List of Star Trek characters (N–S) This article lists characters of Star Trek in their various canonical incarnations. This includes fictional major characters and fictional minor characters created for Star Trek, fictional characters not originally created for Star Trek, and real-life persons appearing in a fictional manner, such as holodeck recreations. Bajoran characters are listed by family name, which is stated first. Todd Bryant. Todd Bryant (born October 8, 1963) is an American actor and stuntman who is perhaps most notable for having appeared in three Star Trek movies.
He played one of the engineering cadets in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the part of Klingon Captain Klaa in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Bryant also worked as a stunt performer on Star Trek Nemesis. Spice Williams-Crosby. Williams-Crosby took up personal fitness at the age of 26, including bodybuilding and nutrition. She is a third-degree blackbelt, a noted vegan, and has written a book and several articles on the subject.[2][3] She is married to Gregory Crosby, grandson of Bing Crosby; the couple have one son, Luke Gregory.[4] Selected filmography[edit] Film[edit] Television[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Charles Cooper (actor) Charles Darwin Cooper (August 11, 1926 – November 29, 2013) was an actor who has played a wide variety of television and movie roles for over 50 years, from 1950 to 2001. Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock.
" His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal. " William Shatner. Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police sergeant in T. J. Hooker from 1982 to 1986. Afterwards, he hosted the reality-based television series Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996, which won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series. He has since worked as a musician, author, director and celebrity pitchman. From 2004 to 2008, he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the television dramas The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Early life[edit] Acting career[edit] Early stage, film, and television work[edit] Star Trek[edit] Shatner was first cast as Captain James T. 1970s[edit] Shatner's wife Gloria Rand divorced him in March 1969.[19] After Star Trek was cancelled that year, Shatner experienced difficulty in finding work in the early 1970s having been somewhat typecast from his role as Kirk.
Leonard Nimoy. Leonard Simon Nimoy (/ˈniːmɔɪ/ NEE-moy; born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, singer and photographer. Nimoy is best known for his role of Spock in the original Star Trek series (1966–1969), and in multiple film, television, and video game sequels. Nimoy began his career in his early twenties, teaching acting classes in Hollywood and making minor film and television appearances through the 1950s, as well as playing the title role in Kid Monk Baroni. Foreshadowing his fame as a semi-alien, he played Narab, one of three Martian invaders in the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere. Leonard Nimoy also voiced Sentinel Prime in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Nimoy and the Spock character are frequently mentioned in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory; in one episode ("The Transporter Malfunction"), Nimoy provides the voice of Sheldon Cooper's Spock action figure during a dream sequence.
Early life[edit] Career[edit] Before and during Star Trek[edit] Star Trek[edit] DeForest Kelley. Early life[edit] In 1934, the family left Conyers for the community of Decatur. He attended the Decatur Boys High School where he played on the Decatur Bantams baseball team. Kelley also played football and other sports. Before his graduation, Kelley got a job as a drugstore car hop. He spent his weekends working in the local theatres. During World War II, Kelley served as an enlisted man in the United States Army Air Forces between March 10, 1943, and January 28, 1946, assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit.
Career[edit] Early roles[edit] Star Trek[edit] Kelley as Dr. After refusing Roddenberry's 1964 offer to play Spock, Kelley played Dr. Kelley became good friends with Star Trek cast mates William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy from their first meeting in 1964. Later career[edit] Later in life, Kelley developed an interest in poetry, eventually publishing the first of two books in a series, The Big Bird's Dream and The Dream Goes On – a series he would never finish. Death[edit] Film[edit] James Doohan. James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan (/ˈduːən/ DOO-ən; March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise was one of the most recognizable elements in the Star Trek franchise, for which he also made several contributions behind the scenes.
Many of the characterizations, mannerisms, and expressions that he established for Scotty and other Star Trek characters have become entrenched in popular culture. Following his success with Star Trek, he supplemented his income and showed continued support for his fans by making numerous public appearances. Doohan inspired fans to pursue careers in engineering and other fields, as a result of his portrayal of Scotty.[1] Early life[edit] Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Military service[edit] Early acting career[edit] Star Trek[edit] George Takei. Early life[edit] Early career[edit] He originated the role of George in the musical Fly Blackbird!
