So true, it's remarkable how he is able to be so different that you have to look hard to realuse it's actually him. The great performance and sense of humour is always there.
Funny you mentioned Famke Janssen from X-men. The guy who played Professor Charles Xavier, in that same film, got his big break playing a recurring role in TNG.
The most amazing thing for me is the appearance of the prince Abdallah of Jordan (now king of Jordan) in Voyager. I mean, yes, all these guests are great, but having a real king is something extraordinary
Here’s a fun and off the wall one, TNG was the first time Stephen Hawking guest starred on a fictional TV show as himself. He would go on to do it on The Simpsons, Futurama, The Big Bang Theory, and Stargate: Atlantis. But TNG was the first 😎
@@jeremycraft8452 I was about to say "Hold on, what about...?" spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler spoiler but then I remembered that The Orville is not Star Trek.
James Cromwell had small roles in both TNG and DS9. The latter was in 1995, the same year he hit the big time with Babe, and the next year he was one of the stars of ST:First Contact as Zefram Cochran, inventor of Warp travel.
James Cromwell had already done quite a few other roles. Back in the 70's, he was Archie Bunker's pal Jerome "Stretch" Cunningham, who dies suddenly in 1976, and, at his funeral, Archie finds out that he was Jewish.
A couple other ones for a future list: -Colm Meaney, sure he was a cast member, but his career really took off from playing everyone’s favorite Chief as a guest star on TNG -Sally Kellerman, Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in TOS was one of her early roles -Gary Lockwood, in the same TOS episode of Kellerman it was also an early role for him, and before his most famous role in 2001 A Space Odyssey. -Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, yes he was already a famous wrestler, but the Pendari Champion was one of his first acting roles -John Larroquette, Night Court was just starting when he appeared in Star Trek III -Miguel Ferrer was also not well known when he appeared in Star Trek III
@Pumpkin Spice Yep. He’s the one who tells Kirk he does not deserve to live and then Kirk says he’ll kill him later. I think his name is Maltz in the movie.
@@47ness5 I've met and had two long conversations with Gary Lockwood at two Star Trek Las Vegas conventions pre-Covid. I'm old enough to remember him in the lead of "The Lieutenant", a series developed by Roddenberry pre-ST. I was only about 7, but I had a crush on him. I also noted him in "2001." We had a lot to talk about and found out we shared a connection to the University of Michigan.
Seth MacFarlane played Ensign Rivers in Enterprise, 2004 & 2005. Obviously, he was already famous for Family Guy and many other projects, but I think the character he played was only his second live action one (he was in an episode of Gilmore Girls first).
Kurtwood Smith one of the stars in That 70’s Show TV Series played the unnamed, targeted-for-assassination Federation President in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Thrax, the Cardassian security officer, in the Deep Space Nine episode “Things Past,” and the Krenim temporal scientist Annorax in the Voyager two-parter, “Year of Hell.” And While we know Kelsey Grammer played a role in Star Trek his on TV wife Lilith from Cheers Bebe Neuwirth plays a nerdy, excitable alien doctor Lanel opposite Riker in First Contact too
@@FranOfTheDead yeah, that scene in Star Trek III with the finger stroking is basically some intense Vulcan foreplay. Means very little to us human viewers, but would be considered quite explicit by the Vulcans.
Ashley Judd was such a great choice both for being cast in TNG and as number 1 on this list... seeing that clip of her brought back all the coming of age feels and the big crush I had in her back in the day... ☺️🤓👍🏽
I was surprised Chris Hemsworth wasn’t on the list. I think that the role of George Kirk in Star Trek was his first role outside of Australia. I am also pretty sure that one of Sarah Silverman’s first roles was as Rain Robinson in the Star Trek Voyager two parter Future’s End. I’m not sure if Neal McDonough was well known or how many roles he had before Lt Hawk in First Contact so I don’t know if he counts or not. Same goes for Daniel Dae Kim and his Voyager and Enterprise guest roles.
Danial Dae Kim was in Trek? What episodes? I guess it's hard to recognize someone that you've only really ever seen wearing shades and brandishing a hunting knife in each hand.
@@GabePuratekuta Star Trek Voyager S06E12 Blink of an Eye: The alien male astronaut Enterprise as one of the M.A.C.O. in: S03E01 The Xindi, S03E03 Extinction & S03E17 Hatchery.
There was actually a book that focused on Lt. Hawk. It was framed as Picard recalling the story after Hawk’s assimilation and death. According to the book, Hawk was gay. His husband would be angry at Picard and Worf for killing him instead of trying to reverse the assimilation the way it was done for Picard. But the story was about an attempt to recruit Hawk for a certain secretive organization. Hawk did the right thing and refused
Don't forget Tony Todd. He was Worf's brother on TNG. After that his roles in movie's and TV got bigger in the 90's. He also returned several times to Trek, notably in DS9 as worf's brother again, and also as a future Jake Sisko.
Teri also did a Canadian B movie called The Cool Surface. Even the very hot sex scenes could not save it from being a bad movie, so bad that it was shelved until Lois & Clark came out and the producers figured that they could make a few bucks on her new fame by releasing the movie directly to video.
@@ronald3419 Trying to shake off the Penny Parker-image, she also did a leading role in "Brainsmasher", which is as bad as you might expect from the title, so that it became a niche cult, and a minor role in "The big picture", which is quite good.
What about David Soul?, you really overlooked him. He was in the episode "The Apple" of the second TOS season, which was one of his first TV roles. He then achieved real cult and global fame in the 70s series "Starsky & Hutch".
