Shatner guested in Mission:Impossible, in which Leonard Nimoy was also a regular (not in the same one, IIRC).
Just saw Jack Shearer as a cabbie in the first episode of How I Met Your Mother.
And Grainger Hines as tough cowboy with a warm heart in the Coen Bros. Western, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Been rewatching the SF classic series “The Invaders”. TOS actors abound in that one. The episode “The Ship” featured Charles Drake, who portrayed the bumbling Commodore Stocker. The other guest stars, while neither of them did Trek, also had their own unique adventures in time and Space. Anne Francis was the love interest in “Forbidden Planet”, while Sandy Kenyon was the co-pilot on Flight 33 in the TZ episode “The Odyssey of Flight 33.”
Additionally, much of the episode was filmed at Vasquez Rocks, also the filming site of the TOS episode “Arena” (where James T. Kirk fought the Gorn).
I also wonder if this episode, where David Vincent captures an alien saucer, was the inspiration for the DS9 episode “The Ship”, where Sisko and others capture a Jem Hadar ship.
“What’s a bathing suit?”
“And then I’ll put more guards on the guards!”
Huh??
Lines from “The Forbidden Planet”. Anne Francis (Altair) asks Captain Adams to swim with her. He says, “I forgot my bathing suit.”
The lines I quoted follow.
The Forbidden Planet could be a Star Trek episode. Captain JJ Adams’ star cruiser arrives to evacuate a failed colony. Major characters include the ship’s doctor and first officer.
A monster created by alien machinery and a survivor’s mind wreaks havoc.
Ah, got it, thanks. Yes, the movie’s influence on Star Trek is pretty obvious.
The ship’s doctor also played one of the Andromeda dudes on ST:TOS.
Yes, Kirk lets them go on the planet after they killed at least one of his crew.
Add to this Charles Macaulay (“Jaris” in “Wolf in the Fold” and “Landru” in Return of the Archons") as FBI agent “Richard.”
Just spotted Neal McDonough as an undercover cop in an episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star.
Got news here: I watched that episode on two different nights this week and read an on-line transcript of it. Despite what it says on the credits, I could find neither “Richard” nor “Gloria” in any scene. I suspect they both ended up on the cutting room floor.
The business about fabricating the victim’s keys was, BTW, dumb and completely unnecessary. I watched a clip of the first act on YouTube and he puts them down in the foyer at 01:20. At 03:05, Lee Grant takes them to dump the body. At 05:15, she takes them when she abandons the car. And at 05:45, she arrives home and puts them down in the foyer again. So GRANT HAD THE DAMNED KEYS ALL THE TIME, and her stepdaughter could have found them if she had bothered to look for them!
The episode “Exile” from “Perversions of Science” had five Trek actors in it. Jeffrey Combs (Shran and others), David Warner (Madred and others), Ron Perlman (The henchmen in Nemisis), Brian Brophy (Maddox) and, from all the way back to TOS: Jeff Corey (Plassus). Not bad.
Banks, I saw over the weekend, also appeared as Adam Scott’s dad on Parks and Recreation.
Shatner must have appeared in 1,000,000 other things, more or less.
He basically lives on Lanai these days. My ex wife’s son is a waiter in that fancy Four Seasons resort there and sees him several times a week.
I think I just spotted Grace Lee Whitney in Some Like It Hot. She wishes Geraldine/Daphne (Jack Lemmon) goodnight as she walks through the Pullman car en route to Florida.
Yes, I think she’s been mentioned upthread.
I just saw Wallace Shawn in the 1989 remake of We’re No Angels, playing a Catholic monk and interpreter for an Italian prelate.
I am relieved to know that you did not post this because he had died.
It is inconceivable!
Saw Jon Lormer in A Columbo episode. I hadn’t realized he was in The Menagerie AND Return of the Archons. Saw Barbara Baldavin a couple of Columbo eps before that. I was ashamed not to have recognized her cause I had a big ol crush on her Trek appearances.
Whenever I see Jeff Corey…its his voice that makes me wonder where I’ve seen him, then it hits me.
- Sheriff Ray Bledsoe : [to Butch and Sundance] You should have let yourself get killed a long time ago when you had the chance. See, you may be the biggest thing that ever hit this area, but you’re still two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you’re still nothing but two-bit outlaws on the dodge. It’s over, don’t you get that? Your times is over and you’re gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose where.
Im pissed I cant find a video
Ted Cassidy’s in both ST and BC&TSK, too.