Mission:Impossible! & TOS

[Christopher]

By the way, check out "The Controllers." Not only does its guest cast include Alfred Ryder from "The Man Trap" and Robert Ellenstein from The Voyage Home, but in a slightly interesting coincidence, there are two young prisoners played by performers who would both go on to play engineers in very early TNG episodes: Brooke Bundy (McDougall) from "The Naked Now" and Stanley Kamel (Kosinski) from "Where No One Has Gone Before."

 

[Myko]

That's Frank allright, thanks Greg!

 

[Capt.Mac]

If you all are looking for the ultimate Trek/IM connection episode, then I would suggest the IM episode called, "Trek". It has the Cestus III fort used as a mexican prison, run by the commander, played by Mark Lenard and one of the guards is played by Ralph Maurer, who played Bilar in Return of the Archons.(Come for the festival, ayah?) The background music during the desert wandering scenes sound reminiscent to the music in Friday's Child, and was done by the same composer, Gerald Fried.

 

[alchemist]

If you all are looking for the ultimate Trek/IM connection episode, then I would suggest the IM episode called, "Trek". It has the Cestus III fort used as a mexican prison, run by the commander, played by Mark Lenard and one of the guards is played by Ralph Maurer, who played Bilar in Return of the Archons.(Come for the festival, ayah?) The background music during the desert wandering scenes sound reminiscent to the music in Friday's Child, and was done by the same composer, Gerald Fried.

And Bob Field is played by Jack Donner (Subcommander Tal).

 

[Christopher]

...The slightly different looks between the old Silff and the new Silf (Paris) is due to his reconstructive surgery.

We never see Silff, since he's been dead for a couple of years, but the IMF team has some pictures of him to work with:
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And, yes, it's Frank da Vinci in the photos--in an uncredited "role."

No doubt they used da Vinci's photo for that because he was Leonard Nimoy's stand-in, a role I assume he played on M:I as well as ST.

 

[Christopher]

Oh, and in the 3-parter "The Falcon," there's a team member called Sebastian who impersonates Paris for much of the episode, and he never speaks when his own face is visible. I think that's Frank da Vinci too.

 

[Myko]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHM90t-mWMc

At 02:54 Phelps takes out a photo of Frank da Vinci.

 

[Christopher]

^Yup, and a couple of times in the first two parts we see the man himself, not just his photo. Although most of the time, the character is wearing a Paris mask, so it's Nimoy playing "Sebastian" playing Paris. (Hmm, would that be the only time Nimoy was a stand-in for da Vinci instead of the other way around?)

 

[Keith1701]

I think there's one episode where Nimoy's character is talking to mark Lenard. It was pretty cool

This is true, and I have both seasons where Leonard Nimoy was on Mission Impossible on DVD.