Charles Napier. He played one of the Hippies in the TOS episode The Way to Eden. Mädchen Amick. She was in one TNG episode in 1989 and then became famous as Shelly in Twin Peaks, currently can be seen as Alice in Riverdale. Kristanna Loken. One VOY episode in 1997, now mostly known as the T-X in Terminator 3.
The Late Charles Napier also played the bombastic Army General in the DS9 episode "Little Green Men" (the Roswell incident took place just before the formation of the USAF on 7/18/1947, so LTG Denning would be in the US Army Air Forces. At his rank, he'd command a numbered Air Force, which, since the base was then known as Walker Army Air Base, the Second Air Force as part of the USAAF Continental Command) who doesn't like Quark, as he reminded the general of his brother-in-law, a somewhat unsuccessful car salesman.
His first non-wrestling credit was as his father in That '70s Show. Voyager appears to either be his 4th or 5th acting credit. This depends on if he hosted SNL before or after his cameo on Voyager. (Edit) It was his 4th.
Teri Garr,from Assignment Earth episode, went on to Close Encounters of the 3rd kind, Marriette Hartley in All Our Yesterdays appeared in M.A.S.H. and Barnaby Jones.
Looking through the comments there are a few good mentions but a lot of the names being tossed out were already stars of some capacity before appearing on Trek. Joan Colins for example, Kim Catrell was already well on her way with a strong resume in the 80s including Police Acadamy, Big trouble in little China and Bonfire of the Vanities when she starred in Trek.
This was one of your more interesting videos with some fascinating stories for the various actors. Looks like there are enough for a part 2 of this one!
Another name would be Merritt Butrick. He was virtually an unknown when he played Kirk's son is ST II and later reprised the role in ST III. He later appeared as T'Jon, the captain of a cargo vessel rescued by the crew of the Enterprise in "Symbiosis" (1988), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He died when he was only 29.
This was supposed to be before they were known. Joan Collins had been in the movies since the 50's and Lee Meriwether had already starred in The Time Tunnel .
I also like surprising people by telling them that Thor, Chris Hemsworth, played George Kirk in the 2009 Star Trek remake. and to be fair He does look like he could be James T Kirks dad in it.
You showed Ken Jenkins in the beginning but he is not a part of the list tho. He played Bob Kelso in Scrubs for 175 episodes. IMO thats worth mentioning him in the list.
Honorable mention to the most interesting Red-Shirt who did not die: Jonathan Goldsmith, best known as being "The Most Interesting Man in the World" beer commercials, was an un-named 'red-shirt' in "The Corbomite Maneuver" As always thank you so very much for the video. And also honorable mention to the great Lucille Ball, who never appeared in the show, but was a significant part of the show behind the scenes, and is known as Star Trek's "God-Mother". (For good reason.)
I have always considered Lucille Ball the Godmother of Star Trek - because she gave a chance with her studio Desi-Lu Studios to try out a unknown show to have a 2nd chance after she helped hoodwink ? the TV executives who wanted a 2nd pilot.
Not quite. Goldsmith auditioned for a role, but he did not get it. He has confirmed that he made no appearance on Star Trek (with some cheeky qualification): "Let me set the record straight... I have never appeared on Star Trek, if I remember correctly that is, which is always dubious."
@@Caidoe_Esthov sincerely, thank you! I enjoy trivia, and I try to remember to fact-check everything, but I do make mistakes, and I make it a policy to always appreciate being corrected, and it appears I was wrong.
All of this and forgetting Patrick Stewart that truly became one of the best actors in Hollywood with the whole XMen franchise. He wasn’t that known before Star Trek
Kathryn Hays, the actress who played Gem in the original series episode "The Empath" would go on to play Kim Hughes / Kim Stewart / Kim Andropoulos on the Soap Opera 'As The World Turns" from 1972 - 2010. She passed away earlier this year in 2022 at age 87.
Clint Howard also starred in Gentle Ben in the late '60s/early '70s. It was the story of a black bear (Ben) befriending a little boy. I loved it as a kid!
Honorable mention: Also appearing in the same episode as Terri Hatcher was Billy Campbell, who went on to appear as Cliff Secord/The Rocketeer and has had an impressive run of credits since. Not sure how much his Star Trek appearance propelled him, as he had recurring roles on at least two series before appearing on Star Trek, but it's a fun bit of trivia.
Many of Teri Hatcher's scenes were also cut out of the Bond movie. No mention of Mad Max with Tom Hardy? Thanks for these additional information about Gabrielle Union and Ashley Judd
Sad part is, everyone in Hollywood was completely aware of Weinstein's sexual proclivities, and yet allowed it to go on for decades. I remember a host of the Oscar's making a joke during one of the telecasts back in the early '00's about the best thing about winning the best actress award was that it meant the recipient would no longer have to pretend Weinstein was handsome. Kind of fits right in with their continued love for Roman Polanski, who of course escaped our country back in the early 70's after being found guilty of drugging and raping (including sodomy) a 13 year old girl after luring her to Jack Nicholson's mansion for a "photo shoot". The hollywood elite are nothing but a bunch of degenerate hypocrites.
No mention of Deidrich Bader showing up at Tactical in TNGs "The Emissary"? Come on, you can't forget Oswald from the Drew Carey show and the voice of Batman in Batman the Brave and the Bold!
