Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs

Ran across this one on another board.

He eventually got over being shocked by cyborgs.

He’s what, 20 years old? :slight_smile:

She was in a lot of TV shows, both before and after Trek. She was also an accomplished aviator, only the fourth woman to fly the Atlantic solo in a single-engine airplane, and a winner of the Powder Puff Derby.

Yvonne Craig, another green-skinned Orion slave girl, from “Whom Gods Destroy”, was better known as Batgirl.

Ms. Oliver’s appearance in “The Cage” could be considered a counterpoint to her TZ appearance where she helped put someone in a cage. I also remember her from a two-part “Fugitive” episode, as well as a couple of guest shots on “The Invaders”.

I saw Grace Lee Whitney in another ep of “77 Sunset Strip.” She played a stripper. Think she was only in the opening scene. I didn’t recognize her, but saw her name in the credits, so I restarted it.

Do you recall which caper it was? :slight_smile:
I’ve seen many of them, but I don’t recall a stripper or Ms. Whitney.

^[1]("77 Sunset Strip" The Left Field Caper (TV Episode 1963) - Reference View - IMDb). The scene occurred in the dressing room, not on stage, so she didn’t actually strip–but it was very obvious what her profession was. As you can see in the credits, her stage name was ‘Flame,’ so she might have had reddish hair(piece) for this ep.


  1. The Left Field Caper ↩︎

Thanks!

I’m watching another Alias Smith and Jones rerun and Mark Lenard is in this one. He’s most famous for playing Sarek, but he was also the Romulan commander in Balance of Terror and played one of the “new” Klingons in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The answer to a great trivia question; who is the only actor to play a human, a Vulcan, a Romulan, a Klingon, and a gorilla?

Lenard was a gorilla? Or are you thinking of Janos Prohaska? :dubious: :confused:

Lenard was a gorilla, but not in Star Trek. He had a recurring role in the Planet of the Apes TV series.

Just saw the 1965 James Garner/Eva Marie Saint WWII drama 36 Hours. James Doohan has a single line as a British officer (RAF, I think) in London just before D-Day, and Celia Lovsky (T’Pau) plays an elderly German woman who’s part of the anti-Nazi underground.

Is that the film where Garner has a paper cut?

He was also in an episode of Buck Rogers as an alien who could remove his own head. Seriously. Wikipedia describes his character as “a mysterious head-removing ambassador.” :eek:

An episode called “Journey to Oasis” just to grab as much Star Trek reference as possible. Amazingly enough, Mark Lenard’s head-removing character wasn’t the weirdest thing in that episode - the riddle-spouting, lightning bolt shooting blue dwarf named Odee-x had that honor. Odee-x was played by Felix Silla, who I believe was a Talosian in “The Cage”, by the way.

Better known as “Cousin Itt” on The Addams Family.

And the robot Tiwikiin Buck Rogers. He got around!

Yes, which turns out to be an important clue.

Linky no worky.

I would humbly suggest that the weirdest thing about it was Mark Lenard’s dialogue during the head-removal scene. Buck is gawping at this dude who just took off his own head and set it down on a big rock. And Lenard’s disembodied head says, ever so self-righteously, “On my planet, you would be considered a monster because you can’t remove your head.”

Truly, a powerful lesson about accepting those who are different!