It makes sense that many performers have appeared in both Star Trek and Star Wars as they are two of the biggest and most adored sci-fi properties. In the 1960s, Gene Roddenberry invented Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Original Series aired on NBC from 1966 to 1969 for three seasons. Star Wars, which George Lucas created, broke box office records in 1977. Due to the success of Star Wars, Star Trek also started a film series in 1979 with Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Star Wars and Star Trek have amassed many admirers over the years as the properties have dominated television and film. After George Lucas’ Original and Prequel Trilogies, Disney acquired Star Wars in 2012, resulting in the release of five further Star Wars movies as well as popular animated programmes like Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Disney+ series like The Mandalorian. Ten TV shows have been based on Star Trek, five of which are currently available to stream on Paramount+. 13 Star Trek motion pictures have also been released between 1979 and 2016. As a result, numerous actors have alternated between the Star Trek universe and the galaxy from a long time ago and far, far away in Star Wars.
One of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s most active actors is Brent Spiner. Spiner, who is most known for playing Data, has also portrayed other members of the Soong family in TNG, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek: Picard, as well as the identical androids Lore and B-4. voiced Galactic Senator Gall Trayvis in Star Wars: Rebels.
Brian George
Brian In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Dr. Bashir, I Presume?,” George had a memorable role as Richard Bashir, the father of Dr. Julian Bashir. This episode revealed that DS9’s doctor is a genetically produced Augment. After that, George provided Ki-Adi-voice Mundi’s in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Christina Chong
Although she was previously a part of J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Christina Chong now portrays Lt. La’an Noonien Singh on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Despite having her scenes removed from the movie, Chong portrayed an unknown alien on the planet Jakku who knew Rey (Daisy Ridley). Jumping to Star Trek, Chong’s complex and aggressive La’an quickly won over fans.
Clive Revill
Clive Revill provided the Emperor Palpatine’s voice in The Empire Strikes Back’s first edit before Ian McDiarmid was chosen to play the role. Revill later had a noteworthy holodeck appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation, where the USS Enterprise-crew D’s took on the role of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. In the episode, Revill portrayed the Sheriff of Nottingham.
David Birney
David Birney provided the voice of Darth Vader in the same 1996 Return of the Jedi audio version in which Ed Begley Jr. played Boba Fett. Then, in the season 6 finale of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “Tears of the Prophets,” Birney made a memorable appearance as Romulan Senator Letant.
Deep Roy
Star Trek Deep Roy Deep Roy played a variety of roles in the Star Wars films. Before making an appearance on screen as an Ewok and Snit, a member of the Max Rebo Band in Return of the Jedi, he served as the Yoda stand-in in The Empire Strikes Back. Roy subsequently portrayed Keenser, Scotty’s sidekick and mute engineer, in the Star Trek films directed by J.J. Abrams.
Ed Begley, Jr.
Ed Begley Jr., a Star Trek veteran actor, has a unique link to Star Wars: in a 1996 audio version of Return of the Jedi, he provided Boba Fett’s voice. Fans of Star Trek: Voyager will recognise Ed Begley, Jr. as Henry Starling, a multibillionaire tech magnate from the “Future’s End” two-parter.
Ethan Phillips
Ethan Phillips is best known to Star Trek fans as Neelix, the Talaxian cook who appeared in each of Star Trek: Voyager’s seven seasons. In Star Trek: Enterprise, he also made an appearance as a Ferengi. Phillips, though, has stepped into the Star Wars universe to lend his voice to a number of characters in video games like Star Wars: Force Commander and Knights of the Old Republic.
Felix Silla
Felix Silla played one of the telepathic, illusion-casting Talosians who made their initial appearance in Star Trek’s original pilot, “The Cage,” making him a Star Trek original (which was repurposed into the Star Trek: The Original Series two-parter, “The Menagerie.”) Later, Silla had a cameo as an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, more especially as the fuzzy bear with a hangglider.
Fionnula Flanagan
When Fionulla Flanagan played Catarine Towani in Caravan of Courage: An Ewoks Adventure in 1984, she entered the Star Wars universe. The role of Juliana Tainer in Star Trek: The Next Generation is likely Flanagan’s most well-known guest appearance to Trek fans. Juliana was somewhat of like Data’s mother because she was Dr. Noonien Soong’s wife, who created Data. Later, Flanagan appeared in Star Trek: Enterprise as a Vulcan envoy.
Fred Tatasciore
While Lt. Shax, a Bajoran security officer, is Fred Tatasciore’s primary role in Star Trek: Lower Decks, he also provides voices for a number of other characters in both Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy. Qui-Gon Jinn and Oppo Rancis in Star Wars: The Clone Wars are just two of the numerous characters the prolific voice actor has portrayed in the Star Wars animated series.
George Coe
In the episode “First Contact” from season 4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, George Coe portrayed Chancellor Avel Durken. George Takei’s character Lok Durd and Coe’s voice actor Tee Watt Kaa both appeared in the same episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
George Takei
One of the original Star Trek icons is George Takei. In addition to six Star Trek films, one episode of Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, Takei originated Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series. But Takei also ventured into the Star Wars galaxy in 2009, lending his voice to a Nemoidian character in Star Wars: The Clone Wars by the name of Lok Durd.
Greg Grunberg
Greg Grunberg, a longstanding associate of J.J. Abrams, collaborated with him on Felicity before playing Resistance pilot Snap Wexley in The Force Awakens. In Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Grunberg made a comeback as Snap. However, in the J.J. Abrams-produced Star Trek 2009, Grunberg played the stepfather of the young James T. Kirk.
Ian Abercrombie
In the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ian Abercrombie plays Senator Palpatine prior to his turn into the Emperor. Prior to that, Abercrombie played the part of Abbott in “Someone To Watch Over Me” and was seen in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager from seasons 5 and 6.
J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams is one of the most significant figures in the recent histories of the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, despite the fact that he is not an actor. Abrams, a lifelong admirer of Star Wars, revived Star Trek and turned it into a hit movie trilogy beginning with 2009’s Star Trek. Abrams helmed Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker after Disney purchased Lucasfilm.
Jason Wingreen
Before Temura Morrison was chosen to play the bounty hunter, Jason Wingreen provided the initial voices for Boba Fett in The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. But before that, Wingreen made an appearance in “The Empath,” a season three episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
Olivia D’Abo
Olivia D’Abo played Amanda Rogers, a Starfleet intern who discovers she is a part of the all-powerful, deity-like Q Continuum, in Star Trek: The Next Generation. When D’Abo voiced Luminara Unduli in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, she became a part of the Star Wars universe.
Patty Maloney
Prior to her appearance in the Star Trek: Voyager season two episode “The Thaw,” in which she portrayed one of the carnival artists who acted as the embodiment of Fear, Patty Maloney played Chewbacca’s kid Lumpy (full name Lumpawaroo) in the Star Wars Holiday Special (Michael McKean).
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman wore prosthetics to bring the Reman Viceroy to life in Star Trek: Nemesis before playing Hellboy on the big screen. Viceroy, who resembled Nosferatu, was Shinzon, the antagonist from Nemesis’s second in command (Tom Hardy). Perlman provided the voice of Gha Nachkt, a Trandoshan in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Simon Pegg
In the three-part Star Trek reboot film series by J.J. Abrams, Simon Pegg portrayed Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott, also known as Scotty. In addition to playing Scotty in the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond, Pegg also contributed to its writing. Prior to his third appearance as Scotty, though, Pegg played Unkar Plutt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the junk trader who ‘adopted’ the young Rey.