@@ExtremeEgg80 "Shades of Grey" stands alone as being the bare minimum that could be done to satisfy the contractual requirements of an episode. But I think most everybody rates "Code of Honor" at the bottom of the "real" episodes. I'd also put "Sub Rosa," "Homeward," "Dark Page," "Cost of Living," "Menage a Troi," "Manhunt," "The Royale," and "Angel One" as worse than "Okona." And another half dozen or so that aren't clearly better. Okona is a bad episode, but it doesn't go out of its way to be offensive. And yes, three of those are Lwaxana episodes.
This video is making me want one featuring ST guest stars who were better known for their voiceover roles. For example: Alan Oppenheimer - appeared in TNG Rightful Heir (among others), best known as Skeletor on He-Man and Falkor in Neverending Story Michael Bell - appeared in TNG Encounter at Farpoint, best known as Duke in GIJoe Chris Collins AKA Chris Latta - appeared in TNG Samaritan Snare (among others), best known as Cobra Commander on GIJoe and Starscream on Transformers Paul Eiding, Michael Ansara…there’s a ton of choices.
I thought Diedrich Bader would be on this list as he played a security officer in the second season episode The Emissary. He has been in so many movies and TV shows in the past 30 years. While not an A- list celebrity he is very recognizable.
Not sure if anyone knows this but Johnathan frakes , Brent Spiner & John de lancie all appeared together in an episode of Twilight Zone series from the 80’s. The episode was called "Dead Run".
Fantastic video! Well done! Quite a few surprises, and whoa... one heck of a trip down memory lane. I'd love to see a companion video of famous-at-the-time stars who appeared in Star Trek (if you haven't published one already). Obviously Ricardo Montalban would top the list, but two of my favorites are Kim Cattrall and Christopher Plummer.
You forgot Leland Orser This guy not only bridged every version of Star Trek, he also has credits for so many awesome movies Seven, Independence Day, Bone Collector, Pearl Harbour, Taken (trilogy), Dare Devil, Alien Resurrection, Saving Private Ryan......in my eyes, this guy is up for a lifetime achievement award, not a super star but a damn fine actor....P.S. if your thinking Independence Day?....he's not in it! You can see him in the Autopsy scene with Brent Spinner ( a life long friend) but his speaking scene was cut....his name is in the Credits
I believe she had appeared in a recurring role in Monk previously, and I think Evolution was before her appearance in Voyager. I actually liked her character Rayne, and that is still perhaps my favorite two parter in the show, although they had the introduction of Seven and the Nazi holodeck two part episodes that were great as well. And Sarah was also already an accomplished and well regarded comic on the standup circuit by then. I think she had guest hosted a late-night talk show or two, and I don't know if her hosting of SNL was before or after her appearance on Voyager. I know this probably didn't clear anything up, but that's the best I have.
@@rossiaconis242 IMDB didn't help much, unless these actors names are spelled wrong or I just didn't look properly... all I could find was... Chris Violette Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series) Britch Weeton - The Wolf Inside (2018) ... Britch Weeton - Despite Yourself (2018) ... Britch Weeton - Battle at the Binary Stars (2017) ... Britch Weeton - The Vulcan Hello (2017) ... Britch Weeton
@@rossiaconis242 Hilary Shepard Turner was in Power rangers Turbo the film as the villain and the 2nd half of the series (due to having a baby) she played Lauren in Ds9 one of the geneticly engineered
He was already sort of an established character actor before his two TNG appearances, but Mike Hagerty would go on to perhaps be best known as Mr. Traeger on Friends. He just died in May -- with Paul Sorvino and David Warner just passing, it hasn't been a good year for TNG guest stars ...
Love that shot of Adam & Brie looming over Sean’s shoulders. 🖖 Ashley Judd’s Ensign Robin Lefler was later the Ops Manager of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun’s USS Excalibur NCC 26517 in Peter David’s Star Trek: New Frontier novels. Speaking of Superman: The Adventures of Lois and Clark, I remember seeing Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr./Capt. William T. Riker) as a guest star. I think future Starsky and Hutch star David Soul was in a Classic Trek episode.
I swear to God I'm blown away I thought this was going to be a list of folks that I've already known about and I actually don't know a great deal about anything this is an incredibly informative video well done brother. I can't believe all of these people were in some of my favorite shows to this day and I didn't notice Gabrielle Union? Are you kidding me?
That would be great to see that on "Picard" - Jean Luc first sees her and says "CAPTAIN Lefler? Why I remember when you were one of the most ambitious ensigns in the fleet!"
I guess Billy Campbell who played opposite Teri Hatcher never became famous enough for most people to recognize, but having grown up watching The Rocketeer on repeat and also being a huge fan of The 4400, I certainly was delighted to discover his Star Trek TNG roots.
@@martyklestadt6766 I did a really nice Stereoscopic 3D portrait of Terri Garr from that episode. It's on the web and appears as a side by side image. 3D Terri Garr So young!
Shout-out to *Jeffrey Combs* who plays half the cast of Star Trek right under our noses...
Shits that is true
So true, it's remarkable how he is able to be so different that you have to look hard to realuse it's actually him. The great performance and sense of humour is always there.
He's one of my hands down favorite actors across the series's. He's such a multi-faceted actor!
and Vaughn Armstrong
Iggy Pop as a sarcastic vorta in DS9 is a personal favourite
That was a really good one.
Funny you mentioned Famke Janssen from X-men. The guy who played Professor Charles Xavier, in that same film, got his big break playing a recurring role in TNG.
