Chris Judge from Stargate did the same. That dude is in a lot of video games.
Kate Mulgrew was a very distinctive voice. I heard it right away in Dragon Age Origin.
Patrick Stewart also has a great voice in Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
The first person from Trek I remember hearing in a game was Leonard Nimoy in Civilization.
Tim Russ also showed up in Dragon Age: Origins, like it was a mini Voyager reunion.
Civ IV is still my favorite game of the series. It was peak Civilization.
“Your Seamen have all died.” What are you, my urologist?
Patrick Stewart voiced King Richard in Lands of Lore: the Throne of Chaos on PC way back in 1993. One of my all time favorites.
Edit: and Michael Dorn was in a little known FMV adventure game called Mission Critical around the same time.
Michael dorn was also in the first Gabriel knight game from 1990.
Ensign Ro and old Jake are both in Half-Life 2, those voices are ingrained in my memory so I instantly recognized them when i watched the show.
I’ll never forget the Powers That Be who passed on the Global Frequency pilot. Michelle Forbes was glorious as Miranda Zero.
I definitely remember recognizing Frakes, Dorn, and de Lancie while playing through the War of the Chosen expansion for XCOM2. Also René Auberjonois on a few of the Uncharted games as well.
Don’t forget Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby in XCom 2! It was quite the TNG reunion.
Yes, it certainly was! For some reason I didn’t recognize their voices. It wasn’t until I looked up the voice cast list to check the three that I mentioned that I found they were on it too!
It’s especially great when they do something that’s completely off the walls crazy. Michael Dorn played a screaming dwarf in the Billy and Mandy episode “Here There Be Dwarves,” who went mad after centuries of mushroom farming and exacted his revenge by invading the Keebler elves’ hollow tree. Then R. Lee Ermey pops up to censor the carnage and the dwarves and elves compromise by making mushroom cookies, and Billy does karaoke. That show was so delightfully warped and random sometimes.
Dorn as an alarmingly competent Weasel was pretty nuts.
…I didn’t believe you. I had to look it up to confirm it.
Damn. Never even noticed.
Sir Patrick Stewart as the Encarta (or was it Britannica?) encyclopedia “help” narration was hilarious in how unnecessary it was.
John De Lancie (Q) has done a lot of voice work, and acting for sure. My child was besides themselves when they found out he voiced Discord in MLP
Loved him as the evil Protoss in SC2.
His introduction to Breaking Bad was the moment it went from a pretty good cable drama to some of the best television ever made.
There seem to be three distinct post-Trek futures:
- genuine big shot actor
- reasonably successful voice actor
- B-movie “star”, featured prominently on the poster and appearing for 5 minutes in the actual movie.
George Takei killed it in his role in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. (Literally and figuratively, he played a hitman-come-mob boss and a father figure to the game’s protagonist.) I wish he had more screen time in the role.
Don’t forget Cheers actors who became Star Trek actors.
