Star Trek actors from other things

I'll start off with three Twin Peaks alums:

Madchen Amick
Richard Beymer
Ray Wise

Pamela Adlon
John Doman (aka Rawls from The Wire)
Mick Fleetwood
Iggy Pop

David Ogden Stiers

fucking MURDOCK as motherfucking REG BARCLAY

Stephen Root is unrecognizable and amazing in this bit Klingon part in the Spock TNG episode:
https://i.imgur.com/gvW8tr2.png

Jason Alexander
loads of babylon 5 alumni

Dude, this is roughly equivalent to 'Law and Order actors from other things.

If they're not too famous and they were middle-aged when a Star Trek was in production, chances are they were on a Star Trek.

this is true

I've been watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman lately and I was wondering what happened to Graham Jarvis so I looked it up yesterday. Guess what show his main photo on IMDB was from.

Corbin Bernsen from LA Law was in a Q episode.

farmer hoggett, owner of babe the pig

who was married to the female redshirt who got dehydrated to death

James Cromwell had three unique roles in Trek!

yeah i didn't even recognize him as that smuggler pilot

in the news!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQZBT13W0AIYmu8.jpg:small

five bucks on cromwell dropping chaterjee in the second round

Dude, this is roughly equivalent to 'Law and Order actors from other things.

― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo the better game in that case is "actors who made it big who were in a L&O episode years ago"

I’m confused.

I think we're talking about people who were already known actors or even famous actors who then appeared in Star Trek

although if we're going for "people who were later famous who were in a Star Trek episode" it's probably an easier task

OK, so like James Worthy.

Xpost

Kelsey Grammer on TNG
Sarah Silverman on Voyager

Whoopi

famke

kirsten dunst

Adam Scott in First Contact

Ashley Judd.

Karl Urban is the king of this as far as I'm concerned, both because he's in everything and also because (IMHO) he inhabits his version of McCoy so well that you really have to close your eyes to remember that he was Eomer from LOTR. Part of me wishes they had cast him as someone more meaningful in the MCU than Skurge the Executioner, the same part of me that ruminates that he's too big now to play a companion on Dr. Who.

he's always the bad guy from bourne 2 for me

well yeah which character did you think I had in mind as the archetype for his Dr Who companion role that he's never going to get to do

i . . . don't actually know what it means to be a dr who companion

What it says on the label, to be really real.

I don’t really count the reboot movies because every single lead actor has been in eight million things

if they wanted to be serious about serializing they’d have picked outsiders they could hitch to contractual obligations indefinitely

I respect your perspective

I actually expected a loud chorus of nerd boos for picking a reboot movie guy

but since I’m at it, Zoe Saldana

zachary qunto!
chris pine!
exclamation points!

Those people have hardly been in other things come on

hard to beat Karl Urban’s steadfast movie beat, especially in the franchise space

but, he wasn’t the good role but Chris Pine was in a best picture nominee

Tom Morello!

completely forgot that happened and it makes me lol

Klingons Parade
People of the Son'a

shoot first, ask Christian Slater

would have been super cringe but Kirstie Allie reprising Saavik alongside Captain Fraiser might have been worth it if they could work out how Bebe Neuworth's alien groupie character got stranded on a movie-era ship at the same time.

Kim Cattrall

Joan Collins was a fairly big, brief deal in the '50s before she turned up on OST's most lionized episode. Then she got huge again in the '80s.

also, the celebrated James Redd fave 'Mr Atoz' from TOS had some fuckin' career: Mutiny on the Bounty, Rebel without a Cause, THX-1138, Reds, couple Hitchcock films, "Cheers"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Wolfe

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b0/4a/c7/b04ac7709e423c6f82e2d117aa54fed8.jpg

barbara babcock was also in TOS (twice) and cheers

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/82/ee/84/82ee84f955dd3b8318e1753ab23cc554.jpg

woody harrelson and rhea perlman would have made good ST villains.

William Marshall, the Shakespearean actor who created "The Ultimate Computer," went on to be Blacula AND Pee-wee's King of Cartoons

http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/Star-Trek-scene-image.jpg

gary lockwood appearing in both ST and 2001 within the span of a few years makes me wonder if general audiences already had the sense of how cheesy the special effects, set/costume design were by comparison.

that ST pilot Lockwood appeared in was shot in '65, I think -- probably immediately before Kubrick began production.

But the disparity of time and budget couldn't be more vast.

(i mean, Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull pioneered effects for 2001)

The Prisoner probably had a comparable or even smaller budget and has dated much better. Too bad McGoohan's TNG cameo never panned out.

sure, The Prisoner had a very imaginative and well-executed design. No space travel tho, and i'm sure UK vs US TV were entirely different games productionwise.

That Prisoner finale had a biiiiit of space travel. Could you imagine how awesome a spinoff series starring McGoohan would have been? Deep Station Zebra! Dueling speechifying with Patrick Stewart!

Steven Weber
Frank Langella

In the same episode, no less.

All this and no one mentioned Mick Fleetwood in TNG:

http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/mickfleetwood.jpg

Trayce, see the second post. :(

Gah! Sorry Lee