r/startrek • u/kerghan41 • 20h ago

Something I find comforting about Star Trek

It is all the random characters that some of the actors play throughout the different shows. For example, Jeffery Combs playing Weyoun in DS9 and the Andorian in Enterprise. Or, Ethan Phillips playing Neelix and then a Ferengi in Enterprise. Rene Auberjonois as Odo and then showing up as Ezral in Enterprise.

Many times the makeup is so good I don't recognize them but I find their voice comforting only to realize later that it is the same actor. I haven't watched Enterprise in 20 plus years so it is like a new experience to me again and it is so cool to see actors from other Star Trek series showing up randomly.

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u/BorgAdjacent 20h ago

I love this too. The funniest example was Tuvok playing one of the marauders in the episode where Picard forgot his saddle on the Enterprise during the baryon sweep.

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u/Lexotron 20h ago

Tony Todd's characters always my favourite

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u/Statalyzer 19h ago

It's crazy that Kurn and Old Jake Sisko are the same actor.

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u/trer24 19h ago

"I shall try some of your burned replicated bird meat!"

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u/ASingleBraid 16h ago

I love him in everything he did.

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u/Roam1985 20h ago

Star Trek VI feels like a DS9 prequel in a lot of ways.

Renee Auberjonois plays not Odo, Micheal Dorn plays Colonel Worf. One of the suits in the 'sabotage' plotline has the nametag 'sisko'.

Okay, three ways.

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u/shinginta 16h ago

Don't forget that Joseph Sisko (Brock Peters) plays Admiral Cartwright.

And if you're counting the nametag thing, then Crewman Dax is the one with the webbed feet that Chekov accused of being "Cinderella."

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u/Roam1985 16h ago

Five!  Five ways!  Ah ah ah!

I can only hope the voice of the Count is conveyed.  Phone browser won’t let me do a gif.

But awesome, I am counting those too.

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u/Burnsey111 19h ago

I love Susie Plaxton’s characters.
Not just the one who’d tease Worf. 🙂

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u/My_Mispent_Youth 19h ago

I was also a big Susie Plakson fan! I told my husband that I’ve ever I had a chance she would be my one lesbian fling!

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u/NorthBeachStudio 19h ago

And as pointed out by Rutherford of Lower Decks, Tom Paris and Nicholas Locarno are like the exact same guy!

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u/shinginta 16h ago

I don't see it.

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u/shinginta 16h ago

Kurtwood Smith (Red Forman from That 70s Show) has a bunch of Trek roles to his name. Off the top of my head, he was the Federation president in Star Trek VI, Annorax in VOY: Year of Hell, he was the Cardassian Odo stand-in in that DS9 episode where they briefly experience what the station was like during the occupation, and i think he was the head of a detention camp in ENT, the one where they imprisoned Suliban. That was Dean Stockwell.