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Veteran Star Trek Actor William Morgan Sheppard Has Small Role in New Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 05:42, 19 March 2008 / Feature Films

Den of Geek just posted an exclusive interview with veteran Star Trek actor William Morgan Sheppard, in which he reveals that he has a small role in the upcoming Star Trek prequel movie. 

Sheppard is a British actor who already played three characters in Star Trek - Doctor Ira Graves in the second season TNG episode "The Schizoid Man", a Klingon Commander in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country and an alien named Qatai in the Star Trek Voyager episode "Bliss". Here are few excerpts of the interview.

You have a long and continuing association with Star Trek, even up until recent weeks, you were saying?


Yes, just did the J.J. Abrams one. Can't say anything about that obviously.

You can't say anything at all?

No I can't, and you damn well know it [laughs]! But yeah, I'm only playing a very small part.

Is it a repeat of any role you have played previously?

No, I will say that much, definitely not. In fact I am playing a different race, I've done Klingons...actually, I am going to be judging as a Klingon, though I won't be dressing up as one for it, at one of those big conventions up in Maryland. That one's in July, and they want me to go. It's a Klingon convention. Can you believe it?

Just for Klingons?

It seems to be, yes. But I thought the Star Trek ones were apparently coming to an end. I am in at the tail end of it. I only started doing it towards the end of last year, and this year they have booked me for about four different things. I am coming over to do some, with my son.
 
The full interview is here.



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By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:29:00 on Mar 20, 2008 | Edit History (1)

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...No offense to him, but he must be getting up there if that pic is from '88.

He is 75. This means he was 56 in TNG and in his late 60's when he did Voyager. Most people would think Patrick Stewart was older than 47 when he did "Encounter at Farpoint", but he wasn't. I guess Mr. Sheppard's weathered looks give him the appearance of being a frail geezer.


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How can someone be a 'veteran' Trek actor when he's only appeared three times? Wow, the guy appeared in two series and a movie but big whoop, so have many others!

He appeared in two different shows and a film, over a span of about a decade. Brock Peters can almost make the same claim and I think noone would have a problem with the same monniker for him. To say an actor is a "Star Trek veteran" is to say they have been there before. Rather than nit-picking the small details, why don't you absorb the overall story and relax? Jeeez.

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By: mikeaspatrick (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:10:15 on Mar 19, 2008

How can someone be a 'veteran' Trek actor when he's only appeared three times? Wow, the guy appeared in two series and a movie but big whoop, so have many others!

Please don't mislead readers by over-hyping stories. This site is excellent otherwise, don't spoil it.


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By: Jean-Luc (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:16:10 on Mar 19, 2008

I never associated Ira Graves with the "head guard" at Rura Penthe. No offense to him, but he must be getting up there if that pic is from '88.

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By: Dingo's Kidneys (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:50:05 on Mar 19, 2008

Let's not forget Mr. Sheppard's most memorable role (IMHO anyway) as Black Reg on Max Headroom.

If there was ever a show that is long overdue for DVD release, that would be it.

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RE: reg by Yorik @ 01:32:04 on Mar 20
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By: PatBorg (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:08:59 on Mar 19, 2008

I just saw him (and got an autograph) as the Klingon commander last month at an autograph show in Burbank, CA. -- he said nothing about this. ...like he was going to.

Really nice guy, talked to him for a few minutes. Also loved him on Babylon 5 as the "original" Soul Catcher.


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By: Terry212 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 06:22:14 on Mar 19, 2008

I always thought his life's work would be to play Joe Cocker in a movie.

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By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:18:01 on Mar 19, 2008

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RE: Love Him by A Taste of Lemmiwinks @ 10:28:55 on Mar 19

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By: Donner (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 06:06:23 on Mar 19, 2008

Don't get me wrong, this isn't one of those snarky "he hasn't done anything in a while so I thought he was dead" posts, this is a pleasantly surprised he's still with us post.

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