# 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:** 73
**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:** [April 26, 2022, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1441 "2022-04-26T11:50:22Z")
Ken Lynch (again!) as a studio executive in _ **That Girl** _’s “7 1/4.” Stanley Adams (again!) as “Sheriff Tate” in _ **Bonanza** _’s “The Pure Truth.” ---
**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:** [May 3, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1442 "2022-05-03T01:24:16Z")
I’m not sure this counts, but I began this thread about a hundred years ago, so: Janos Prohaska wore the horta suit in “Devil in the Dark”, and wore a chimpanzee suit in the Outer Limits episode, “The Sixth Finger”. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1443 "2022-05-03T01:36:48Z")
Vic Tayback (“JoJo Krakow” in “A Piece of the Action”) as a mover in today’s episode of _ **That Girl** _. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1444 "2022-05-05T04:37:16Z")
Bill Quinn (“McCoy, Sr”) as a priest in today’s episode of _ **That Girl** _. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1445 "2022-05-10T21:31:17Z")
Arthur “Lt D’Amato” Batanides as “Bernard the Gangster” in the “Big Max Calvada” episode of _ **The Dick Van Dyke Show** _. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1446 "2022-05-21T06:08:58Z")
Michael “Apollo” Forest as a Catholic priest in the _ **Dick Van Dyke** _ episode “The Life and Love of Joe Coogan.” ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1447 "2022-06-14T18:03:03Z")
Christopher Plummer plays a crusty old Swedish tycoon in _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_. > **[Christopher Plummer](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_Plummer)** > > Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer, CC (13 December 1929 – 5 February 2021; age 91) was an actor who played General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He also reprised the role of Chang for the video game Star Trek: Klingon Academy. In a... ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1448 "2022-06-14T19:09:47Z")
I had no idea that was Plummer. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1449 "2022-06-14T21:58:14Z")
As a Swede or as a Klingon? ---
**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:** [June 14, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1450 "2022-06-14T23:33:22Z")
As Chang. Swedes don’t have that forehead problem. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1451 "2022-06-16T15:41:13Z")
“Problem”? ---
**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:** [June 16, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1452 "2022-06-16T15:43:15Z")
Er, Swedes don’t have such attractive foreheads as Klingons do. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1453 "2022-06-16T15:44:41Z")
Better. 😉 ---
**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:** [June 16, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1454 "2022-06-16T15:50:17Z")
'IwlIj jachjaj ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1455 "2022-06-17T18:50:17Z")
nuH 'oH baHlu’chugh ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1456 "2022-06-17T18:55:14Z")
A double baHl’chugh on 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:** [June 17, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1457 "2022-06-17T20:45:08Z")
jIQuchqu’mo’ loDnI’wI’ ---
**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:** [June 19, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1458 "2022-06-19T11:10:19Z")
I saw Bill Quinn again in the episode of _ **That Girl** _ where the rock band hired to play at her father’s restaurant stripped at the end of their set. Hey, it was the '60s! (And Ann and Donald never got it on once in five years… 🥺 ) ---
**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:** [June 20, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1459 "2022-06-20T14:51:25Z")
Just saw Alan Ruck as a clueless Walgreens exec in _The Dropout_, a movie about the Theranos corporate scandal. > **[Alan Ruck](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Alan_Ruck)** > > Alan Ruck (born 1 July 1956; age 66) played Captain John Harriman in Star Trek Generations. He is probably most recognizable for his roles as Cameron Frye, Ferris Bueller's hypochondriacal best friend, in the 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off... Also saw Jason Isaacs as a prickly British admiral in the WWII espionage drama _Operation Mincemeat_. > **[Jason Isaacs](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jason_Isaacs)** > > Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963; age 59) is a British actor who portrayed Captain Gabriel Lorca in the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. Isaacs also voiced the character as part of the Discovery-themed Star Trek Online expansion, Rise of... ---
**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:** [June 21, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1460 "2022-06-21T01:29:43Z")
Colm Meaney of Deep Space Nine, in Stargate Atlantis, “Underground”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=72) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=74)