Mulgrew. Flemeth. (Kidding).
Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.
Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.
John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Koenig. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
Bakula on “Quantum Leap”
Eve Harlow on “Agents of SHIELD”
There’s an episode of Scrubs where Bakula plays a janitor and secretly wants to leap back as a little Easter egg
Also, "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Bakula on “Men of a Certain Age”.
curiously, the podcast “the incomparable” made an episode exactly about this topic (more specifically, performances before their trek appearances ) https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/823/
Oh fun I will have to check it out
I think Patrick Stewart was pretty great in that episode of Extras.
Karl Urban was an okay Dr. McCoy, but the 157 different roles he played on Xena Warrior Princess was where he really shined the brightest.
I honestly enjoyed him more in Dredd (where he had to do more with less) than in Star Trek.
TIL!
Really only a handful, but that hilarious he had a few characters
He really did have range with them. I watched Xena when I was a kid, and I had no idea they were the same actor
Jeffrey Combs must have been busy.
There’s a an admiral in Star Trek Beyond that looked familiar, I had to look it up and it’s Shohreh Aghdashloo. A forgettable role, only noteworthy because I recognized the actor.
She plays Avasarala in The Expanse. Total powerhouse performance.
Brent Spiner was brilliant in Master of Disguise, a phenomenal movie
Damn, nearly did not recognize Keating, his performance in that gif gives heavy David Tennant to me.
He should have won best actor for his performance as “Ian” in Jungle 2 Jungle.
Andreas Katsulas had a recurring role as Commander Tomalak on TNG, but he absolutely shone as G’Kar on Babylon 5, especially in later seasons.
He gave me goosebumps in several scenes, especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJmuHNDcXLQ
TIL Tomalak was G’Kar. I don’t know how I didn’t know.
It would be easy to just gesture vaguely at all of Sir Patrick Stewart’s career. But your question was about better performances than in Trek, and I actually think he did an excellent Picard during the original TNG run. Not quite a hot take, I know.
However, for a double off-Trek billing, I suggest Green room (2015) where he plays against Anton Yelchin among others. It’s a pretty taut little thriller about a punk band on the road that realise to their horror that their gig for the night is at a neonazi club out in the sticks. It goes downhill from there.
Oh fuck yeah. That movie was wild and Sir Patrick Stewart delivered a truly evil performance.
It’s jarring if you only know him for his cool-headed leader or mentor roles like Picard or professor Xavier… He really lets rip as this extremist POS.
I think Alexander Siddig did good in Game of Thrones. I like his acting of Prince Doran Martell.
When I see Star Trek actors in other show I like to think “This is the holodeck”.
John De Lancie in Breaking Bad. Not that he was bad as Q, of course, but he didn’t usually have very meaty material to work with.
Jeff Combs was excellent in “The Frighteners”
Jeff Combs was excellent in everything, though.
Jeff Combs was
excellentin everything, though.
And Re-animator, and Castle freak. He has a very good track record in a certain subset of horror movies!
Ayy, +1 for Castle Freak. Isn’t that the one where the freak rips off his own ding-dong?
I honestly don’t recall. You’d think that sort of thing would be etched onto your memory 😬
Oh, I was just referencing a bad movie podcast that has frequently mentioned that movie. One of the hosts repeatedly recommended Castle Freak, and claimed that the freak ripped off his own ding-dong. This was subsequently disputed by listeners, and one of the other hosts.
At one point, one of the show’s listeners tweeted at Stuart Gordon, asking if the freak ripped off his own ding-dong. Stuart Gordon responded, simply, “No.” However, Jonathan Fuller, who played the titular freak, provided the show an autographed picture on which he wrote, “I ripped it off myself!” So the matter still pends.
Ha, sometimes even the production crew suffer from the Mandela effect 😆
Jeff Combs in Transformers Prime, voice of Ratchet. He did some excellent voice delivery as that character.
How many roles did he play?
Walter Koenig was a great Chekov, but his role as Bester the PsyCop from Babylon 5 was a more nuanced role that gave him way more to do.
I came here to say this. I first saw Walter Koenig as Chekov, but I really loved him as Bester. I’ve heard that he lights up when people bring up Bester at conventions and such.
Can confirm. I was an avid 90s Star Trek convention attendee, and got to hear a couple quick Bab5 anecdotes from him years ago.
Bester still gives me the creeps.
Bester was so great. Great vilain
Best character in the entire series. Never before would have imagined Walter making my skin crawl.
