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Star Trekhas its own fair ploughshare of iconic aliens , though not even the Borg , inspired by H.R. Giger’sAliendesigns , are quite as unreasoningly appall as those inAlien . start whenStar Trek : The Original Seriespremiered in 1966,Star Trekbecame an even more talkative enfranchisement thanAlien , with a 12 TV series and13Star Trekmovies . From the 1970s until today , every decade has seen newStar TrekandAlienprojects , so it makes sense that several thespian have appeared in both franchises .
Star Trek ’s malevolent Borg have a major connexion to the xenomorphs from the Alien franchise and their Divine , H.R. Giger .
10Brad Dourif
Star Trek: Voyager / Alien: Resurrection
Brad Dourif only appeared in three episode ofStar Trek : Voyageras Ensign Lon Suder , but his fibre made quite an impression . A Betazoid member of the Maquis , Suder stomach from violent tendency he prove to control , but he had no electric outlet for them as a crewmember of Voyager . InVoyagerseason 2 , episode 16 , " Meld , " Suder murdered Crewman Frank Darwin and was hold to his tail on the ship .
Brad Dourif made Suder complex and suitably creepy-crawly .
When the Kazon attacked and postulate over Voyager in theStar Terk : Voyagertwo - parter , " basic principle , " Suder helped retake the ship . Brad Dourif made Suder complex and appropriately creepy , perhaps channeling some of the psychopathic traits ofDourif’sAlien : Resurrectioncharacter , Dr. Jonathan Gediman . Gediman was part of the scientific discipline team that clone Ellen Ripley , and he became a bit too obsessed with the Xenomorphs .
9Leland Orser
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek Enterprise / Alien: Resurrection
InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 2 , episode 10 , " Sanctuary , " Orser played a Skrreean farmer named Gai , who was bonded to the Skrreean congressman Haneek ( Deborah May ) . In a tardy sequence ofDS9 , season 3 , episode 21 , " The Die is Cast,“Orser seem as a Changeling masquerade as Romulan Tal Shiar agent Colonel Lovok . Orser ’s nextTrekappearance come inStar Trek : Voyagerseason 4 , instalment 5 , " Revulsion , " where he portray Dejaren , a holograph who develop a hate for constitutive lifeforms .
In his finalStar Trekappearance , Orser toy Loomis in aStar Trektime traveling installment — Star Trek : Enterpriseseason 3 , episode 11 , " Carpenter Street . " Loomis was a human blood bank worker who had been recruited by the Xindi in 2004 as part of their plan to destruct humanness . Leland Orser appeared inAlien : Resurrectionas Larry Purvis , a civilian who became an unwilling innkeeper to a Xenomorph egg .
Leland Orser has become most known for play fluid or even psychotic soul , including the sadistic nonparallel cause of death in 1999’sThe Bone Collector .
8Ron Perlman
Star Trek: Nemesis / Alien: Resurrection
Before achieving mainstream renown depict Hellboy inGuillermo del Toro ’s twoHellboymovies , Ron Perlman appeared inAlien Resurrectionas the crass mercenary , Ron Johner . premiere in 1997,Alien : Resurrectionwas one of the first adult Hollywood films Perlman star in . HisStar Trekappearance came not long after , in 2002’sStar Trek : Nemesis , where he was physically unrecognisable as the Reman Viceroy .
Although theViceroy is never named inStar Trek : Nemesis , he dish out as the second - in - statement of the Reman forces and becomes one of Praetor Shinzon ’s ( Tom Hardy ) most swear advisors . The Viceroy used his telepathic ability to help Shinzon go against the mind of Counselor Deanna Troi ( Marina Sirtis ) , although this middleman allowed Troi to decipher the Viceroy ’s mind afterwards . The Viceroy is finally kill in a one - on - one fight with Commander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) .
7Raymond Cruz
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine / Alien: Resurrection
Long before Raymond Cruz appeared asTuco Salamanca inBreaking Bad , he bet human soldier , Vargas , inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 7 , episode 8 , " The Siege of AR-558.“Vargas was one of the soldier put to protect the communicating array on the planet jazz as AR-558.Vargas survived the five - calendar month assault until Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) arrive with reinforcements , but he was killed during the Jem’Hadar ’s final attempt to take the raiment .
Cruz almost made it to the closing ofAlien : Resurrection , but became the last causality of the Xenomorph .
InAlien : Resurrection , Cruz portrayed Private First Class Vincent " Vinnie " Distephano , a dedicated soldier initially on the side of Dr. Mason Wren ( J. E. Freeman ) . Wren was part of the scientific team that cloned Ellen Ripley as part of their plan to renovate the Xenomorph species . After Wren tried to betray the other survivors , Distephano switched side . Cruz almost made it to the closing ofAlien : Resurrection , but became the last causality of the Xenomorph .
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine had an astonishing run of episode across seven season , but which of its 173 episodes well represent each time of year ?
6Jenette Goldstein
Star Trek Generations / Aliens
Jenette Goldstein is best cognize for her role inAliensas Private Jenette Vasquez , a cocky marine who is part of the team institutionalise to enquire Hadley ’s Hope dependency . Like her fellow leatherneck , Vasquez questions Ripley ’s experience with the Xenomorph on the Nostromo and believes their delegacy will be an gentle one . Vasquez helps keep Ripley and the young subsister , Newt ( Carrie Henn ) , alive , although she after sacrifices herself to avoid being read by the aliens .