The most amazing thing for me is the appearance of the prince Abdallah of Jordan (now king of Jordan) in Voyager. I mean, yes, all these guests are great, but having a real king is something extraordinary
yeah, truly extraordinary. 🤑🤑🤑🤑
Here’s a fun and off the wall one, TNG was the first time Stephen Hawking guest starred on a fictional TV show as himself. He would go on to do it on The Simpsons, Futurama, The Big Bang Theory, and Stargate: Atlantis. But TNG was the first 😎
Boom Shaklaka!
Hawking is also the only person to play himself on Star Trek.
The blonde number 5; she has the boobs mournings or so what ?
@@jeremycraft8452 I was about to say "Hold on, what about...?"
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but then I remembered that The Orville is not Star Trek.
@@jeremycraft8452 The actor that played Stephen was awesome. Looked just like him.
James Cromwell had small roles in both TNG and DS9. The latter was in 1995, the same year he hit the big time with Babe, and the next year he was one of the stars of ST:First Contact as Zefram Cochran, inventor of Warp travel.
James Cromwell had already done quite a few other roles. Back in the 70's, he was Archie Bunker's pal Jerome "Stretch" Cunningham, who dies suddenly in 1976, and, at his funeral, Archie finds out that he was Jewish.
@@selfdo Archie's eulogy for Stretch is one of the most famous moments of All in the Family.
A young Sarah Silverman was in an episode of Star Trek Voyager back in the late 90s
Watching Ashley Judd's bit, it makes me wish there was something we could do now for all the careers Weinstein ruined/or/delayed. It is so unfair.
That bit made me sad too.
I read also, that she denied playing in the role for a long time.
Nobody kept them there by force, they could have left at any time. They decided it was worth it.
@@dacsus That's tantamount to victim blaming.
@@mischarowe If you voluntarily semi-participate in something, just for the sake of money, you are not a victim.
A couple other ones for a future list:
-Colm Meaney, sure he was a cast member, but his career really took off from playing everyone’s favorite Chief as a guest star on TNG
-Sally Kellerman, Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in TOS was one of her early roles
-Gary Lockwood, in the same TOS episode of Kellerman it was also an early role for him, and before his most famous role in 2001 A Space Odyssey.
-Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, yes he was already a famous wrestler, but the Pendari Champion was one of his first acting roles
-John Larroquette, Night Court was just starting when he appeared in Star Trek III
-Miguel Ferrer was also not well known when he appeared in Star Trek III
@Pumpkin Spice yup Christopher Lloyd's first officer
@Pumpkin Spice Yep. He’s the one who tells Kirk he does not deserve to live and then Kirk says he’ll kill him later. I think his name is Maltz in the movie.
HUH, Gary Mitchell = Frank Poole... never even made that connection 😲 learn something new every day on this channel ;)
The Rock only got that role to promote Smackdown (which was new at the time) because both shows were on the same network.
@@47ness5 I've met and had two long conversations with Gary Lockwood at two Star Trek Las Vegas conventions pre-Covid. I'm old enough to remember him in the lead of "The Lieutenant", a series developed by Roddenberry pre-ST. I was only about 7, but I had a crush on him. I also noted him in "2001." We had a lot to talk about and found out we shared a connection to the University of Michigan.
Seth MacFarlane played Ensign Rivers in Enterprise, 2004 & 2005. Obviously, he was already famous for Family Guy and many other projects, but I think the character he played was only his second live action one (he was in an episode of Gilmore Girls first).
And now he has his own ship. And Sisco’s wife is his doctor
@@artembentsionov and counselor Troi teaches the kids.
@@Absbabs88 and Bruce Willis is a talking plant
Haha, gotta admit, "Never has an officer scanned the solar system for another starship coming in as hard as this young man" got a laugh out of me.
Kurtwood Smith one of the stars in That 70’s Show TV Series played the unnamed, targeted-for-assassination Federation President in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; Thrax, the Cardassian security officer, in the Deep Space Nine episode “Things Past,” and the Krenim temporal scientist Annorax in the Voyager two-parter, “Year of Hell.” And While we know Kelsey Grammer played a role in Star Trek his on TV wife Lilith from Cheers Bebe Neuwirth plays a nerdy, excitable alien doctor Lanel opposite Riker in First Contact too
I _love_ that you pixelated out the “Vulcan fingering” 🖖😂
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@@Kondrad or as the dirtier minded V'tosh ka'tur crudely refer to it, Paper Scissors Fu…actually I don’t think I should finish that sentence.
I was coming to ask about this, what was that all about? Was it meant as a joke? 🤔⁉️
@@FranOfTheDead yeah, that scene in Star Trek III with the finger stroking is basically some intense Vulcan foreplay. Means very little to us human viewers, but would be considered quite explicit by the Vulcans.
Here's a deep cut for you - Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac played one of the Antedian dignitaries in TNG season 2 episode Manhunt 😉
Honorable mention to Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman, Voyager) who went on to star as Kyra on "Reba."
Ashley Judd was such a great choice both for being cast in TNG and as number 1 on this list... seeing that clip of her brought back all the coming of age feels and the big crush I had in her back in the day... ☺️🤓👍🏽
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ofcourse in Voyagers Tsunkatse episode it was his first acting role.😉
I'd say being a WWE wrestler is pretty much acting.
Well his first acting role was when he was the Rock the wrestler
Christian Slater is probably worth mentioning in a list like this. He was in a brief scene in Star Trek VI.
He was already a massive star at that point.
He was already a star, his mother was a producer, hence his cameo.
@@megatronjenkins2473 his mother was the casting director, but she was absolutely why he was involved.
The incredibly prolific actor Stephen Root ("Office Space, "Barry") played a Klingon in an episode of ST:TNG.
Aka Bill Dauterive
This is the correct answer.
