People who would make convincing aliens in Trek

[DevilEyes]

Here's a fun question: which actors and other celebrities you could see playing members of one of Trek alien races? We had Iggy Pop as a Vorta, how about some other musicians, athletes, politicians...?

Let's skip the most obvious one - many people have noticed that Obama would make a great Vulcan.

Henry Rollins already has a Cardassian neck, he wouldn't need that much makeup to play one!

Here is another guy with a Cardie neck - Serbian water polo player Danilo Ikodinovic. A few weeks ago as I watched him interviewed on TV, I couldn't help thinking "look at the neck! He'd make a good Cardassian!"

Yes, it's one of the signs that I've been watching too much Trek.

This is Sally Dexter, a wonderful British TV/theatre actress I like a lot. She has strong features and can be really intense and scary on screen, and I think she could make a great Cardassian or Klingon!

Any other suggestions?

 

[Ziz]

Dennis Rodman

Invent a new race. No makeup necessary.

 

[RyuRoots]

Dennis Rodman

Invent a new race. No makeup necessary.

For most people, I'm not sure. There are times where I have to step back and think "holy crap, there's a person under there".

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wanted Morgan Freeman to play Tuvok's father. Freeman would make a great Vulcan.

 

[Yug]

I was watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent last night, part of the revolving cast includes Jeff Goldblum, I thought: ROMULAN !!!

 

[Pemmer Harge]

I'd love to see Jeff Goldblum in Star Trek!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I was watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent last night, part of the revolving cast includes Jeff Goldblum, I thought: ROMULAN !!!

Julianne Nicholson would also make a great Romulan...

 

[FormerLurker]

If we had gotten a new cast in the late eighties instead of TNG, I'd have put money on Jeff Goldblum being cast as Spock. And Bruce Willis as Kirk(shudder).

 

[Yug]

I was watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent last night, part of the revolving cast includes Jeff Goldblum, I thought: ROMULAN !!!

Julianne Nicholson would also make a great Romulan...

Indeed... in fact she'd be a perfect Romulan or another sexy hot Vulcan... she was in some movie naked for about half the flick... woooweee!!

I watched L&O:CI again last night, it struck me that Jeff Goldblum would also make a great Doctor Who (I know he's American, it could work).

 

[jamestyler]

They'd save a few pennies if they hired Bill Bailey to be a Klingon.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Cant think of anyone off the top of my head, but i can tell you who sucked at playing an alien.....jason alexander in that Voyager ep. He was just "George Costanza in Space!"

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Obama.

Clearly a Borg Queen.

 

[Ziz]

Obama.

Clearly a Borg Queen.

http://adamthinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obama_nazi_communist_muslim_peace.jpg

 

[T'Girl]

This is Wes Studi, he was in "last of the mohecans" if I had my way he would of been Chakotay

He has one of those "wonderful faces", A talanted native-american actor who could play a wide host of charactors. Perfect as a old school Klingon, without all the make-up.

Veronica Vanoza, a european actress who done mostly little stuff.

Great at playing dark charactors. Like her intensity, I'd of had her play B'Elanna Torres.
Or maybe Tasha Yar.

 

[M'Sharak]

This is Wes Studi, he was in "last of the mohecans" if I had my way he would of been Chakotay

He has one of those "wonderful faces", A talanted native-american actor who could play a wide host of charactors.

Studi's good, and would have made a good Chakotay.

Funny, though -- I've also thought that Robert Beltran would have been a good choice for the part of Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, a role which went to Wes Studi in a couple of Mystery! productions of Tony Hillerman stories.

 

[DevilEyes]

They'd save a few pennies if they hired Bill Bailey to be a Klingon.

LOL So true!

It turns you're even more right than I thought, didn't even know this until I looked up his IMDB trivia page:

An avid Star Trek fan, he named his son (born 2003) after the Star Trek: Deep Space 9 character Dax and often refers to himself as a Klingon. He once claimed during his "Part Troll" tour that his ear-mounted microphone made him resemble "a wizard in a call center" and "a Klingon motivational speaker".

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0047155/bio

 

[jamestyler]

^ Brilliant! I didn't know about the Dax connection, seems he and I have something in common.

 

[caisson2delta]

That little freaky looking dude, named Bettlejuice, from the older Howard Stern show on Etv. It wouldn't take too much make up on him either.

 

[T'Girl]

^Yes Yes. I always wanted trek to have a species of little people.

 

[Mysterion]

Always thought Christopher Walken should've been cast in a DSN episode as a cardassian.