"Star Trek" Universe Guest Actors - Multiple Roles Quiz

Answer: Jeffrey Combs - Weyoun

Penk was the organizer of an MMA-style fighting area called tsunkatse. The Voyager's crew enjoy watching the fights until they see Seven of Nine as one of the fighters. It turns out Penk's fighters were not volunteers/pro-fighters, but rather captured hostages who were forced to fight, sometimes to the death. ("Star Trek: Voyager", episode "Tsunkatse")

Answer: Jeffrey Combs - Weyoun

Krem was a 22nd century Ferengi pirate. He worked on his cousin Ulis's ship, and was berated by his cousin and forced to do the menial work on their ship.

Ulis and his crew set up a Trojan Horse device that the NX-01 Enterprise found. Once on their ship, the device emitted a knockout gas that put the crew asleep for many hours (except for Commander Tucker, who was in isolation after returning from an away mission). While the crew was unconscious, Ulis and his crew began to strip the ship of valuables. In their greed, they woke Captain Archer to question him about the location of his vault. Archer, at first, denied the existence of a vault (the truth), then started to play the Ferengi and said there was one, but that he'd never reveal its location. Ulis assigned Krem to load their ship with the Enterprise's valuables, and told him to use Archer as a slave. While working for Krem, Archer planted seeds of dissent into Krem's mind.

After the Enterprise crew got the upper hand and re-took their ship, they bound Ulis and the other Ferengi on their ship except for Krem. They gave Krem a warning that they should not cause trouble in Starfleet or Vulcan-controlled space. He agreed, and then took off, piloting his cousin's ship for possibly the first time, ignoring his cousin's pleas to be let go.

("Star Trek: Enterprise", episode "Acquisition")

Answer: Vaughn Armstrong - Maxwell Forrest

Korris and his two cohorts (Konmel and K'Nera) are three fugitives fleeing the Klingon Empire. They feel that the Klingon race has grown soft, and they're looking for somewhere where they can live as true Klingons. They tempt Worf into leaving Starfleet and joining them on their quest. ("Star Trek: The Next Generation", episode "Heart of Glory")

Korris was the among the first Klingons (besides Worf) to appear on "Star Trek: The Next Generation". He and his cohorts help found a more robust canon of the Klingon race.

Answer: Vaughn Armstrong - Maxwell Forrest

Two of Nine (aka Lansor) was part of a group of nine Borg drones, including Seven of Nine, Voyager's former Borg crewmember.

Three of the members of this group (Two, Three, and Four of Nine) eventually escaped the Borg, but were joined unknowingly (at the time) in their own little sub-group. They kept hearing each other's thoughts, and couldn't discern their own identities. They eventually find the true reason for their sub-group, but they shortly all fall into comas.

Eventually, the Doctor finds a way to disconnect their sub-group, but it would shorten their lives to only a few more weeks or months; they would survive if they returned to the Borg. Seven convinces him that they would rather live a few months as individuals than return to forever as mindless drones. He performs the procedure on them, and they go their own way to explore the last of their lives.

("Star Trek: Voyager", episode "Survival Instinct")

Answer: J.G. Hertzler - Martok

Laas was a member of the Founders, one of 100 Changeling babies sent out into space to gather information about the Solids (non-Changeling races). Both he and Odo had apparently encountered the Bajoran Wormhole's Gamma Quadrant entrance and traversed to the Alpha Quadrant. Laas had landed on the planet Varala and lived amongst them since the 22nd century. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", episode "Chimera")

Answer: J.G. Hertzler - Martok

Roy Ritterhouse was a sketch artist who worked in a 1950s-era science fiction magazine, "Incredible Tales", within a Wormhole Prophets-induced hallucination in Captain Sisko's mind. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", episode "Far Beyond The Stars")

J.G. Hertzler, who portrayed Ritterhouse, quite enjoyed portraying him. He himself is an artist. While he didn't draw the sketches that were attributed to Ritterhouse, he did do his own sketches. "When I was sitting there drawing," Hertzler said, "I literally was drawing the cast."

Answer: Mark Lenard - Sarek

When the cloud-creature V'ger was moving through Klingon space, three K't'inga-class battle cruisers intercepted it. The captain of the lead ship, the IKS Amar, shot photon torpedoes at it. The torpedoes disappeared with no effect on V'ger.

