10 'Star Trek' cameos you might not remember

She may not have received an onscreen credit, but Hatcher’s appearance on a 1988 episode of TNG is real… and it’s spectacular. The future Lois & Clark star played transporter chief, B.G. Robinson, who beamed Bill “The Rocketeer” Campbell’s space rogue, Thadiun Okona, aboard Picard’s Enterprise and — it’s heavily implied — had a private meeting with him in her quarters later on.

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A decade after Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of Voyager took their own trip back through the timestream in a 1996 two-part episode that set them down in ’90s-era L.A. It’s up to Silverman’s earnest astronomer, Rain Robinson, to get them back to the future… and prevent a future apocalypse. Trek lore has it that Richard Pryor very nearly starred in The Voyage Home; landing Silverman early in her career was a great get for Voyager.

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Here comes Iggy Pop again! The “Lust for Life” rocker transformed himself into a real space oddity in a 1997 DS9 episode, playing the Vorta clone, Yelgrun. It was dream casting on the part of writer/producer, Ira Steven Behr, who made a point of hanging out on set with the Stooges frontman as much as possible.

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Frasier Crane in spaaaaaace? Not quite. In a one-shot 1992 appearance on TNG, Grammer played Captain Morgan Bateson, ranking officer aboard the 23rd century starship the USS Bozeman who finds himself in the 24th century thanks to a serious case of temporal distortion. That’ll toss your salad and scramble your eggs.

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A lifelong Trekkie, Goldberg turned what could have been a single stunt cameo apperance into a regularly recurring role on TNG as Enterprise bartender, and all around good listener, Guinan. On this particular 1990 episode, Guinan consoles Geordi (LeVar Burton) about a dispute he’s having with another engineer.(CBS via Getty Images)

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The People’s Champion became The Pendari Champion on an episode of Voyager that originally aired in February 2000 when Johnson was merely a king of the ring instead of the new King of All Media. Even then, his onscreen chemistry was cooking.

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These days, MacFarlane pilots the Trek-inspired Fox sci-fi series, The Orville. Back in 2004, though, he boldly went into the Delphic Expanse as fresh-faced Enterprise ensign, Rivers. Is it a coincidence that Captain Mercer kind of rhymes with Captain Archer?

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Riddle me this: Which frequent Batman villain visited the final frontier? None other than Frank Gorshin, who gave young viewers a crash course in the dangers of racial prejudice in the memorably metaphorical 1969 TOS episode, “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.”

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Better call Golin Shel-la. Amongst the copious guest appearances on Banks’s extensive pre-Breaking Bad TV resume is a freshman season DS9 episode where he played the leader of an alien race locked in eternal warfare with another faction.

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One year before her breakthrough role as a child bloodsucker in Interview With a Vampire, 11-year-old Dunst donned a pair of oversized ears (instead of fanged teeth) to play a youthful Cairn who inadveretently causes — and then heals — a rift between Deanna Troi and her mother.

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