The Crew

With a distinguished career spanning the film, TV, theatrical and publishing worlds, Kate Mulgrew landed before us as Voyager Captain Kathryn Janeway — the first and only female captain to lead a Star Trek series. Graceful and gritty, Mulgrew’s credits are vast and distinct, starring in Orange Is the New Black, Ryan’s Hope, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, and many more. The oldest and bossiest girl in an Irish Catholic family of eight children, she moved from Iowa to NYC at 17 to launch a spectacular acting career that has led to her to Star Trek: The Cruise!

Actor, author and accomplished director, Jonathan Frakes is a man of many hats. Perhaps best known to Star Trek fans as Commander William T. Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise, Frakes has carved out a distinctive niche for himself as a versatile talent in Hollywood. Following several guest appearances on television series such as Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels, Days of Our Lives, and Eight is Enough early in his career, Frakes landed the role of Commander Riker on the long running television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. As second in command to Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Frakes’ portrayal of William Riker led the Starship Enterprise through seven seasons and three films. His characterization endeared Riker to fans young and old, making him one of the most beloved characters in the Trek pantheon. In addition to live action, Frakes has also lent his voice to animated projects, including the cult favorite Disney animated series Gargoyles as the character David Xanatos, and Adventure Time. He also landed appearances in Matt Groening’s Futurama and Seth McFarlane’s Family Guy, playing versions of himself on each series. Frakes holds a unique distinction among Star Trek actors, being one of only two regulars to appear on five different television series, from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Star Trek: Picard. Beyond acting, Frakes is also a veteran director, including several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Discovery and the feature films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection.

An acclaimed stage and screen actor as well as an accomplished voice-over artist, John de Lancie is best known as the mysterious and godlike Q, appearing in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. While only appearing nine times in 10 years, the cult popularity of Q is so widespread that John’s likeness has appeared in countless merchandising and promotional products. He’s been named “Best Villain,” “Best Recurring,” and “Best Loved” character. He’s also made appearances on such hit dramas as Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Law & Order, The Mentalist, and CSI.

Denise Crosby was cast as Tasha Yar in 1987 for The Next Generation, after first being picked to play Deanna Troi. Tasha Yar was initially among the top-billed characters and was featured prominently in “The Naked Now” and “Code of Honor.” Crosby left the show after 22 episodes when her character was killed by the alien creature Armus. In the documentary Trekkies, Crosby said her Tasha Yar character had to die in order to get “the best episodes.” She reprised her role as Tasha Yar in Season 3’s “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” in which an alternate timeline was created.

Award-winning theater director, actor and poet Robert “Bob” O’Reilly has been a Star Trek fan since 1967. O’Reilly has appeared in over a hundred films and television episodes, primarily as either the antagonist or as a villain. He has had arguments with Carroll O’Connor, a gunfight with Willie Nelson, and been arrested by Bill Shatner, all in the name of “The Bad Guy.” O’Reilly appeared in the Star Trek franchise for over ten years, primarily in his recurring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Chancellor Gowron, the leader of the Klingon Empire, a character he based on the Shakespearian character King Lear. Q’apla!

Jonathan Del Arco is reprising the role of Hugh Borg from The Next Generation on the new Star Trek: Picard series. Born in Uruguay, Jonathan came to the U.S. at 10 years old and learned English by watching TV; reruns of The Original Series were a favorite. No stranger to TV viewers for more than 20 years, he was most recently seen on The Closer and Major Crimes. Among his most notable guest star appearances are: Nip/Tuck, The Sopranos, 24, The Wonder Years, Blossom, Boy Meets World, Miami Vice, NCIS and…Star Trek: Voyager!

Robin Curtis is an American actress who played Saavik in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Tallera in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episodes “Gambit, Part I” and “Gambit, Part II”. 

Curtis replaced Kirstie Alley in the former role. She was also offered the role of K’Ehleyr in The Next Generation second season episode “The Emissary”, which eventually went to Suzie Plakson, after Curtis was busy filming another project. 