V'ger then shot blue lightning energy bolts which engulfed the cruisers. One by one, the cruisers disappeared, not destroyed in the usual sense. Later, it would be implied that V'ger turned the ships into energy and stored their images as a part of its misguided mission to retrieve information. ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture")

Actor Mark Lenard portrayed the ill-fated captain of the IKS Amar. He was the first actor to play different characters in different live-action "Star Trek" productions. He and his fellow Klingons were also the first to don the cranial ridge make-up that would henceforth be the appearance of Klingons, instead of the simple dark-makeup swarthy look from "Star Trek". This was later explained within canon as a genetic experiment gone wrong, making Klingons look near-human for about a century. Of course, the real story was that with the budget of a movie, they could afford to make the Klingons look more alien.

Answer: Mark Lenard - Sarek

A Romulan ship is attacking Federation outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. The Romulans have developed a new weapon, and are testing it out on these outposts. The Enterprise responds. They make contact with an outpost that had just been attacked, just before the Romulans return to finish them off.

The Romulans also have a cloaking device, making them invisible to sensors. But it also makes them unable to scan clearly. A cat-and-mouse game ensues, with the story focusing on both Kirk and the unnamed Romulan Commander, reminiscent of WWII sub-and-ship hunts.

The two ships take damage back and forth as they both pull off inventive strategies. Eventually, the Enterprise critically damages the Romulan ship. The ships finally get two-way communication, only for the Romulan commander to comment that he and Kirk are similar, that they could've been friends in a different reality. Then he sets off his ship's self-destruct. ("Star Trek", episode "Balance of Terror")

Mark Lenard was the premier actor to portray a Romulan. (Romulans were actually only seen on-screen in two episodes of the 1960s' "Star Trek".) Perhaps producers thought he looked good with pointed ears, because they later cast Lenard as Spock's father, Sarek.

Answer: Clint Howard - Balok

This Orion is a drug-addled Orion that Tilly encounters. ("Star Trek: Discovery", episode "Will You Take My Hand?")

Clint Howard is the first actor to appear in both "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: Discovery". He also can claim a long time between appearances - 51 years. He has made five appearances in five different productions of Star Trek: 1) Balok ("Star Trek"); 2) Grady ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"); 3) Muk ("Star Trek: Enterprise"); 4) Dr. Martinez ("Star Trek: Strange New Worlds"); and 5) Creepy Orion ("Star Trek: Discovery").

Answer: Jeffrey Combs - Weyoun

Mulkahey was a racist New York City plain-clothes policeman. He was part of Sisko's hallucination of being a 1950s science-fiction writer, Benny. He and his partner - Burt Ryan (played by frequent guest star Marc Alaimo) - harassed Benny because he's a black man wearing a business suit. The two policemen later beat up Benny when he tried to aid a black man they have suspiciously shot. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", episode "Far Beyond The Stars")

Jeffrey Combs, who portrayed Mulcahey, said of his job in portraying the racist cop: "At first, I wondered where I could find Weyoun in this guy, but then I realized that his status as a suppressing authority figure is the synthesis for Weyoun in Benny's mind. So I approached him as a completely different character."

Answer: Kurtwood Smith - Federation President

Annorax was a Krenim scientist who built a time-based weapon. Specifically, it would push anything from comets to entire planets out of the time-space continuum, making a new timeline where whatever they'd aimed at had never existed. He used it to try to restore the Krenim Imperium to its former glory.

But in doing so on its first activation, he devastated his race with a plague. He fixed this with a second incursion, but this time his home colony disappeared with his wife. He and his crew spent the next two centuries trying to restore things, but could never quite make it the same. Voyager came into their sphere of influence and had developed temporal shielding.

Their shielding threw off Annorax's calculations, and his incursions became unpredictable. ("Star Trek: Voyager", episodes "Year of Hell" & "Year of Hell, Part II")

Answer: Kurtwood Smith - Federation President

Imperium Magistrate Clar of K'Tuevon Prime was kidnapped by Romulans for unknown reasons. He was kept in a small stasis pod until a commando team headed by Commander Ransom and D'Vana Tendi rescued him (although Tendi did not know the nature of the "package" they'd retrieved).

