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No matter which part of the franchise , there ’s something theStar Trekproduction teams were always heavy at : bringing back doer they ’d already worked with for different roles . Merritt Butrick was Kirk ’s son David and T’Jon onThe Next Generation , Marc Alaimo was a Romulan onTNGbefore becoming Gul Dukat onDeep Space Nine , Suzie Plakson was Worf ’s loverK’Ehlayras well as a Vulcan , a Q , and an Andorian . The list go on , and it ’s a hatful longer than you ’d imagine .
For the role of keeping the list surprising , we ’re leaving out all the independent form members who look as unlike characters in other serial or movies . We ’ve made one elision for someone who was a regular cast extremity for one season , but already had a account with the original series . Feel costless to guess before scrolling down !
Some of these are no - brainers and some will hopefully give you that " who knew ? " sense of breakthrough . And speak ofDiscovery , countenance ’s hope we get to see a of these worker there , too ! Here are19 Actors Who toy Multiple Roles onStar Trek .
19. Tony Todd
Tony Todd is a horror motion-picture show veteran , particularly loved by fans as the title grapheme inCandymanand Ben inNight of the Living Dead . But he ’s also a heavy man in theStar Trekworld , having played three unlike characters in three different serial .
He ’s well known as Kurn , who was on bothStar Trek : The Next GenerationandDeep Space Nine . Kurn is Worf ’s brother , the other Logos of Mogh , and uncle to Alexander . He also played a grown - up Jake Sisko in the movingDS9episode " The Visitor , " where we inspect an alternate timeline in which Benjamin Sisko died young and Jake , now a writer , has never come to terminus with it . And in the end , in theVoyagerepisode " Prey , " he played a spite Hirogen determined to cover and down a extremity of Species 8472 that was open on the ship . Todd had already dealt with acute make - up as Kurn , but being a Hirogen meant over four hour of homework for both make - up and costume , and the need to know about any bathroom urge on a minimum of 20 second in rise .
He ’s still active on theStar Trekconvention circuit , and gave an interview in February sayinghe ’s on a possible casting list forStar Trek : Discovery .
18. Jeffrey Combs
If it looks like one ofJeffrey Combs ' characters is in there twice , that ’s because the one he play the most , a Vorta named Weyoun , was a clone , and we get word five different Weyouns duringDeep Space Nine ’s ravel . He merit two slots in the photo kitty .
Combs first auditioned to play Riker onTNG , and while he did n’t get the part , manufacturer obviously liked him because he has played seven different characters across three serial publication , come along in a grand total of 43 differentStar Trekepisodes . In picture lodge , so you may work along , he started as Tiron onDeep Space Nine , a client of Quark ’s , then played the greedy Ferengi Brunt . Weyoun # 4 was next , and he or one of his ringer remained a recurring quality for the residuum of the show ’s run . Then he was Kevin Mulkahey , on Earth in the 1950s , as part of a vision the Prophets gave to Sisko .
Then he moved over toVoyager , where he was Penk , who kidnapped Seven of Nine and made her conflict in the orbit against The Rock . Along cameStar Trek : Enterprise , and he became Shran , the Andorian commanding officer who tardily formed a friendship with Jonathan Archer . He also found himself in Ferengi make - up as Krem , reckon for gem on the Enterprise . Among all of these , he still say Weyoun was his favorite .
17. Diana Muldaur
fan who did n’t start watch over Trek untilThe Next Generationonly know her as Dr. Katherine Pulaski , the doctor who stepped in for a season in berth of Beverly Crusher . Once behind - the - shot issues were resolve , Crusher returned , and Pulaski was off on her next dangerous undertaking . But original Trek fans remember her as two pretty pivotal Edgar Guest stars .
The first was astrobiologist Ann Mulhall , who was summoned to a planet ’s hush-hush chamber with Kirk and Spock to countenance the aliens Sargon , Thalassa , and Henoch borrow their bodies for a trivial while . thing fit in the south apace , but in the lag , she got to have a few make - out Roger Huntington Sessions with Kirk , culminating in the moment when Sargon and Thalassa hand them their dead body back mid - bosom . Awkward !
The 2d wasDr . Miranda Jones , the blind char with the detector web who had studied genial discipline techniques on Vulcan and was traveling with Kollos , the Medusan embassador whose very appearance would drive humans mad if they caught a glimpse . Being blind had its America in this one , and her detector World Wide Web was the precursor to Geordi ’s VISOR .
16. Robert Knepper
It ’s operose to think that guy with the long course locks and the nice expression on his look is most famous asPrison Break ’s " T - Bag , " drawing card of the Aryan gang and paedophile . He was much , much nicer than that as Wyatt Miller on theTNGepisode " Haven . " Miller and Deanna Troi were think to get married , thanks to an arrangement by their parent , and both were uncoerced to go through with it despite their mutual belief of " meh " about the whole thing . Luckily , he find the true charwoman of his ambition instead , and Troi outride on the endeavour .
Knepper returned again inStar Trek : Voyager , this clock time playing a character with more bite . He was Gaul , a Vaadwaur who had pass over nine hundred years in stasis and add up out fighting . He offered to help Voyager find a subspace corridor that would geld years off their journeying household , but of trend , was secretly plan to take over the ship . If they ’d only watchedPrison relegate , they would ’ve seen it coming .
15. Penny Johnson Jerald
Penny Johnson Jerald was bothLarry Sanders ' assistant Beverly , who managed his ego and maintained her own non - show biz moral codification at the same time , and David Palmer ’s manipulating wife ( then x - married woman ) Sherry on24 . OnTNG , she played Dobara , Worf ’s sister - in - law , sort of . His brother Nikolai Rozhenko ( play by Paul Sorvino ) , designate to her planet as an observer , had fallen in love with her and they were about to have a shaver together , a monumental violation of the Prime Directive . But family ’s menage .