In 2002, she recorded an audio commentary for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Special Edition) DVD with Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, and Charles Correll. One of her movie costumes was sold off on the It’s A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.

Nana Visitor appeared in Broadway plays, had regular roles on TV and starred in the title role of Working Girl before joining Deep Space Nine as Bajoran Major Kira Nerys. The role piqued her curiosity because Kira Nerys wasn’t “a mother, or a wife, or a prostitute, or a killer. [Kira] is fully realized.” She also voiced the character in the video games Harbinger and The Fallen. Following Deep Space Nine, she starred on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical Chicago and later appeared in the series Dark Angel and Wildfire. 

Max Grodénchik is best known for his portrayal of Rom on Deep Space Nine over the course of 37 episodes. Before getting the role of Rom, he auditioned for the role of Rom’s brother, Quark, and played two other Ferengi characters on The Next Generation – Sovak in “Captain’s Holiday” and Par Lenor in “The Perfect Mate.” He wrote and performed “Rom’s Song” and performed the song “The Lady is a Tramp” in the Deep Space Nine episode “The Siege of AR-558.” He also played a NASA flight dynamics officer in Apollo 13.

Chase Masterson is best known for her 5-year breakout role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, reprising her roles of Leeta and Mirror Leeta in Star Trek Online. She has the title role in the Doctor Who Big Finish spinoff VIENNA. Among a myriad of other roles, Chase has guest starred on The Flash, hosted Sci-Fi Entertainment and starred opposite Bruce Campbell in Terminal Invasion for SyFy, played opposite Jerry O’Connell in Sliders, and co-hosted NBC Sunday Night at the Movies with Ryan Seacrest. Guest star credits include an episode of the Emmy-winning ER and Presidio Med, and a recurring role on General Hospital. Chase played opposite Richard Lewis in a cameo role Mel Brooks wrote for her in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Feature film leads include a mysterious jazz singer in eOne’s acclaimed sci-fi noir, Yesterday Was a Lie and a lead in the recently released Unbelievable!!!!!. She has had lead roles in the feature films Manipulated, Skipping Stones, and Je Suis Auto. Chase was named in AOL’s 10 Sexiest Aliens in Television History, Screen Rant’s 15 Most Stunning Aliens in Star Trek, Femme Fatales’ 50 Sexiest Women, Film Fetish’s Hot Leading Ladies of Film, and TV Guide Online readers’ poll’s Favorite Sci-Fi Actress on TV during the run of DS9. She is a singer who has headlined at Las Vegas’ Voodoo Lounge, Universal City Walk, and the Sofiensaal in Vienna, Austria. She was an Artist-In-Residence at the Vienna MuseumsQuartier in November 2019. Chase has mentored kids coming out of gangs since 2008 at Homeboy Industries. She is the Founder/CEO of PopCultureHero.org, teaching mental health skills and working to end bullying, racism, misogyny, LGBTQI-bullying, and cyberbullying by using relatable pop culture stories in schools. The Coalition also works in comic-cons and children’s hospitals. Chase has spoken at the United Nations, Google, UNESCO, TEDxVienna, the International Bullying Prevention Association, the World Anti-Bullying Forum, YMCA USA forums, on CBS News, and at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

Casey Biggs is an actor, director, producer, musician and teacher who portrayed Damar on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for five years. He created The Enterprise Blues Band with fellow members Vaughn Armstrong and Steve Rankin, who recordings have been best sellers throughout Europe and the U.S. A graduate of the Juilliard School, he is well known in both the world of the stage and television and has performed throughout the country and Europe. He has appeared in Lincoln Center’s Pride’s Crossing and spent ten years as a leading actor at Washington’s Arena Stage in productions of Taming of the Shrew, All the Kings Men, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Summer and Smoke, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Philadelphia Story among others. Film and television credits include Broken Arrow, Dragonfly, The Pelican Brief, The Good Wife, Elementary, CSI, and Person of Interest. His directing credits include Hedda Gabler, Hamlet, The Seagull, Richard III, The Three Sisters, Standup Shakespeare and Macbeth plus, for The Acting Company, Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Three Musketeers and Love, Shakespeare. He is an alumni of The Acting Company and is on the acting and directing faculty at the New School for Drama.

