Speculative: TOS Era Actors who would have worked well on Star Trek

[Scott Kellogg]

Another good actor for the Starship Captain role would have been Ed Bishop
He played Commander Straker in Gerry Anderson's "UFO" and the chief inquisitor in TAS's "The Magics of Megas Tu."

 

[Christopher]

Another good actor for the Starship Captain role would have been Ed Bishop

Bishop strikes me as someone who would've been a good antagonist, perhaps an icily ruthless alien leader that Kirk had to face down.

 

[Grant]

I'm thinking that it's at least feasible that Frank Marth is being confused with Gene dynarski from mudd's women.

 

[Christopher]

I'm thinking that it's at least feasible that Frank Marth is being confused with Gene dynarski from mudd's women.

Vocally, perhaps, but they don't look a thing alike. My mind keeps serving up an image of Marth in one of the miners' jumpsuits from "The Devil in the Dark," or something similar.

 

[M'Sharak]

Frank Marth should've been on Trek, because whenever I see him in something, I think he was anyway.

As I've mentioned before, I have the exact same impression about him. Who are we confusing him with?

Warren Stevens, maybe.

While he and Marth wouldn't be mistaken for one another on close examination, they're close to the same age, and there's a similarity not in height but in the way they stand and carry themselves, and in some of the facial expressions they use. Their voices aren't really the same, but perhaps some vocal mannerisms in common, as well?

 

[The Old Mixer]

Maybe he just has a "Trek face".

 

[Christopher]

Warren Stevens, maybe.

While he and Marth wouldn't be mistaken for one another on close examination, they're close to the same age, and there's a similarity not in height but in the way they stand and carry themselves, and in some of the facial expressions they use. Their voices aren't really the same, but perhaps some vocal mannerisms in common, as well?

They seem very different to me, especially in vocal timbre. As I said, I visualize Marth as more of a blue-collar, rough-hewn type of character, like a miner. Not a Rojan type at all.

 

[M'Sharak]

They seem very different to me, especially in vocal timbre. As I said, I visualize Marth as more of a blue-collar, rough-hewn type of character, like a miner. Not a Rojan type at all.

As you wish, but that's a limitation imposed by your visualization, and not by the range of roles Marth in fact played during the span of Trek's original run.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Marth's face kind of reminds me of Mr. Lurry, the station manager of K-7 in "The Trouble with Tribbles."

 

[Grant]

A lithium miner? Like Ben Childress? Played by Gene Dynarski? LOL
But seriously Marth always did seem like a down-to-earth human character rather than the oddly alien and logical Rojan. In Forbidden Planet Warren Stevens was practically Vulcan like

 

[Hofner]

looking through Robert Duvall's imdb page, he certainly playyed a wide diversity of roles. I guess that's why I couldn't think of what kind of role he could have played in Star Trek.

A few of the many appearances I remember Duvall making are two "Fugitive" episodes, one with Susan Oliver, and two movies, "To Kill A Mockingbird" and along with Kim darby, "True Grit".

Here's two actresses that I don't associate with science fiction much but it might be interesting to speculate how they could've fit into TOS, Angie Dickinson and Patricia Crowley. Actually, after TOS, Dickinson did appear in a Roddenberry production, "Pretty Maids All In A Row".

Robert

 

[Christopher]

As you wish, but that's a limitation imposed by your visualization, and not by the range of roles Marth in fact played during the span of Trek's original run.

What the hell? Of course it's about my visualization, because you literally asked me whether I personally might have confused Frank Marth with Warren Stevens. So don't ask me a direct question about my own subjective visualization and then criticize me for answering it. I was speaking exclusively about the characteristics of my own subjective mental image of Marth or someone like him being in Star Trek, not saying a thing about Marth's general work as an actor.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

John Saxon would be a good choice for a Starfleet officer, and he did star in the second pilot for Gene Roddenberry aborted series 'Genesis II'/'Planet Earth'.

 

[Christopher]

John Saxon would be a good choice for a Starfleet officer, and he did star in the second pilot for Gene Roddenberry aborted series 'Genesis II'/'Planet Earth'.

Saxon played a lot of heavies in his career too, so he would've been good as a villain.

 

[BK613]

Marth has that blue collar look similar to Ben Childress played by Gene Dynarski

edit to add: didn't see that I'd been ninja's by @Grant

 

[The Old Mixer]

Marth I could see as a mining operation head, or an asshole Federation bureaucrat, or an official on a planet of hats. He would've been a natural in "Patterns of Force," as he was playing Nazis on Hogan's Heroes.

 

[M'Sharak]

What the hell? Of course it's about my visualization, because you literally asked me whether I personally might have confused Frank Marth with Warren Stevens. So don't ask me a direct question about my own subjective visualization and then criticize me for answering it. I was speaking exclusively about the characteristics of my own subjective mental image of Marth or someone like him being in Star Trek, not saying a thing about Marth's general work as an actor.

What I did was to continue a discussion which began as a response to this post, quoting you in my response as a courtesy because you had also responded to the same post.

You disagreed, citing your visualization that had not been part of the question as originally asked. That's fine -- you had had something else in mind, even though no one could have known because (in this thread, at least) you hadn't previously expressed it -- but please don't pugnaciously "What the hell?" me over my acknowledgement of your adding a new condition to the discussion.

 

[Ronald Held]

What about Ray Walston?

 

[Grant]

Hari Rhodes could have played any number of Enterprise crewmen rather than say, bringing back David L. Ross as Lt. Johnson in Day of the Dove.

Hari Rhodes - IMDb

Also Aki Aleong could have played a crewman or alien (protagonist or antagonist) -- he had two roles in Outer Limits both good and villain. Dude still acts regularly at age 86!!

Aki Aleong - IMDb

...and Donald Pleasence!!! I don't know what role he could have played but they needed to get him.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Although he's known primarily for his work in the 70s and 80s, Monte Markham was getting his start in the late 60s.