Teri Garr had a pretty good career after Assignment: Earth.
Michael Zaslow (The Man Trap--Ensign Darnell) had a very long career as a Soap star.
*true...i mean she would eventually go on to marry Snake Plisskin/Jack Burton and achieve a very high ranking of geekdom cred as a result*
@@scottmantooth8785 Not to mention that little movie called "Young Frankenstein."
@@Chuck_Hooks *oh, yeah, forgot about that one...such a brilliant and timeless role*
@@Chuck_Hooks Yes. What knockers.
@@sgtjarhead99 I always wanted to know where that somewhat larger star-shaped mark was on her body.
That pixilation killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Autumn Reeser - Star Trek: Voyager - Episode: "Natural Law"
Thomas Dekker - Star Trek: Voyager - Episode 1.16: "Learning Curve"
Episode 2.08: "Persistence of Vision" & Star Trek Generations
Sarah Silverman - Star Trek: Voyager - ("Future's End")
I was surprised Chris Hemsworth wasn’t on the list. I think that the role of George Kirk in Star Trek was his first role outside of Australia.
I am also pretty sure that one of Sarah Silverman’s first roles was as Rain Robinson in the Star Trek Voyager two parter Future’s End.
I’m not sure if Neal McDonough was well known or how many roles he had before Lt Hawk in First Contact so I don’t know if he counts or not.
Same goes for Daniel Dae Kim and his Voyager and Enterprise guest roles.
yeah, surprised Sarah didn't make the list
Danial Dae Kim was in Trek? What episodes? I guess it's hard to recognize someone that you've only really ever seen wearing shades and brandishing a hunting knife in each hand.
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Star Trek Voyager S06E12 Blink of an Eye: The alien male astronaut
Enterprise as one of the M.A.C.O. in: S03E01 The Xindi, S03E03 Extinction & S03E17 Hatchery.
There was actually a book that focused on Lt. Hawk. It was framed as Picard recalling the story after Hawk’s assimilation and death. According to the book, Hawk was gay. His husband would be angry at Picard and Worf for killing him instead of trying to reverse the assimilation the way it was done for Picard. But the story was about an attempt to recruit Hawk for a certain secretive organization. Hawk did the right thing and refused
Sarah who??????
Don't forget Tony Todd. He was Worf's brother on TNG. After that his roles in movie's and TV got bigger in the 90's. He also returned several times to Trek, notably in DS9 as worf's brother again, and also as a future Jake Sisko.
He is such a great actor. Played a great klingon
He also played one of the Hirogens in Voyager IIRC
@@EvilGav you're absolutely right. I forget about that.
Fun fact: both sons of Mogh voiced masked villains in the Arrowverse, with their unmasked voices being entirely different
Teri Hatcher's journey actually begins with MacGyver as Penny Parker.
And let's not forget her appearance on Seinfeld.
@@martyklestadt6766 They are spectacular.
or even on Love Boat as one of the regularly appearing dance acts named "Singing mermaids"
Teri also did a Canadian B movie called The Cool Surface. Even the very hot sex scenes could not save it from being a bad movie, so bad that it was shelved until Lois & Clark came out and the producers figured that they could make a few bucks on her new fame by releasing the movie directly to video.
@@ronald3419 Trying to shake off the Penny Parker-image, she also did a leading role in "Brainsmasher", which is as bad as you might expect from the title, so that it became a niche cult, and a minor role in "The big picture", which is quite good.
What about David Soul?, you really overlooked him. He was in the episode "The Apple" of the second TOS season, which was one of his first TV roles. He then achieved real cult and global fame in the 70s series "Starsky & Hutch".
Colm Meany played an uncredited role as a "red shirt" in TNG's first series way before he became famous as Miles O'Brien...
@@darransykes3406 I do not think Meanie counts as he became famous because of Trek not after an early appearance on it somewhere else.
@@darransykes3406 but in the last episode of TNG this red shirt has become offical Miles.
@Joseph B. Henry - Don’t forget his hit “Don’t Give Up On Us Baby.”
@@imkluu I think he can be counted as he has got a role in Under Siege with Steven Seagal.
Ok, I laughed at the pixelation of Saavik and young Spock's hands.
Yeah, that made absolutely no sense lol
Jolene Blalock played on an episode of Kirstie's "Veronica's Closet". Two former Vulcan ladies on one show together.
Really? Wow!
Sarah Silverman.
Star Trek Voyager
Futures End!
Also props to the editor for one of the best edited trek culture videos yet.
You're welcome 👍
Hardy's performance made me add his IMDB page to the very small list of actors on my must-see list. Brilliant!!!
Charles Napier. He played one of the Hippies in the TOS episode The Way to Eden.
Mädchen Amick. She was in one TNG episode in 1989 and then became famous as Shelly in Twin Peaks, currently can be seen as Alice in Riverdale.
Kristanna Loken. One VOY episode in 1997, now mostly known as the T-X in Terminator 3.
I know Amick from Sleepwalkers.
The Late Charles Napier also played the bombastic Army General in the DS9 episode "Little Green Men" (the Roswell incident took place just before the formation of the USAF on 7/18/1947, so LTG Denning would be in the US Army Air Forces. At his rank, he'd command a numbered Air Force, which, since the base was then known as Walker Army Air Base, the Second Air Force as part of the USAAF Continental Command) who doesn't like Quark, as he reminded the general of his brother-in-law, a somewhat unsuccessful car salesman.
Dwayne Johnson. I’m pretty sure his seemingly forced cameo on Voyager was his first “non-wrestling” role in TV or film.