Jeffrey Combs has the distinction of portraying eight different characters on three Star Trek television series, most notably those of Brunt and the various Weyouns in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the Andorian Thy’lek Shran on Star Trek: Enterprise. He also voiced AGIMUS in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode, “Where Pleasant Fountains Lie.”

J.G. Hertzler is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and activist best known for his role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the Klingon General Martok, whom he portrayed from 1995 until the series’ end in 1999. He is also known for his roles in Zorro and BioShock.

Jeri Ryan has reprised her breakout role as Seven of Nine on the highly-anticipated Star Trek: Picard, now airing on CBS All Access. In addition to her turn as the Borg drone freed from the Collective on Voyager, her career has included acclaimed TV roles spanning three decades. Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public as Ronnie Cooke, a role that the show’s producer wrote specifically for her, starred in the CBS legal drama Shark opposite James Woods, and appeared on dozens of episodes of Bosch, Major Crimes, Body of Proof, and many more.

Robert Adame Beltran was born in Bakersfield, California. He is the seventh of ten children, of Mexican-Native American ancestry, though Robert describes his heritage as Latindio. After finishing high school, he attended Fresno State College, where he graduated with a degree in theater arts. Beltran landed his first film role in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit in 1981. One year later, he landed the role of Raoul in Paul Bartel’s Eating Raoul. Other appearances included Gaby: A True Story, Nixon and another Paul Bartel film, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills among others. In the theater, he has appeared in productions for Luis Valdez’s El Teatro Campesino, the LA Theater Center, the California Shakespeare Festival and others. Robert founded and serves as co-artistic director of the East LA Classic Theater Group, with a staff of professional actors. There, he played Hamlet and served as co-producer as well as director. Robert appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; King Henry IV; A Touch of the Poet; and The Price, among others. In 1995, he got the part of Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager. At that time, he received a Nosotros Golden Eagle Award as best actor in a television series. Robert supports National Down Syndrome Society and lives in Los Angeles, California. 
 
In his political activity, Robert Beltran has engaged over recent years in a series of classical drama workshops mainly on Shakespeare with the LaRouche Youth Movement of the Democratic Party as well as participating in several Schiller Institute conferences speaking on the subject of classical drama, most recently on his 2003 staging of Clifford Odets’ 1948 play The Big Knife. 

Robert Picardo enrolled at Yale as a pre-med student, not knowing that he would someday portray doctors in three separate productions: Dr. Dick Richard on China Beach, then as Dr. McCaskill in The Waiting Room, and, most famously, as the Holographic Doctor for all 7 seasons of Voyager. One of the two Voyager episodes Bob also directed, “One Small Step,” was a moving tribute to the pioneers of space exploration. Combining his 40-plus-year acting career with a lifelong interest in science, Bob served for over 15 years on the advisory board of The Planetary Society.

The half-human, half-Klingon B’Elanna Torres served as chief engineer on U.S.S. Voyager, but Roxann Dawson’s Star Trek credits also include directing 10 episodes of Enterprise and 2 episodes of Voyager. She also performed voice work on Enterprise and the Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force video game. Her TV credits include The Untouchables, Jack’s Place, Equal Justice, Any Day Now and Seven Days. Her film credits include leading roles in Guilty By Suspicion and Darkman III. Recently, Dawson has been busy as a director on The Deuce, This Is Us, The Americans and more.

Ethan Phillips is well known to Star Trek fans for the seven years he spent on Star Trek: Voyager as Neelix. He also played two different Ferengi characters, one on Star Trek: The Next Generation and another on Star Trek: Enterprise.

