# 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:** 76
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1501 "2022-08-02T19:49:37Z")
Just spotted Clyde Kusatsu as a Secret Service technician in the terrific 1993 thriller _In the Line of Fire_. > **[Clyde Kusatsu](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Clyde_Kusatsu)** > > Clyde Kusatsu (born 13 September 1948; age 74) played the recurring role of Vice Admiral Nakamura in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Measure Of A Man", "Phantasms", and "All Good Things...". Kusatsu auditioned for the role of Quark... ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1502 "2022-08-04T13:12:21Z")
Just saw Stephen Root, who shows up in practically everything sooner or later, as a GOP campaign consultant on _The West Wing_. > **[Stephen Root](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Root?so=search)** > > Stephen Root (born 17 November 1951; age 70) is the actor who played Captain K'Vada in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episodes "Unification I" and "Unification II". He filmed his scenes on Monday 16 September 1991 and Tuesday 24... ---
**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:** [August 8, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1503 "2022-08-08T14:53:25Z")
Two future _ST:TNG_ actors appear in the original _Ghostbusters_, which I just saw again over the weekend. Timothy Carhart plays the musical colleague of Sigourney Weaver’s character, who looks suspiciously at Bill Murray on the Lincoln Center plaza. > **[Timothy Carhart](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Timothy_Carhart?so=search)** > > Timothy Carhart (born 24 December 1953; age 68) is the actor who played Lieutenant Commander Christopher Hobson in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "Redemption II". He filmed his scenes on Friday 12 July 1991 on Paramount Stage... And Michael Ensign plays the sniffy hotel manager who hires the Ghostbusters for their first gig. > **[Michael Ensign](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Ensign?so=search)** > > Michael Ensign (born 13 February 1944; age 78) is an actor who appeared as Krola in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "First Contact", Lojal in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "The Forsaken", the Takarian... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1504 "2022-08-14T05:41:00Z")
MeTV runs _Star Trek_ on Saturday evenings, followed by _Kolchak: the Night Stalker_. The same actor was in both shows tonight; Ken Lynch as Vanerberg in _The Devil in the Dark_, and then as Capt. Warren in _the Ripper_. > **[Ken Lynch - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528373/?ref_=tt_cl_t_6)** > > Ken Lynch. Actor: North by Northwest. If ever there was an actor born to play a tough Irish cop, it was Ken Lynch, and he played so many of them in his long career that he could probably do it in his sleep. His suspicious manner, aggressive attitude,... ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1505 "2022-08-14T06:36:41Z")
Then of course there’s James Gregory as [another Kolchak police captain](https://noirencyclopedia.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/kolchak-episode-3-james-gregory-as-captain-quill.png) ---
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1506 "2022-08-14T07:40:00Z")
Ed Peck (again!) as Rob Petrie’s old Army CO in an episode of _ **The Dick Van Dyke Show** _ (“Body and Sol”). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1507 "2022-08-14T11:07:15Z")
There are probably others who have been on both _Star Trek_ and _The Night Stalker_ (Kathie Brown, for one); I just thought it was notable that Ken Lynch’s two episodes were on back-to-back. He was only on each series once. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1508 "2022-08-15T23:55:06Z")
I think of My Favorite Martian. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1509 "2022-08-16T12:07:54Z")
Marina Sirtis of STNG in the Stargate SG-1 episode, “Watergate”, playing Russian character Dr. Svetlana Markov. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1510 "2022-08-17T01:36:56Z")
John Delancie (sp) Q in various STNG episodes, as an asshole from the Pentagon in Stargate SG-1, season 5, episode 3, “Ascension”. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1511 "2022-08-21T07:16:03Z")
David Brian (“Führer John Gill”) as a Mob boss in the Joan Crawford _noir_ _ **The Damned Don’t Cry** _. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1512 "2022-08-21T08:03:22Z")
David Brian again in Joan Crawford’s _ **This Woman is Dangerous** _. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1513 "2022-08-21T18:28:09Z")
Mark “Sarek” Lenard as a frontier DA in Clint Eastwood’s _ **Hang 'Em High** _. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1514 "2022-08-21T19:22:53Z")
also, john delancie had a lengthy stay on days of our lives as one half of the light-hearted comedy relief couple on days of our lives in the late 80s … He also had a one-shot on murder she wrote as a high-class art thief ---
**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:** [August 23, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1515 "2022-08-23T22:14:55Z")
Delancie possessed by a gual’od (sp) and blown out of an airlock (Yeah!) by Col. Jack O’Neill (two Ls) in the SG-1 episode, “Prometheus”. ---
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Janos “Mother Horta” Prohaska as “Clyde the Ape” in _ **Bikini Beach** _ (1964). ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1517 "2022-09-08T21:50:21Z")
There was a short series on Netflix called the Indian Detective, where comedian Russell Peters played an Indo-Canadian detective who ends up in Bombay investigating a crime lord. It was kind of a fish out of water comedy crime drama. I liked it a lot. Anyway, WIlliam Shatner had a small but significant part in it. [Watch The Indian Detective | Netflix Official Site](https://www.netflix.com/title/80190279) ---
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Barry “Surak” Atwater and Alfred “Dr Crater” Ryder as bad guys in back-to-back episodes of _ **Hawaii Five-O** _. Paul “Lt Lee Kelso” Carr as bad guy “Toomie Walsh” in today’s episode. Oddly enough, he had a sidekick named “Lew Kelso.” Madeline “Marla McGivers” Rhue was in today’s episode too. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1519 "2022-09-20T22:03:43Z")
My son and I have gotten hooked on _The Expanse_, a very cool show about interplanetary politics and intrigue in the not-so-distant-future Solar System. Several _ST_ alums in it. As the husband of a top UN official: > **[Brian George](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Brian_George)** > > Brian George (born 1 July 1952; age 70) is an Israel-born actor who appeared as Richard Bashir in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fifth season episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume", and O'Zaal in the Star Trek: Voyager seventh season episode "Drive". He... As executive officer of a ramshackle spaceship: > **[Jonathan Banks](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Banks)** > > Actor Jonathan Ray Banks (born 31 January 1947; age 75) played Golin Shel-la in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "Battle Lines". Rick Berman was impressed with Banks' performance in the episode, commenting that he "did a nice job".... As Earth’s ambassador to the Mars republic: > **[Kenneth Welsh](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kenneth_Welsh?so=search)** > > Kenneth Welsh (30 March 1942 – 5 May 2022; age 80) was an actor who portrayed Senna Tal in the Star Trek: Discovery third season episodes "People of Earth" and "Forget Me Not". Welsh was well-known for playing the villain, Windom Earle, in the second... ---
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We also spotted two _ST_ actors in the horror semicomedy _They Live_. As a rich woman in a grocery store: > **[Thelma Lee](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Thelma_Lee?so=search)** > > Thelma Lee (9 November 1916 – 11 March 2012; age 95), birth name Thelma Laderman, was the actress who portrayed Kahlest in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episode "Sins of The Father". Lee started her career as a comedienne in the... As a TV station exec: > **[Meg Foster](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Meg_Foster)** > > Meg Foster (born 10 May 1948; age 74) is an actress who played Onaya in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fourth season episode "The Muse". Her original fame came in a starring role on Cagney & Lacey. She appeared in three episodes of Quantum Leap,... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=77)