His first non-wrestling credit was as his father in That '70s Show. Voyager appears to either be his 4th or 5th acting credit. This depends on if he hosted SNL before or after his cameo on Voyager.
(Edit) It was his 4th.
@@silversonic1 You’re right. It was his 3rd. I just looked it up. I still think he belongs on this list.
He was a star by then anyway
@@KalEL224 Not a movie star. Scorpion King was his first big role.
@@madrabbit9007 he was already a star. There is a reason he was chosen for the mummy 2 and Star Trek.
Teri Garr,from Assignment Earth episode, went on to Close Encounters of the 3rd kind, Marriette Hartley in All Our Yesterdays appeared in M.A.S.H. and Barnaby Jones.
7:10 - I'm glad you made this scene "family friendly".
:)
Wow, so Famke was that lady. Such a great episode for Picard...
Looking through the comments there are a few good mentions but a lot of the names being tossed out were already stars of some capacity before appearing on Trek. Joan Colins for example, Kim Catrell was already well on her way with a strong resume in the 80s including Police Acadamy, Big trouble in little China and Bonfire of the Vanities when she starred in Trek.
This was one of your more interesting videos with some fascinating stories for the various actors. Looks like there are enough for a part 2 of this one!
Sean is fantastic
Another name would be Merritt Butrick. He was virtually an unknown when he played Kirk's son is ST II and later reprised the role in ST III. He later appeared as T'Jon, the captain of a cargo vessel rescued by the crew of the Enterprise in "Symbiosis" (1988), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He died when he was only 29.
What did he die of? Do you know?
@@HoldenNY22 Butrick died of toxoplasmosis, complicated by AIDS, on March 17, 1989, at the age of 29
Thanks for the Trip down memory lane! Great Video!
Christian Slater, Seth MacFarland were also on Voyager and Enterprise, respectively.
Slater was also briefly in ST6.
From the original series: Mariette Hartley, Teri Garr, Lee Meriwether, Joan Collins, Sally Kellerman, David Soul & John Astin
This was supposed to be before they were known. Joan Collins had been in the movies since the 50's and Lee Meriwether had already starred in The Time Tunnel .
Fun fact: almost All of these actors first was in Quantum leap....or macgyver
I also like surprising people by telling them that Thor, Chris Hemsworth, played George Kirk in the 2009 Star Trek remake. and to be fair He does look like he could be James T Kirks dad in it.
I had no idea Kirsten Dunst was in Star Trek!
You showed Ken Jenkins in the beginning but he is not a part of the list tho. He played Bob Kelso in Scrubs for 175 episodes. IMO thats worth mentioning him in the list.
Who has two thumbs and doesn't give a crap? Sean apparently.
Scrubs ran for 175 episodes? Yikes.
For anyone interested, next month _Star Trek II_ will be back in theaters (director's cut) as one of the Fathom Events films.
Honorable mention to the most interesting Red-Shirt who did not die: Jonathan Goldsmith, best known as being "The Most Interesting Man in the World" beer commercials, was an un-named 'red-shirt' in "The Corbomite Maneuver"
As always thank you so very much for the video.
And also honorable mention to the great Lucille Ball, who never appeared in the show, but was a significant part of the show behind the scenes, and is known as Star Trek's "God-Mother". (For good reason.)
I have always considered Lucille Ball the Godmother of Star Trek - because she gave a chance with her studio Desi-Lu Studios to try out a unknown show to have a 2nd chance after she helped hoodwink ? the TV executives who wanted a 2nd pilot.
Not quite. Goldsmith auditioned for a role, but he did not get it. He has confirmed that he made no appearance on Star Trek (with some cheeky qualification): "Let me set the record straight... I have never appeared on Star Trek, if I remember correctly that is, which is always dubious."
@@Caidoe_Esthov sincerely, thank you! I enjoy trivia, and I try to remember to fact-check everything, but I do make mistakes, and I make it a policy to always appreciate being corrected, and it appears I was wrong.
Teri Garr Assignment: Earth, ToS. One of their best episodes btw. She was a fairly big star in the 70's & 80's.
All of this and forgetting Patrick Stewart that truly became one of the best actors in Hollywood with the whole XMen franchise. He wasn’t that known before Star Trek
He was in Excalibur
Thank god someone else remembers California Dreams and it wasn't just a 90s fever dream I had
perhaps a "Trek Actors whom appeared on 7th Heaven" would be awesome (for my wife)
I love Parks and Rec, and I've seen ST:FC so many times that I can't believe I didn't recognize him.
I watch TOS-Enterprise over and over again and I keep telling so many people a ton of stars got their break and started off in Star Trek.
Kathryn Hays, the actress who played Gem in the original series episode "The Empath" would go on to play Kim Hughes / Kim Stewart / Kim Andropoulos on the Soap Opera 'As The World Turns" from 1972 - 2010. She passed away earlier this year in 2022 at age 87.
Mädchen Amick had an end-credit role as a shape shifter on a second or third season episode of TNG.
Forget Tom Hardy's film success, let's have a round of applause for overcoming substance abuse and putting himself back together!
Amen!
yeah he didn't even mention Mad Max, which I thought was a great film.
No kidding...I mean, I knew Nemesis was bad, but it was so bad it sent a guy into rehab? Daaaaaaaamn.
She was already a name from the movie La Bamba, Virginia Madsen was on Voyager.
Clint Howard also starred in Gentle Ben in the late '60s/early '70s. It was the story of a black bear (Ben) befriending a little boy. I loved it as a kid!