Her adult donation was as bottom captain Kassidy Yates , frequent visitor to DS9 . Jake Sisko set her up with his dad , and the two fell in love ( after the usual ups and Down , like Yates being sent to prison house for a while ) . They get married , and she got pregnant , which would have worked out nicely had Sisko not joined the Prophets at the Celestial Temple at the end of the serial .
Johnson Jerald did 15 episode as Yates , who was hopefully something of a foster mother to Jake after his father leave to go hang with the Prophets .
14. Paul Winfield
KHAAAAAN !
Paul Winfield , an actor with a long and impressive chronicle in photographic film and video ( including the firstTerminatormovie ) , first appeared in theStar Trekuniverse as Captain Clark Terrell inStar Trek II : The Wrath of Khan . He was Chekov ’s commanding policeman , and merit a much better fate than what he got : after his mind was taken over by one of Khan ’s crawly little pinna - slugs , he betrayed Kirk ( against his will ) and almost killed him . At the last second , despite the slug , he could n’t bring himself to fire on the Admiral , so he fool away himself alternatively .
He returned to Trek in one of the most memorable and repeatable of allTNGepisodes , " Darmok . " He ’s a Tamarian captain , and Tamarians only pass along through allegory . A shaky premise , but a wondrous episode , as he and Picard face a vicious beast together and had to learn how to talk to each other . “Darmok and Jilad at Tinagra,“is the struggle they fought , and we got more expectant inverted comma like"Temba , his arms open,“and"Shaka , when the wall fell,“before Winfield ’s fibre , Dathon , was killed .
13. Joseph Ruskin
Joseph Ruskin ’s distinctive voice will give you a jolt when you hear it bulge out out of all these unlike aliens ' mouths . A veteran of classic moving-picture show and TV shows , he first hitStar Trekin 1968 in " The Gamesters of Triskeilion . " He played the unforgettable Galt , the Master Thrall who control the pain collars worn by Kirk , Chekov , and Uhura .
Sharp capitulum would agnise him again in as the Klingon , Tumek , in two episodes ofDeep Space Nine , initially preside over Quark ’s involuntary wedding to the Klingon Grilka . He returned to the show later as Odo ’s Cardassian witness , learn only in the shadows , but again , straight off familiar once he speak . Next he wrench up on the fully grown screen inStar Trek : Insurrection , as a Son’a officeholder — one of the tough guys .
He made his fashion over toVoyagernext , playing a Vulcan original in one of Tuvok ’s flashbacks to his childhood . And eventually , he toy a Suliban doctor on the premier episode ofEnterprise , " Broken Bow . " The only show he missed wasTNG .
12. Casey Biggs
Casey Biggs , believe or not , play in a band with a bunch of otherStar Trekacting vets , and like them , he ’s played multiple role himself . The predominate one is Damar , the Cardassian military leader who served under Gul Dukat and eventually murdered his daughter , Ziyal . He led the Cardassians under the Dominion , then rebelled and led the rebellion against it . He was successful , in the end , although he died in the last few day of state of war , obliterate in mid - sentence .
He also appear in as Dr. Wykoff in a imagination of Benjamin Sisko ’s , again a villain as he attempt to kibosh Sisko from write the words that would unloose him from his vision and unlock the room access to a raw Orb of the Prophets .
And finally , he turn up onEnterpriseas an Illyrian skipper . Archer stole a warp coil from him , sentencing his ship to a much long journey home , and yes , Archer felt shamed about it , and yes , the Illyrian Captain was still SOL anyway .
11. Mark Lenard
Other than human , there are three prevalent specie across theStar Trekuniverse , and Mark Lenard played all of them .
He first appeared in the iconic original Trek instalment " Libra the Scales of Terror , " as a brilliant Romulan air force officer who equal wit , uprightly , with Captain Kirk . He was asked to come back and play Abraham Lincoln in " The Savage Curtain , " but he had a regular TV gig at the prison term and could n’t do it .
Most importantly , he was Sarek , Spock ’s father . We first go through him in the original serial ' " Journey to Babel , " and he come back as Sarek in the Animated Series , fourStar Trekmovies , and two episodes ofThe Next Generation .
WhenStar Trek : The Motion Picturecame up , he asked to come back as Sarek , but that did n’t fit into the be plot line . They still need him in there , so he played Klingon Captain whose ship was destroyed by the V’Ger probe .
Lenard conk out in 1996 , and was tributed in the 2009Star Trekreboot , when one of the Starfleet functionary presiding over James T. Kirk ’s hearing for cheating on the Kobiyashi Maru test was given the actor ’s name .
10. Carolyn Seymour
British actress Carolyn Seymour has played four differentStar Trekcharacters across five episode . We first interpret her as Sub - Commander Taris onTNG , a Romulan suspect of the Enterprise but in pauperism of their help . She then played Mirasta Yale , a Malcorian astronomer who was thrilled to discovery that extraterrestrial life existed when a " First Contact " mission from Riker went cockeyed . When her planet ’s drawing card admitted they were n’t ready for true contact , she left with the enterprisingness . Why her graphic symbol was never mentioned again , we do n’t know ; she would have had interesting stories to evidence . She donned Romulan ears once more as Commander Torth in " Face of the Enemy , " the sequence where Troi was kidnapped and altered to face Romulan .
She move over toVoyagernext , double playing Mrs. Templeton , a character in one of Janeway ’s lamer holo - novels . She was always a foil for Janeway , and made the stories featuring Lord Burleigh slightly more palatable with her sharp interpreter and withering aspect .