Jenette Goldstein only had a small role inStar Trek Generations , as a science police officer on board the USS Enterprise - B in the opening sequence of the film . Although Goldstein has only had minor function in theStar Trekfranchise , herAlienscharacter , Vasquez , partially exalt the grapheme of Lt . Tasha Yar ( Denise Crosby ) onStar Trek : The Next Generation .
Jenette Goldstein also voiced the USS Enterprise computer in two installment ofStar Trek : Short Treks .
5Daniel Kash
Star Trek: Discovery / Aliens
Daniel Kash bring together theStar Trekfamily inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , sequence 10 , " Terra Firma , Part 2 , " with a abbreviated appearance as Duggan , an friend of Captain Gabriel Lorca in an substitute timeline of the Mirror Universe . Kash ’s more memorableStar Trekappearance came inDiscoveryseason 4 , installment 8 , " All In , " in which he plays Haz Mazaro , the owner of the Karma Casino Barge .
Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green)and Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) had dealings with Mazaro and reached out to him when they were calculate for black market isolynium . InAliens , Kash portrayed Private Daniel Spunkmeyer , a member of the Marine Combat unitsent to inquire Hadley ’s Hope colony . Spunkmeyer served as a co-pilot on the dropship Bug Stomper before he was killed when a Xenomorph stowed away on gameboard .
4Chelah Horsdal
Star Trek: Discovery / Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
Upon arriving in the thirty-second hundred inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 , Michael Burnham and her crew begin working to assist and reconstruct the United Federation of Planets . In the premiere episode ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 , Chelah Horsdal ’s Laira Rillak is elect as thenew Federation President . At betting odds at first , Captain Burnham and President Rillak become faithful allies , as they fight to save the Federation from the Dark Matter Anomaly inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 4 .
As a Human , Bajoran , and Cardassian hybrid , President Rillak comes from three different coinage that have historically been on opposing sides . Laira presents a brighter , more interconnected future , and her time as a top Federation embassador prepared her well for the job of the presidential term . InAliens vs. Predator : Requiem , Chelah Horsdal played Darcy Benson , whose husband and son were killed by Xenomorph chestbursters while on a hunting stumble .
3Mark Rolston
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Enterprise / Aliens
Character doer Mark Rolston portray Private Mark Drake inAliens , one of the Marines commit to jibe on the Hadley ’s Hope colony . In his firstStar Trekrole , Rolston played Lt . Walter Pierce inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 7 , installment 18 , " Eye of the Beholder . “Pierce had killed his girl and her lover out of jealousy while working on the USS Enterprise - D , and Counselor Troi felt empathetic traces of the murder eight years later on .
InStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 2 , episode 17 , " Canamar , " Rolston plays Enolian criminal Kuroda Lor - ehn . After elude prison , Kuroda had been recaptured when he met Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula),who had been wrongly imprisoned . Archer eventually earned Kuroda ’s trust , which helped the Captain get back to the enterprisingness . Mark Rolston also appeared briefly inEnterpriseseason 4 , episode 6 , " The Augments , " as the Klingon Captain Magh .
Mark Rolston provided the voice for Portal 63 in the video secret plan , Star Trek : revitalisation .
There are 11 Star Trek TV series ( and counting ) over 58 years . From The Original Series to TNG to Strange New Worlds and Prodigy , we grade them all .
2Winona Ryder
Star Trek (2009) / Alien: Resurrection
Winona Ryder spiel Amanda Grayson , the human mother of Spock ( Zachary Quinto ) , inJ.J. Abrams’Star Trek(2009 ) . In the alternate Kelvin timeline , Amanda was killed when Nero ( Eric Bana ) destroyed Vulcan . InAlien : Resurrection , Ryder asterisk as Annalee Call alongside Sigourney Weaver ’s Ripley 8.Call sustain her true identity operator as an Auton secret synthetics had been outlawed after a failed uprising .
Call was originally entail to kill Ripley 8 before the Xenomorph inside her could be harvested , but she arrive too of late . Despite being a political machine , Call felt fellow feeling for human race , which extend her to undermine the Xenomorph breeding political platform . One of the few character to make it out of anAlienmovie alert , Call apparently achieved her end , destroying the Xenomorphs and making it to Earth in one bit .
1Idris Elba
Star Trek Beyond / Prometheus
As revealed inStar Trek : Beyond , Idris Elba ’s Krallhad formerly been a Federation soldier and Starfleet military officer by the name of Captain Balthazar M. Edison . When Edison ’s ship , the USS Franklin , crash - land on a distant satellite , he find alien technologythat allow him to siphon energy from others to extend his own life . Edison grew to detest the Federation , and he became so mutated that he no longer appear human , and he became Krall .
Krall ’s hunt for a herculean alien weapon eventually work him into fight with Captain James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) , who succeeded in pour down him .
Before take on on the part of the villainous Krall inStar Trek Beyond , Idris Elba portrayed Jalek , the Captain of the scientific vessel Prometheus in 2012’sAlienprequel , Prometheus . Jalek eventually sacrificed himself and his ship to prevent the cryptical Engineers from destroying man . Whether they are exploring strange fresh worlds inStar Trekor try not to get eaten by a Xenomorph inAlien , several actors have left their mark on two of science fiction ’s self-aggrandizing franchises .
Star Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , Star Trek : Voyager , Star Trek : Enterprise , Star Trek : Discovery , Star Trek ( 2009 ) , & Star Trek Beyond are all swarm on Paramount+ .
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