There was a movie on which the series was based, called Gentle Giant, also with Howard.
I can't believe I remembered that the split second I read it.
Honorable mention: Also appearing in the same episode as Terri Hatcher was Billy Campbell, who went on to appear as Cliff Secord/The Rocketeer and has had an impressive run of credits since.
Not sure how much his Star Trek appearance propelled him, as he had recurring roles on at least two series before appearing on Star Trek, but it's a fun bit of trivia.
Seth McFarlane on Enterprise made me smile.
Probably made him smile too!
I think Robert Knepper also appeared - twice - in TNG, first season in "Haven" and in "Voyager", sixth season in "Dragon's Teeth"
Kim Cattrall should be mentioned as part of the cast in Star Trek VI.
She was already known before that thanks to Porky's
7:54 OK, Jumanji's "Like and Subscribe" is the best Like and Subscribe I have ever seen!
Many of Teri Hatcher's scenes were also cut out of the Bond movie.
No mention of Mad Max with Tom Hardy?
Thanks for these additional information about Gabrielle Union and Ashley Judd
Sad part is, everyone in Hollywood was completely aware of Weinstein's sexual proclivities, and yet allowed it to go on for decades. I remember a host of the Oscar's making a joke during one of the telecasts back in the early '00's about the best thing about winning the best actress award was that it meant the recipient would no longer have to pretend Weinstein was handsome.
Kind of fits right in with their continued love for Roman Polanski, who of course escaped our country back in the early 70's after being found guilty of drugging and raping (including sodomy) a 13 year old girl after luring her to Jack Nicholson's mansion for a "photo shoot".
The hollywood elite are nothing but a bunch of degenerate hypocrites.
Shinzon always reminds me of young dr evil
They are similar.
Both are bald
Have a scar
Their own space base and legion of soliders
Both have clone based storylines
Very true but have you seen the flashback scenes in goldmember, they literally look like they could be brothers
Actor that played Professor Moriarty, cool episodes. He went on to the butler in The Nanny.
No mention of Deidrich Bader showing up at Tactical in TNGs "The Emissary"? Come on, you can't forget Oswald from the Drew Carey show and the voice of Batman in Batman the Brave and the Bold!
He also voices Batman in Harley Quinn.
"The Outrageous Okana" was one of TNG's top 175 episodes.
What two episodes aren't on that list, or are you counting the pilot and finale as single episodes instead of two parters like they normally are?
@@ExtremeEgg80 There were about 3-5 episodes worse than Okana.
Okona and Vic Fontaine are two of my favourite characters.
Vic is awesome. Billy Campell played the part well, but it was written poorly. It could have been done much better.
@@ExtremeEgg80 "Shades of Grey" stands alone as being the bare minimum that could be done to satisfy the contractual requirements of an episode. But I think most everybody rates "Code of Honor" at the bottom of the "real" episodes.
I'd also put "Sub Rosa," "Homeward," "Dark Page," "Cost of Living," "Menage a Troi," "Manhunt," "The Royale," and "Angel One" as worse than "Okona." And another half dozen or so that aren't clearly better. Okona is a bad episode, but it doesn't go out of its way to be offensive. And yes, three of those are Lwaxana episodes.
This video is making me want one featuring ST guest stars who were better known for their voiceover roles. For example:
Alan Oppenheimer - appeared in TNG Rightful Heir (among others), best known as Skeletor on He-Man and Falkor in Neverending Story
Michael Bell - appeared in TNG Encounter at Farpoint, best known as Duke in GIJoe
Chris Collins AKA Chris Latta - appeared in TNG Samaritan Snare (among others), best known as Cobra Commander on GIJoe and Starscream on Transformers
Paul Eiding, Michael Ansara…there’s a ton of choices.
Mae C. Jemison the only Nasa astronaut, I believe, to appear in Star Trek.
Mike Fincke and Terry Virts were in an episode of Enterprise.
She was the first
Space Faring Civilization She was the first
I thought Diedrich Bader would be on this list as he played a security officer in the second season episode The Emissary. He has been in so many movies and TV shows in the past 30 years. While not an A- list celebrity he is very recognizable.
I was waiting for him as well, but alas.
He's hilarious on Twitter, if you don't already follow him
I’d say his voice is more recognizable as Batman. Almost as much as Kevin Conroy’s
I remember when he was on Drew Carey and being surprised he was on TNG during a re-watch.
Anne Ramsay, who would play Lisa on Mad About You and also was in A League of Their Own, also appeared in that episode
Also liked some cameo appearances by celebrity ST fans. Prince of Saudi Arabia, and prof. Mae Jemison who operated the transporter.
Not sure if anyone knows this but Johnathan frakes , Brent Spiner & John de lancie all appeared together in an episode of Twilight Zone series from the 80’s. The episode was called "Dead Run".
Didn't realize Adam Scott was the Defiant's helmsman in First Contact 🤯
Thank you from Ukraine for your support.
I had a mad crush on Robyn Lefler back then.
I recall Raymond Cruz & Jonathan Banks appearing in some standalone DS9 eps.
Fantastic video! Well done! Quite a few surprises, and whoa... one heck of a trip down memory lane. I'd love to see a companion video of famous-at-the-time stars who appeared in Star Trek (if you haven't published one already). Obviously Ricardo Montalban would top the list, but two of my favorites are Kim Cattrall and Christopher Plummer.