Phillips has appeared in over forty feature films, including the Coen brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Woody Allen’s Irrational Man, and Purge 3. Besides Neelix, he played Pete on Benson for five years, and has guest starred in scores of television shows including Better Call Saul, New Amsterdam, Veep, The Good Wife, Younger, Criminal Minds and most recently on HBO’s Avenue 5. He has played scores of leading roles both on and off-Broadway and in the major regional theaters. He plays tenor saxophone in the Allan Wasserman Jazz band.

Born in California, Garrett Wang spent his formative years on the move, living in Indiana, Bermuda, and Tennessee before moving back to California to attend UCLA to major in East Asian Studies and minor in theater. Garrett signed with his first talent agent in 1993 and within a year he landed his first speaking role, guest starring on All American Girl. Three months later, Wang was cast in the role of Harry Kim on Voyager. Garrett was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People as well as one of E! Channel’s “20 Coolest Bachelors.”

Tim Russ has been working within the entertainment industry for over thirty years. Star Trek fans know him from his role as Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager, as well as the film Star Trek Generations. His talents encompass a wide spectrum of the performing arts including composing, music (guitar & vocals), acting, writing, directing, voice-over and producing. His film credits include Live Free and Die Hard and Spaceballs, and series regular roles on The Highwayman, The People Next Door, Samantha Who, and iCarly. Russ has performed as a musician for over 40 years, playing rhythm, lead, and bass guitars, as well as solo vocals.

Connor Trinneer is most known for playing Charles “Trip” Tucker III on Star Trek: Enterprise and Michael Kenmore on Stargate Atlantis. Originally from Washington state, Connor discovered acting in college, went to drama school and found himself in New York upon graduation. Regional theater work quickly followed, and his career went on to span film and television as well. His big break came with Enterprise, which led to dozens of extraordinary roles and his epic appearances on Star Trek: The Cruise! Connor has also appeared in American Made, The Resident, NCIS, The Mentalist, Suits, Pretty Little Liars and was in all of season 2 of The Purge.

Linda Park is a proud graduate of Boston University’s BFA Theatre Arts program. Immediately after graduating she booked her first movie role in Jurassic Park III alongside Laura Dern and then landed her first series regular role on Star Trek Enterprise shortly after. She went on to be a series regular on Raines (NBC), Women’s Murder Club (ABC) and Crash (Starz). She has recurred on Legends (TNT), For All Mankind (Apple TV), Fairfax (Amazon) and most notably Bosch (Amazon). Notable guest stars include The Affair (Showtime), Claws (TNT), Dahmer (Netflix) and Amazing Stories (Apple TV). She has been in a handful of small Independent films including Face of Love starring Annette Bening and Ed Harris. She is a member of Antaeus Theater Company, Los Angeles’ premiere classical theater.

Vaughn Armstrong is a veteran Star Trek actor who is noted for portraying twelve separate characters in twenty-eight episodes over four separate series. His characters include a Human, a mirror universe Human, a Romulan, a Borg/former Borg, a Vidiian, a Kreetassan, a Hirogen, two Cardassians, and three Klingons. However, he is probably best known for his recurring role as Admiral Maxwell Forrest in the Star Trek: Enterprise series. He appeared in both the second, and penultimate episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Mary Wiseman is best known for starring as Sylvia Tilly in the Paramount+ science fiction drama series Star Trek: Discovery.  

Wiseman’s stage roles have included Nitzan Halperin’s Sow and Weep, Ariel Carson’s I Wanted it to Have a How & I Wanted it to Have a Verb, and Betsy/Lindsay in Clybourne Park. Wiseman has performed in productions and workshops of new plays in Playwrights’ theatres like PS 122, The Public, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop. 

Wiseman appeared in the television series Longmire as Meg Joyce, a nurse and love interest for the character Archie “The Ferg” Ferguson. 

In 2022, Wiseman’s portrayal of the character Carlo from the Off-Broadway play At The Wedding garnered her a Lucille Lortel Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Lead Performer in a Play. In February 2023, it was announced that Mary was cast in an upcoming Shondaland series The Residence as the White House executive chef Marvella. 

