Garm Bel Iblis
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Taking a queue from my avatar, what are some of the obvious appearances of stunt doubles in trek.
OBVIOUS stunt doubles
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Garm Bel Iblis
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how about spock and mccoy in Mirror Mirror
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
In the first post with Picard...did they really need a double just to throw a punch???
He could have injured his hand, I suppose.
Garm Bel Iblis
Commodore
You know, when I was quite young I never really noticed the doubles (I'm talkin' TOS). I actually started seeing them as the TVs got progressively larger and clearer.
Frailty thy name is Stewart?
This is the first one that comes to my mind as well. They don't even remotely look like Kirk and Khan.
I used to think stunt people was something Star Trek left behind after the original series, but I just watched "The Hunted" and "Hollow Pursuits" the other day and was shocked by how obvious the stunt men were when Danar was beating up everyone around the transporter room and when Barclay was fighting people on the holodeck. I'd think Dwight Schultz would have enough experience from being part of "The A-Team" to make a stunt man for him unnecessary. 
Why would you think that? Stunt doubles are used all the time for action scenes, it's hardly an abandoned practice?! Memory Alpha even has a list of stunt performers in Trek and credit them in episodes pages. They even have pictures in action, like the ones posted above...
Here is, for instance, the stunt double for Terry Farrell: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Anita_Hart,_Move_Along_Home.jpg
stunt double for Alexander Siddig: : http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Jeff_Cadiente,_The_Wire.jpg
stunt double for Roxann Dawson: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Lynn_Salvatori_Faces.jpg
/File:Brian_J_Williams,_The_Augments.jpg
stunt double for Gates McFadden: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Stunt_double_Gates_McFadden_Suspicions.jpg MA also has pics of her as a stunt double for Nana Visitor, Michelle Forbes and a few other actresses.
That's Patricia Tallman, who also played Lyta Alexander on Babylon 5. She's done stunts on all the major Trek shows, both doubling actors and in specific guest roles. She was one of the soldiers that dies repeatedly in DS9's 1st season "Battle Lines," doubled for Nana throughout the series, and she doubled Kai Winn's fall into the pit in the final DS9 ep. She was one of the terrorists in TNG's "Starship Mine." Pat was everywhere during that time. I even saw Mike Meyers punch her out in one of the Austin Powers movies.
I wish they'd a used one for dead brother Kirk on TOS Op.Annihilate. Shatner in a mustache. WHAT!! were they thinking. There's extras runnin' around the E all the time -- they couldn't hire one more male who SORT of looked like Shatner but not really -- you know, like brothers do in real life??
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