You forgot Leland Orser
This guy not only bridged every version of Star Trek, he also has credits for so many awesome movies
Seven, Independence Day, Bone Collector, Pearl Harbour, Taken (trilogy), Dare Devil, Alien Resurrection, Saving Private Ryan......in my eyes, this guy is up for a lifetime achievement award, not a super star but a damn fine actor....P.S. if your thinking Independence Day?....he's not in it!
You can see him in the Autopsy scene with Brent Spinner ( a life long friend) but his speaking scene was cut....his name is in the Credits
My dad was watching Star Trek last summmer while we were on vacation. By my surprise, I saw Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis).
I'm hoping we'll see Robin Leffler again. Maybe on Lower Decks?
What about Neal McDonough in First Contact? Got a pretty decent carreer after that
He’s one of the best supervillains on TV. Or at least one who has the most fun being evil
I was just watching Voyager for the 1st time and I was surprised to see Sarah Silverman pop up. Was that before or after she was getting well known?
I believe she had appeared in a recurring role in Monk previously, and I think Evolution was before her appearance in Voyager. I actually liked her character Rayne, and that is still perhaps my favorite two parter in the show, although they had the introduction of Seven and the Nazi holodeck two part episodes that were great as well. And Sarah was also already an accomplished and well regarded comic on the standup circuit by then. I think she had guest hosted a late-night talk show or two, and I don't know if her hosting of SNL was before or after her appearance on Voyager. I know this probably didn't clear anything up, but that's the best I have.
"I envy you, taking these first steps into a new frontier."
Charles Napier and Fred Williamson were in TOS.
It was weird seeing Jill Ireland in TOS without Charles Bronson by her side.
Wonder investigation and looking all complete truth.
One of the best I see on RUclips the last 10 jears..
Bravro
I knew about most of these, but I had no idea Nikki Cox was the girl in "Pen Pals" 😆
Her name is in the credits at the beginning of the episode...
@@johnmorris7735 Yes, because when I rewatch a 30-year episode, I always pay REAL CLOSE ATTENTION to the credits 🙄
Looks like you may need a part 2 Sean :-)
I really enjoyed this. Lot of work went into it. Thanks
Clint Howard was also a Klingon in Star Trek: The Motion Picture…amazing.
Nice! A few "Power Rangers" stars were in "Star Trek" as well, including Hilary Turner, Jack Guzman and Chris Violette.
That's interesting. Do you happen to know which series they appeared in? I'm a PR fan myself and would like to check out those episodes.
@@rossiaconis242 IMDB didn't help much, unless these actors names are spelled wrong or I just didn't look properly... all I could find was... Chris Violette
Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)
Britch Weeton
- The Wolf Inside (2018) ... Britch Weeton
- Despite Yourself (2018) ... Britch Weeton
- Battle at the Binary Stars (2017) ... Britch Weeton
- The Vulcan Hello (2017) ... Britch Weeton
@@rossiaconis242 Hilary Shepard Turner was in Power rangers Turbo the film as the villain and the 2nd half of the series (due to having a baby) she played Lauren in Ds9 one of the geneticly engineered
He was already sort of an established character actor before his two TNG appearances, but Mike Hagerty would go on to perhaps be best known as Mr. Traeger on Friends. He just died in May -- with Paul Sorvino and David Warner just passing, it hasn't been a good year for TNG guest stars ...
Jill Ireland as Leila Kalomi in TOS 'This Side of Paradise,' and Alfre Woodard as Lily in film 'First Contact.'
Love that shot of Adam & Brie looming over Sean’s shoulders. 🖖
Ashley Judd’s Ensign Robin Lefler was later the Ops Manager of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun’s USS Excalibur NCC 26517 in Peter David’s Star Trek: New Frontier novels.
Speaking of Superman: The Adventures of Lois and Clark, I remember seeing Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr./Capt. William T. Riker) as a guest star.
I think future Starsky and Hutch star David Soul was in a Classic Trek episode.
If you watch the video carefully, this is mentioned and shown with Lois & Clark. Frakes and Beltran are seen
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i laughed so hard
I swear to God I'm blown away I thought this was going to be a list of folks that I've already known about and I actually don't know a great deal about anything this is an incredibly informative video well done brother. I can't believe all of these people were in some of my favorite shows to this day and I didn't notice Gabrielle Union? Are you kidding me?
Well, she was younger and playing a Klingon...
David Soul from the TOS episode "The Apple". He went on to become Hutch in Starsky and Hutch.
I’ve always hoped they’d bring Ashley Judd back to reprise her role but as a Captain
That would be great to see that on "Picard" - Jean Luc first sees her and says "CAPTAIN Lefler? Why I remember when you were one of the most ambitious ensigns in the fleet!"
I guess Billy Campbell who played opposite Teri Hatcher never became famous enough for most people to recognize, but having grown up watching The Rocketeer on repeat and also being a huge fan of The 4400, I certainly was delighted to discover his Star Trek TNG roots.
I know he was already a famous musician, but who remembers Iggy Pop on DS9?
Like some of mentioned already, Terri Garr deserves to be on this list considering her body of work.
That's a biggie! Final episode. There was to be a spin off.
@@davidmacphee3549 Yes, there were plans for a spin off, but the episode she appeared in was not the final TOS episode.
@@martyklestadt6766 I did a really nice Stereoscopic 3D portrait of Terri Garr from that episode. It's on the web and appears as a side by side image.
3D Terri Garr So young!
@@martyklestadt6766 Very good! Terri was in the last episode of only the second season of the Original Series with Kirk and Spock.
Patrick Fabian (Howard Hamlin) did that Voyager episode where he lived on a planet of 90% and turned into a mummy near the end.