Award-winning actor, activist and humanitarian Wilson Cruz’s Dr. Hugh Culber returns to Star Trek: The Cruise. Wilson has appeared on Thirteen Reasons Why and in the 2020 GLAAD Award-winning original animated kids’ series The Bravest Knight. He is also the Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed docuseries called Visible: Out On Television. Wilson became the first openly gay actor playing an openly gay role on series television in My So-Called Life. Cruz also starred as Angel in the West Coast premiere of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical Rent, which he reprised on Broadway.

Celia Rose Gooding stars as the iconic role of ‘Uhura’ in the new Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds alongside Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romjin. The series is a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series that follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike. Currently in Season 1, it premiered to rave reviews and quickly became “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes. Reviews also raved about Celia’s performance, which marked her television debut. 

Gooding is preparing to be in production for Season 3 of Strange New Worlds, in which she returns as ‘Uhura’. She recently wrapped production on Breakwater, an independent crime thriller written and directed by James Rowe. 

Prior to film and television, Gooding originated the role of ‘Frankie’ in Diablo Cody and Alanis Morissette’s hit Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill. At 21, she was nominated for a Tony Award on behalf of this role, making her one of the youngest nominees of the Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical category. The production went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. 

Boosting a robust theater background, Gooding starred in roles such as ‘Penelope Pennywise’ in Urinetown and ‘Carmen Diaz’ in Fame at The Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy in New York City. Furthermore, Gooding studied Acting and Film at the Berridge Conservatory in Normandy, France with a concentration in Shakespeare, and studied dance at The Alvin Ailey Institute. 

Gooding was born and raised in New York, where she currently resides.

Melissa Navia is a Colombian-American actor and writer. Born and raised in New York, she has portrayed a myriad of singular characters on both the stage and screen, including guest star appearances on Billions, Dietland, and Bull. Navia stars in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise. She also plays the banjo and is trained in martial arts and sword fighting.

Tawny Newsome voices the lead character of Ensign Beckett Mariner on the Star Trek animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks on Paramount Plus. She stars in Netflix’s live-action series Space Force opposite Steve Carrell and John Malkovich. She starred in the Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes limited series True Story for Netflix. Additional credits include IFC’s Brockmire, Sherman’s Showcase and Documentary Now!, the Seeso Original Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, BET’s The Comedy Get Down, and NBC’s Perfect Harmony and The Carmichael Show. Newsome is the co-host of the comedy-meets-culture podcast Yo, Is This Racist? She’s also the host of the official Star Trek podcast, Star Trek: The Pod Directive.

Eugene Cordero can currently be seen on the Disney+ Marvel series Loki on its second season as a series regular. He also has a fantastic lead role in Amblin Partners/Rideback’s family comedy feature film Easter Sunday. Other notable recent spots include a role as villager ‘Stoke’ in The Mandalorian and appearances in Focus Features’ dramedy The High Note, starring Dakota Johnson and directed by Nisha Ganatra, the SXSW film Golden Arm, in which he had a leading role, and The Mule, a Warner Bros. film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper. Previously, Eugene appeared in Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island opposite Tom Hiddleston and Samuel Jackson. Additional credits include Ghostbusters, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, and Other Space, Paul Feig’s Yahoo series. Eugene is currently a series regular in the TruTV series Tacoma FD and recurred on NBC’s hit series The Good Place as Jason Mendoza (Manny Jacinto)’s endearingly incompetent best friend ‘Pill Boi.’ He has also recurred in Black Monday and Wrecked, along with the animated musical series Central Park as Kristen Bell’s boyfriend (in which he sings) and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Other TV credits include Grace & Frankie, Veep, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Making History, Parks and Recreation, Key and Peele, House of Lies, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Drunk History. Eugene starred alongside Alison Brie and Nick Offerman in Kings of Summer, which premiered at Sundance and was released by CBS Films. Eugene is a regular performer and veteran at UCB.