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=71)