, but when the show traveled from Los Angeles to Broadway the west coast actors were forced to audition and the role went to William Sugihara instead. Eventually Sugihara had to give up the role and Takei closed out the show's final months.[13] Star Trek[edit] Takei as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu Takei is one of a number of Star Trek supporting cast members whose difficulties with William Shatner have become public.[16][17][18][19] However, in an interview in the 2004 DVD set for the second season of Star Trek, Takei said of Shatner: "He's just a wonderful actor who created a singular character.
Takei is also one of six actors (the other actors being Jonathan Frakes, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Dorn, Avery Brooks and Majel Barrett) to lend his voice to Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising his role of Captain Hikaru Sulu when users visit the bridge of the original Enterprise in the computer game. Walter Koenig. Early life[edit] Koenig was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman Isadore Koenig and his wife Sarah (née Strauss).[1][2] They moved to Manhattan when Walter was a child, where he went to school. Koenig's parents were Russian Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union; his family lived in Lithuania when they emigrated, and shortened their surname from "Königsberg" to "Koenig".[3] Koenig's father was a communist who was investigated by the FBI during the McCarthy era.[4] Koenig attended Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa with a pre-med major.
He transferred to UCLA and received a BA in psychology. After a professor encouraged Koenig to become an actor, he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse with fellow students Dabney Coleman, Christopher Lloyd, and James Caan.[3] Career[edit] Star Trek[edit] Later work[edit] Koenig at ComicCon in Dallas, 2007 In 1987, Koenig directed his original one-act play The Secret Life of Lily Langtree at the Theatre of N.O.T.E. in Los Angeles. References[edit] Nichelle Nichols. Early life[edit] Nichols was born in Robbins, Illinois, near Chicago, to Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was both the town mayor of Robbins and its chief magistrate, and his wife Lishia (Parks) Nichols.[3] Later, the family moved into an apartment in Chicago. She studied in Chicago as well as New York and Los Angeles.
Her break came in an appearance in Kicks and Co., Oscar Brown's highly touted, but ill-fated 1961 musical.[4] In a thinly veiled satire of Playboy magazine, she played Hazel Sharpe, a voluptuous campus queen who was being tempted by the devil and Orgy Magazine to become "Orgy Maiden of the Month". Nichols toured the United States, Canada and Europe as a singer with the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands. On the West Coast, she appeared in The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd, For My People, and garnered high praise for her performance in the James Baldwin play Blues for Mister Charlie. Star Trek[edit] Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura NASA work[edit] David Warner (actor) Laurence Luckinbill. Laurence George Luckinbill (born November 21, 1934) is an American actor. Life and career[edit] Luckinbill was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the son of Agnes (née Nulph) and Laurence Benedict Luckinbill.[1] He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1956 and The Catholic University of America in 1958.
He starred in the 1976 Broadway play Poor Murderer and in Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter (1978) at the Public Theater. He portrayed Spock's half-brother Sybok in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989). His theater career has included writing and directing. Luckinbill has written and performed in several one-man shows, including, Hemingway, Teddy, and An Evening with Clarence Darrow. He has also starred in numerous productions of Lyndon, which he did not write.
References[edit] External links[edit] Cynthia Gouw. Cynthia Gouw (born May 30, 1963) is an American actress and TV news anchor and host. As a TV journalist, Gouw is a 3-time Emmy Award winning reporter. [citation needed] Gouw has worked as a television anchor and/or reporter for KPIX-TV Channel 5 (CBS) San Francisco; KDFW-TV Channel 4 (Fox) in Dallas; and KXTV-TV Channel 10 (ABC) in Sacramento.
In Philadelphia, Gouw hosts the TV show Asian Outlook, a half-hour talk show focused on the affairs of the Pacific Rim for WYBE. Gouw has been named Member of the Year by the Chinese American Council and Honoree of the Year by the Asian Bar Association of Sacramento. She has also been recognized by the California State Legislature, and is on the Advisory Board of Stanford University's "Grade the News".