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Ancestors and Decendents.......

Mr. Scott

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Let's play Ancestors and Decendents.

Name the actor who played both roles, the Star Trek role, and the film/TV role in 20th/21st Century life............

James Sikking:
Captain Styles in Star Trek III.
Howard Hunter, Hill Street Blues.

(Note: Scotty treated Styles the same way people did Hunter on the Hill, as a blowhard who was easily fooled. However, if Furillo was a Admiral in Starfleet, the whole lot would of been court martailed for messing with Hunter's, I mean Styles ship.)

Alan Ruck:
Captain John Harriman, the Captain of the Enterprise B. (Harriman did not want to dent the ship because his dad would kick his ass.)
Cameron Frye, Ferris Buellers Day Off.

William Shatner
Captain James T. Kirk
Denny Crane (dodging tomatoes by Trekkers) Boston Legal

James Spader (Boston Legal) as a Founder who comes to this time to check on Kirk as a crazy, old drunk lawyer who was thrown from the Nexus and regrows up, and Odo who is thrown back to this time, as an exasperated legal partner with a meth addicted daughter, as punishment from the Great Link? That dude was an alien. I still say non canonically he was a Founder who went to the past, and Kirk did not die in the Nexus, but became Denny Crane.

Diane Muldar
Dr. Pulaski

Rosalind Shays, L.A. Law. (Wasn't there a non canonical book where Pulaski claims ancestory to Shays because she fell down an elevator?)

Note: Diane Muldar was beautiful on Trek. She's a beauty. Google her. She was fine. In my opinion, her hair was ugly, and it made her look older. I also wish this actress would of stayed and Crusher written out. Yes, I liked the McCoy/Pulaski angle. I wished in the series that the two could of met. Since time and space does not matter in this reality, someone should do a novel.

Jeri Ryan
Seven of Nine
Patrice Larue, defence attorney, Law and Order.

Yes, it's a silly thread. Expand please.
 
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Rosalind Chao:
Keiko Ishikawa in TNG and DS9
Miss Young in 'Different Strokes'

Avery Brooks:
Capt. Ben Sisko in DS9
Hawk in 'Spencer for Hire' and 'A Man Called Hawk'
 
Captain Picard's ancestors:

Historical -

- Pharaoh Seti I (Prince of Egypt)
- Ahenobarbus: Roman general and politician (Antony & Cleopatra)
- Praetorian prefect Sejanus: Roman advisor to Emperor Tiberius (I, Claudius)
- Macbeth of Scotland (MacBeth)
- King Henry II of England... (The Lion in Winter)
- And his son, King Richard I the Lionheart (Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Lands of Lore video game)
- Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (Lady Jane)
- Captain James Cook (Wayfinders)
- Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin (Fall of Eagles)
- Prime Minister Clement Attlee (Hallmark HoF: The Gathering Storm)
- Polish Worker's Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka (Pope John Paul II)

Fictional -

- Oedipus, King of Thebes (Drama)
- Leondegrance, ruler of Carmelide, father of Queen Guinevere (Excalibur)
- King Claudius of Denmark (Hamlet)
- Captain Ahab - appropriate given First Contact. We'll say it's based on true events in the Trek universe (Moby Dick)
- Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)
- Colonel Peters (Code Name: Emerald - we'll say that was Karla undercover)
* KGB Agent Karla (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People)
* May also be the unnamed Russian General (Wild Geese II) - defected to the other side and became...
* UNACO Agent Malcolm Philpott - codename (Death Train)
* Dr. Jonas - codename, he secretly survived being shot (Conspiracy Theory) and since he could no longer do field work he became...
* CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock (American Dad)

Alternate Universe -

- Dr. Armstrong - killed by naked alien vampires in London (Lifeforce)
- Professor Charles Xavier (X-Men) where they meet Picard and co. in a series of TNG crossover novels and comics.

Lots of entries for the ole' family scrapbook there. No need for Kevin Bacon to link it back around again either.
 
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Deforest Kelley:

Dr. Leonard McCoy, TOS
Unidentified WWII Army Medic, "Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"

If you haven't seen this movie, for a good chuckle please watch the scene by going to Youtube and do a search for 'Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - De Kelley'.

Apparently, since McCoy's distant ancestor was only a lowly medic, his commanding officer did not value his medical determinations. Learning this lesson from family history, young Leonard McCoy vowed to become a full-fledged doctor so he would someday be taken seriously....
 
Capt. Will Decker had an ancestor who was a minister. This fellow married the identical twin sister of Dr. Gillian Taylor, who disappeared mysteriously in the mid 1980s.
(Seventh Heaven starred Stephen Collins, whose character's wife was played by Catherine Hicks.)
 
Barbara Hambly famously wrote an entire novel, ISHMAEL, tracing Spock's lineage back to Aaron Stemple of HERE COMES THE BRIDES, who was played by Mark Lenard, of course!

It would probably be pushing things to try to relate Sarak to the gorilla Lenard played on PLANET OF THE APES . . .

Although evidence suggests that Captain Christopher Pike is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ!

(Take that, Da Vinci Code . . . .)
 
Spock’s mother Amanda is a distant cousin of Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford.

Think about it.
 
Spock, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, et al all had ancestors in the 20-21 centuries who were actors on a series of science-fiction shows. ;)
 
In an Alternate reality Picard is Gurney Halleck

Jim Kirk has an 19th ancestor named Jeff Cable who lived in San Francisco's Barbary Coast.
 
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