# 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:** 75
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1481 "2022-07-26T19:57:52Z")
For more: [Dawn Wells - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Wells) ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1482 "2022-07-26T20:26:45Z")
Anyone familiar with this actress [Carol Byron](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126374/)? She just stopped working in 1969, and I cant find a reason why. Even the obscure Peggy Dow’s bio says that she (Peggy) retired when she got married. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1483 "2022-07-26T22:26:47Z")
You have a “thing” for Carol? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1484 "2022-07-26T23:49:45Z")
Not so much….I just thought she did really well with what she was given in what I e seen her in. And usually when an actor abruptly stops there’s a given reason ---
**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:** [July 27, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1485 "2022-07-27T13:50:59Z")
I apologize if this has been mentioned before, because this is such a loooooooooong thread, but: Last night TCM aired the movie “Brainstorm” (1965) starring Jeffrey Hunter. He shares one scene with Joseph Mell, the bald slave trader from “The Cage/The Menagerie.” (Did they actually appear on screen together in that ep?) They’re in an insane asylum, and Mell brings Hunter flowers . Also in this movie that are easy to spot: Philip Pine (Col. Green) Pamelyn Ferdin (One of the kids co-opted by “Gorgon, the Friendly Angel”) Steven Ihnat (Garth) Bill Quinn (McCoy’s father, and Bob Newhart’s real-life father-in-law) Going back to “The Cage/The Menagerie,” it appears that with the death of Laurel Goodwin earlier this year that the last surving cast member is Sandra Gimpel, better (un)known as the person inside the M113 salt vampire costume. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1486 "2022-07-27T20:48:55Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Anyone familiar with this actress [Carol Byron](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126374/)? She just stopped working in 1969, and I cant find a reason why. Even the obscure Peggy Dow’s bio says that she (Peggy) retired when she got married. I don’t see that she had any _Star Trek_ credits. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1487 "2022-07-27T20:52:09Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > …Last night TCM aired the movie “Brainstorm” (1965) starring Jeffrey Hunter. He shares one scene with Joseph Mell, the bald slave trader from “The Cage/The Menagerie.” (Did they actually appear on screen together in that ep?)… Indeed they did: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apuye0JcWqM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apuye0JcWqM) ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1488 "2022-07-27T21:24:22Z")
Neither does Dawn Wells. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1489 "2022-07-27T23:56:38Z")
James “Tristan Adams” Gregory is Don Hollinger’s boss “Jonathan Adams” in fifth-season episodes 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:** [July 27, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1490 "2022-07-27T23:59:23Z")
Who was inside it in “The Man Trap”? 😕 ---
**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:** [July 28, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1491 "2022-07-28T01:22:24Z")
Not sure I understand. Sandra Gimpel, playing a Talosian, might be the only surviving identifiable cast member from The Cage/Menagerie. She also played the salt vampire monster in The Man Trap. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1492 "2022-07-28T03:05:22Z")
This thread is so long, I’m sure we’re repeating ourselves…but whenever I think of James Gregory, I think of Barney Miller. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1493 "2022-07-28T12:39:35Z")
Okay, I get it. You were talking about two different episodes. I was under the impression the Salt Vampire was also in the first pilot but was cut out when it became the two-parter. (They _did_ show other “specimens” in the menagerie, kinda.) What I don’t get is how one of the Talosians could fill out that suit. It was big, and they all were small. Did I miss one? ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1494 "2022-07-28T18:39:43Z")
In fact I can only find one actor who appeared on Gilligans Island and a Star Trek episode. Can anyone figure it out without looking it up? I think its pretty difficult, I forgot about him in both episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1495 "2022-07-28T18:41:30Z")
Janos Prohaska. Took me 20 seconds… ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1496 "2022-07-28T18:44:06Z")
Damnit!! Its not the one Im thinking of…And i spent a whole 30 minutes trying to determine if there was another! Well done by the way edit: Nevermind, Ive found several through the Gilligans island wiki I was thinking of Nehemiah Persoff who played a dictator on Gilligans Island, and a very small part in TNG’s “The Most Toys” ---
**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:** [July 28, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1497 "2022-07-28T19:28:01Z")
My first thought was Michael Ansara, who made a career out of playing “Native” types. But I was wrong. The second most obvious choice was Stanley Adams, who _did_ play a Native chief. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1498 "2022-07-28T19:32:24Z")
Michael Forest also apparently played a Native on Gilligans Island ---
**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:** [July 29, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1499 "2022-07-29T20:32:57Z")
Carolyn McCormick provided the voice of Deborah Read Franklin, the Founder’s common-law wife, in the recent Ken Burns documentary _Benjamin Franklin_. > **[Carolyn McCormick](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Carolyn_McCormick)** > > Carolyn McCormick (born 19 September 1959; age 63) is a Texan actress who played the roles of Minuet in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "11001001" and Min Riker in the fourth season episode "Future Imperfect". Archive footage... ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1500 "2022-08-01T08:36:52Z")
Malachi Throne does voice-work for Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp…sounds a great deal like Paul Frees. Carolyn Seymour who played the Romulan Commander in TNGs ‘Face of the Enemy’ does voice-work for Mass Effect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=74) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=76)