In celebration, Clar invited the senior officers of the Cerritos (who'd orchestrated the rescue) to a celebration party. Part of the celebration was to have witnesses to the rescue proclaim the facts of the rescue at the party. However, Primes' celebrations are very sinister in appearance. So when witnesses (Mariner, Rutherford, Tendi, and Boimler) couldn't proclaim what he wanted, he put them in a tank with eels and heated with flames. He couldn't understand why the lower deckers he'd called to testify weren't helping him "celebrate". ("Star Trek: Lower Decks", episode "Veritas")

Answer: Clint Howard - Balok

Buck Martinez was a chief medical officer at a Starfleet hospital located on the moon J'Gal during the Klingon War of 2256-2257. Two of his subordinates were Dr. Joseph M'Benga and Nurse Christine Chapel. He was known for his use of mixed metaphors. ("Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", episode "Under the Cloak of War")

Answer: Kurtwood Smith - Federation President

Thrax was Odo's predecessor as chief of security on Terok Nor, the former designation of Deep Space 9. He was seen during a shared Bajoran Orb vision by Sisko, Dax, Odo, and Garak of events before the expulsion of Cardassians. The timing of their vision is not quite the same as the actual history. Odo was in fact the chief of security during the events they were experiencing, and was the one who let some Bajoran prisoners be executed instead of pursuing an investigation that would've cleared them. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", episode "Things Past")

Kurtwood Smith said of his performance as Thrax: "[He] was a character within a character, and he was also a mirror of Rene's character from a different time. I loved the depth of it. I always liked the size of the characters on 'Star Trek'. It reminds me of when I used to do a lot of Shakespeare, back when I was first coming up. It has that feel about it, you know, because you've got all this stuff on and you're dealing with enhanced language. They're just very fun, complicated characters."

Answer: Clint Howard - Balok

Muk was one of Ferengi pirate Ulis's crew in the 22nd century. He was part of the crew that tried to plunder the USS Enterprise (NX-01) by knocking out the Enterprise's crew with a Trojan Horse device that emitted a gaseous sedative. He was particularly greedy even by Ferengi standards, claiming certain finds on the Enterprise for his own private stash instead of sharing in a communal pot with the others in his crew.

This increased the distrust between Muk and Ulis. This helped the few Enterprise crew who were conscious to capture the Ferengi and return them to their vessel, ordering them to leave with the warning that Starfleet and the Vulcans would be monitoring their space more closely. ("Star Trek: Enterprise", episode "Acquisition")

Answer: Clint Howard - Balok

Grady was an inhabitant of San Francisco's Sanctuary District A in the mid-2020s. He was apparently mentally ill, believing Earth was being invaded by aliens and that he could make himself invisible. He had stolen Jadzia Dax's comm badge when she first arrived in the 21st century, when she was knocked unconscious by the journey. She found him and convinced him to return her badge. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", episode "Past Tense, Part II")

Answer: Jeffrey Combs - Weyoun

Brunt was a liquidator for the Ferengi Commerce Authority. (He always announced himself as "Brunt, FCA".) His authority extends to Ferengi businesses not only on their homeworld, but to alien locales like Quark's bar on Deep Space Nine. He investigated rumors such as females earning profit (illegal until Rom became Nagus), or other un-Ferengi business practices. (Brunt appeared in 7 "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" episodes.)

Jeffrey Combs, the portrayer of Brunt, said this about him: "I think he's a completely right-wing devout Ferengi [...] He was the IRS guy from hell."

Answer: Jeffrey Combs - Weyoun

AGIMUS was a sentient computer that had enslaved a world for over a century until a team from the USS Cerritos was able to disconnect it from its drones. Without them, it was only a box, similar to a 20th century tower PC with glowing red lights. It was taken by Boimler and Mariner to the Daystrom Institute, where it was put with dozens of other megalomaniacal computers. ("Star Trek: Lower Decks", episodes "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie", "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption", and "A Few Badgeys More")

Answer: Vaughn Armstrong - Maxwell Forrest

Maximilian Forrest was the mirror universe's counterpart of Admiral Maxwell Forrest. Instead of being an Admiral, he was the commanding officer of the ISS Enterprise. He was mutinied against by his first officer, Commander Archer, who wanted to use the Enterprise to investigate a starship in possession of the Tholians that was from the future of an alternate universe - the USS Defiant (from "Star Trek", episode "The Tholian Web"). He eventually regained command, but with orders from the Empire to investigate the Tholians' captured ship. ("Star Trek: Enterprise", episode "In a Mirror, Darkly")

The two episodes of this story ("Star Trek: Enterprise", episodes "In a Mirror, Darkly" and "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II") were unique in that they occur entirely in the mirror universe (that is, before "Star Trek: Discovery"'s episodes set in the mirror universe) and that they had a more sinister opening theme song.

