Star Trek & Doctor Who... Who's been in both?

[The Laughing Vulcan]

New series of Who started tonight, and got me thinking about peripatetic actors.

Simon Pegg's Scotty in the new movie, and he's been a villain in Who!

Anyone else crossed the narrative dimensions?

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

Daphne Ashbrook was in a DS9 and in the Doctor Who tv movie.

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

And Maurice Roeves was a Romulan in TNG, and Stotz in The Caves of Androzani.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Off the top of my head:

Barrie Ingham (Dr Who & The Daleks, TNG- Up The Long Ladder)
Maurice Roeves (DW- Caves Of Androzani, TNG- The Chase)
Olaf Pooley (DW- Inferno, VOY- Blink Of An Eye)
Guy Siner (DW- Genesis Of The Daleks, ENT- I forget the ep, but he's Malcolm's dad)
David Warner (DW- one of the Big Finish Unbounds, lots of Trek)
Daphne Ashbrook (DW- 1996 movie, DS9- Melora)
Simon Pegg (DW- The Long Game, Star Trek XI)
Christopher Neame (DW- Shada, ENT- Storm Front)

And I think that's about it, though ISTR Sid (El Fadil) is going to be in a Big Finish later this year.

 

[ChristopherPike]

The number continues to grow...

Alan Dale (Jim Robinson from Oz soap Neighbours) played the doomed Romulan Praetor in Star Trek Nemesis and recently showed up in Torchwood.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

It's a pretty select group isn't it. There hasn't been as much actor crossover as with some other shows.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Hang about. We're forgetting John Franklyn-Robbins who played a Time-Lord in Genesis of the Daleks. There's a case for saying he's the guy responsible for starting the Time War, which plays such a large part in the New Series. That's two from the same serial, who went on to Star Trek!

Robbins is the Maquis leader who shifts Ro Laren's loyalty in TNG: Pre-emptive Strike.

Can't be that many (if any) left now. I keep hoping Dominic Keating might show up in Doctor Who, since he's back in the UK now...

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, I had a thought about Keating. I think that the reason they don't have a greater crossover is that most Trek actors are Americans, while Doctor Who actors are British.

 

[DanTheGrey]

Off the top of my head:

Guy Siner (DW- Genesis Of The Daleks, ENT- I forget the ep, but he's Malcolm's dad)

I hadn't clued in, consdiering I know him best as Lt. Grueber on 'Allo 'Allo...wow some of these actors get around

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Off the top of my head:

Barrie Ingham (Dr Who & The Daleks, TNG- Up The Long Ladder)

From Ingham's wiki article;

He is notable as being one of only nine actors to appear in both the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises. The others are Simon Pegg, Daphne Ashbrook, Maurice Roëves, Christopher Neame, Olaf Pooley, Guy Siner, John Franklyn-Robbins and Alan Dale. (Gregg Palmer also appeared in both franchises but his role in Star Trek went uncredited.)

I'm guessing they only count TV or movie appearances, not audiobooks.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Here's a near miss that occurred to me.

The late Georgia Brown (who played Worf's adoptive mother) did a few roles at the BBC, including a 70's programme I caught the other night... produced by Verity Lambert, Who's first producer. It was a historical drama all about the Suffrajet Movement and had a high count of actors who did Doctor Who.

All part of that Six Degrees of Separation game, I suppose.