20 Wild ‘Star Trek’ Visitor Stars You’ll By no means Consider Appeared within the Last Frontier

Lengthy earlier than shared universes turned cameo-spotting right into a sport, Star Trek was quietly stacking one of the surprising guest-star benches in tv historical past. Over time, wrestlers, punk rock icons, sitcom legends, future Oscar nominees, and even real-world geniuses have slipped into Starfleet uniforms and alien prosthetics, usually years earlier than anybody realized who they had been . 

And with a brand new period of Star Trek on the horizon because of Starfleet Academy, now’s the right time to revisit the 20 wildest, weirdest, and most pleasant “Wait… that’s who?” visitor appearances the ultimate frontier ever pulled off.

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20 Wildest Star Trek Visitor Stars

1. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — Voyager

Season 6, Episode 15: “Tsunkatse”

Dwayne Johnson seems as a towering alien gladiator compelled to battle Seven of 9 (Jeri Ryan) in a brutal underground enviornment. Viewers even get handled with The Folks’s Eyebrow earlier than the struggle.

2. Kelsey Grammer — The Subsequent Technology

Season 5, Episode 18: “Trigger and Impact”

Within the episode’s endlessly repeating time loop, the Enterprise retains slamming into the USS Bozeman, a long-lost Twenty third-century starship trapped in the identical cosmic glitch. The thriller is in the end solved and viewers see Kelsey Grammer, of all folks, as Captain Bateson in full Starfleet mode.

3. Sarah Silverman — Voyager

Season 3, Episodes 8–9: “Future’s Finish, Components I & II”

Silverman performs Rain Robinson, a sharp-tongued Nineteen Nineties astronomer who works on the Griffith Observatory and sends a message to Voyager after discovering it in excessive orbit round Earth. She finally helps the crew return to their very own time.

4. Iggy Pop — Deep House 9

Season 6, Episode 10: “The Magnificent Ferengi”

The Godfather of Punk seems as Yelgrun, a Vorta normal coping with a number of Ferengis who need to make a deal. Pop received the function because of DS9 showrunner Ira Steven Behr, who’s an enormous fan of The Stooges’ frontman.

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5. Kirsten Dunst — The Subsequent Technology

Season 7, Episode 7: “Darkish Web page”

Dunst performs Hedril, Lwaxana Troi’s (Majel Barrett) gifted younger protégé, whose highly effective telepathic skills unintentionally reopen the deepest wound in Lwaxana’s life:  the long-buried grief over the daughter she misplaced, Kestra.

6. Jason Alexander — Voyager

Season 5, Episode 10: “Suppose Tank”

Kurros (Alexander) is a part of a small group of hyper-intelligent aliens Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) dubs the Suppose Tank. They need to kidnap Seven of 9 and have her be part of their crew.

7. Seth MacFarlane — Enterprise

Season 3, Episode 20: “The Forgotten,” Season 4, Episode 15: “Affliction”

Earlier than Household Man and The Orville, Star Trek fan MacFarlane quietly served as a Starfleet engineer in two episodes as Ensign Rivers.

8. Rainn Wilson — Discovery

Season 1, Episode 5: “Select Your Ache”; Season 1, Episode 7: “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad”

The previous star of The Workplace reinvented basic Trek charismatic con man Harry Mudd, first seen performed by Roger C. Carmel in Star Trek: The Authentic Collection, as a chaotic trickster in Discovery and the Star Trek: Brief Treks episode, “The Escape Artist.”

9. Ashley Judd — The Subsequent Technology

Season 5, Episode 2: “Darmok”; Season 5, Episode 6: “The Recreation”

Judd appeared in two episodes of Subsequent Technology as Ensign Robin Lefler, briefly showing as a love curiosity for Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton).

10. Pamela Adlon — The Subsequent Technology

Season 3, Episode 4: “Who Watches the Watchers”

Lengthy earlier than Bobby Hill and Higher Issues, an nearly unrecognizable Adlon (credited as Pamela Segall) performed a proto-Vulcan villager who mistakenly believes Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) is a god.

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11. Famke Janssen — The Subsequent Technology

Season 5, Episode 21: “The Excellent Mate”

Famke Janssen’s Kamala is an empathic metamorph promised in a politically organized marriage. Although she and Picard develop emotions for each other, obligation in the end forces each of them to stroll away. The actress would later reunite with Stewart within the authentic X-Males movie collection.

12. Gabrielle Union — Deep House 9

Season 6, Episode 3: “Sons and Daughters”

Union performs a tricky Klingon weapons officer named N’Garen. She’s one among many younger trainees who give a tough time to Alexander (Brian Bonsall), who is an element human and the son of Worf (Michael Dorn).

13. Mick Fleetwood — The Subsequent Technology

Season 2, Episode 19: “Manhunt”

Fleetwood Mac’s drummer seems as a fish-like alien dignitary whose presence turns Lwaxana Troi’s romantic whirlwind right into a diplomatic disaster. He’s secretly intent on sabotaging the summit the USS Enterprise-D is escorting him to.

14. Jonathan Banks — Deep House 9

Season 1, Episode 13: “Battle Traces”

Nearly 15 years earlier than he’d develop into generally known as Mike on Breaking Dangerous and Higher Name Saul, Banks appeared as warlord Shel-la throughout the first season of Deep House 9.

15. Stephen Hawking — The Subsequent Technology

Season 6, Episode 26: “Descent, Half I”

Hawking performs himself in a surreal poker sport in the beginning of the episode, alongside Information and actors portraying Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. He is the one actual individual to seem as themselves in Star Trek canon.

16. Christian Slater — Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Nation

Slater makes an uncredited look as a night-shift communications officer aboard the USS Excelsior,  a cameo organized by his mom, casting director Mary Jo Slater, as a favor to her son, who was (and nonetheless is) a famously devoted Star Trek fan.

17. James Worthy — The Subsequent Technology

Season 7, Episode 5: “Gambit, Half II”

The NBA Corridor of Famer’s cameo is likely one of the most humorous in Star Trek historical past. The 6′ 9″ Worthy performs a gruff Klingon named Koral, who’s introduced aboard the Enterprise and proceeds to tower over Worf and deliberately spills Klingon blood wine within the Prepared Room.

18. Teri Hatcher — The Subsequent Technology

Season 2, Episode 4: “The Outrageous Okona”

Hatcher performed B.G. Robinson, a Starfleet officer working within the transporter room who interacts with an untrustworthy and flirtatious pirate named Okona, performed by Billy Campbell three years earlier than The Rocketeer.

19. John Rhys-Davies — Voyager

“Scorpion, Half 1” (Season 3, Episode 26) and “Regarding Flight” (Season 4, Episode 11)

A sci-fi/fantasy legend sneaking into the Star Trek universe is John Rhys-Davies, who will ceaselessly be Gimli the Dwarf to Lord of the Rings followers. On Voyager, he pops up twice as a holographic Leonardo da Vinci.

20. Joan Collins — The Authentic Collection

Season 1, Episode 28: “The Metropolis on the Fringe of Ceaselessly”

As Edith Keeler, Joan Collins turns into the emotional middle of Star Trek’s most well-known time-travel tragedy. Her doomed love story with Kirk (William Shatner) results in one of the devastating selections in franchise historical past.

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