Answer: Vaughn Armstrong - Maxwell Forrest

Gul Danar was a Cardassian officer who was in pursuit of a Bajoran terrorist Tahna Los. Tahna made it to DS9 before Danar could capture him, and requested political asylum. ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", episode "Past Prologue")

Vaughn Armstrong said of playing Cardassians like Danar: "One of the nice things is that you get to put on all that makeup, and suddenly you have a Cardassian neck, for instance, that looks like it's been straining with tension for fifty million years. [...] That gives you some idea where they're coming from. I tend to start with the Human behind the mask, then allow the mask to take its effect."

Answer: J.G. Hertzler - Martok

This particular Drookmani Captain (unnamed) was first met when he had a dispute with the USS Cerritos over the salvage rights to an old Starfleet vessel. A year later, he again came up against the USS Cerritos when he and his crew attempted to collect ancient ships that lay beneath a village on Areolus. ("Star Trek: Lower Decks", episodes "Terminal Provocations" and "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption")

Answer: Jeffrey Combs - Weyoun

Thy'lek Shran was an Andorian commander of their Imperial Guard in the mid-22nd century. In spite of his xenophobic background, he became an ally of Captain Archer. He referred to Archer with the pejorative "pink-skin", though in later appearances it became more like a friendly nickname. (Shran appeared in 10 "Star Trek: Enterprise" episodes.)

Andorians had little screen time before the production of "Star Trek: Enterprise". They appeared and were part of the major plot of "Star Trek" episode "Journey to Babel". An image of an Andorian female was one of the possible appearances of Data's daughter Lal in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode "The Offspring". Another "Star Trek: The Next Generation" appearance was on the resort planet Risa. The most that was ever said about the characteristics of Andorians was by Ambassador Shras, who said of his species that they were a violent race.

Had "Star Trek: Enterprise" continued with more seasons, producers were planning to make Shran a regular character, either playing an advisor to Archer (similar to T'Pol's position at the beginning of "Star Trek: Enterprise"), or possibly his second-in-command. Sadly, the series ended with an often-panned final episode.

Since Jeffrey Combs played Shran so many times, he is said to have for all intents and purposes "invented" Andorians.

Answer: J.G. Hertzler - Martok

Advocate Kolos was Jonathan Archer's advocate (defense lawyer) in his trial on Narendra III, when Archer was accused by Duras (22nd century version) of harboring fugitives on the NX-01 Enterprise. Archer was found guilty, but was sentenced to life on Rura Penthe instead of death because of the good deeds he had done for the Klingons. Kolos protested that a Rura Penthe sentence was a de facto death sentence. He was then sentenced to a year there for his objection.

When Archer's security officer, Malcolm Reed, came to rescue Archer, Kolos rejected their offer to go with them. He was committed to making change in the Klingon legal system, and he could not do that as a fugitive. ("Star Trek: Enterprise", episode "Judgment")

Answer: Vaughn Armstrong - Maxwell Forrest

Korath was a Klingon scientist who developed the chrono-deflector, a time travel device. He had negotiated with Admiral Janeway to trade it for a seat on the Klingon High Council. However, Korath started to renege on his deal with Janeway (which she suspected). Janeway then stole it out from under Korath and his crew. The Klingons began to chase her, but she activated the chrono-deflector in the nick of time and returned to where USS Voyager was in the Delta Quadrant more than 20 years in the past. ("Star Trek: Voyager", episode "Endgame")

The appearance of Korath by Vaughn Armstrong in this "Star Trek: Voyager" episode was not his first. He first appeared in 1998 in "Klingon Encounter" at "Star Trek: The Experience", a permanent "Star Trek"-themed attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Answer: Vaughn Armstrong - Maxwell Forrest

Dr. Telek R'Mor was a Romulan scientist on a three-year mission, beginning in the year 2350. In 2351, he discovered a microprobe lodged in the eddy of a micro-wormhole. Using the probe as a relay, he was able to communicate with the ship that had launched it into the wormhole - USS Voyager. After gaining his trust, Voyager used the probe to boost a transporter signal and beam something to R'Mor in the Alpha Quadrant. Sadly, it was discovered that the wormhole had a time differential, and that R'Mor was 20 years in the past from Voyager. So transporting the crew to R'Mor's ship would cause time paradoxes that would possibly be very hazardous for everyone involved. So instead of people, he accepted messages from Voyager's crew and said he'd deliver them to the Federation after the Caretaker abducted Voyager to the Delta Quadrant. However, he died 3 years before that occurred, so Voyager's messages were not delivered. ("Star Trek: Voyager", episode "Eye of the Needle")

R'Mor actor Vaughn Armstrong said of this character: "That was a very nice character to portray because of the conflicts he had within himself [...] I love that character."