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Emmy award winner and Academy Award nominee James Cromwell has appeared as four unlike characters in theStar Trekuniverse . A fecund character actor , Cromwell begin acting in 1974 with an appearance onThe Rockford Files . From there , he went on to appear in legion pop television set shows throughout the 1970s , includingAll in the Family , MAS*H , Three ’s troupe , andDiff’rent Strokes . He keep appear on idiot box in the 1980s , in episode ofLittle House on the PrarieandBarney Miller , among many others , but also began taking on film theatrical role . His first starring role came in the 1992 filmBabe , for which Cromwell was appoint for an Academy Award .
Although James Cromwell is probable most recognisable toStar Trekfans as Zefram Cochrane fromStar Trek : First Contact , the actor had played three otherTrekcharacters before appear in that film . Cromwell’sStar Trekdebut add up inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 3 , episode 11 , " The Hunted,“in which he portrayed the bureaucratic Prime Minister of the Angosians . Cromwell later appear in one ofTNG’stwo - part installment , time of year 6 ’s " Birthright " as a Yridian monger named Jaglom Shrek . InStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 4 , installment 7 , " Starship Down , " Cromwell choose on another alien role , a Karemma named Hanok who serves as a commerce pastor .
There have been fourteen Star Trek movies over the last 40 long time , but which is the boldest big - screen adventure to go where no man has conk out before ?
4Nayrok
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 11 - “The Hunted”
InStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s " The Hunted , " Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and the USS Enterprise - calciferol visit the planet of Angosia III to tax their prayer to link theUnited Federation of Planets . As the Prime Minister , James Cromwell ’s Nayrok is the first mortal to approach Picard , and he requests help to apprehend a severe loose convict . The Enterprise shortly finds the captive , whose name is Roga Danar ( Jeff McCarthy ) , but his story does not quite match up with that of Nayrok . agree to Danar , he and many of his fellow captive were genetically enhanced soldiers who fought a warfare for the Angosians .
After the Angosian wars terminate , the heighten soldiers had trouble reintegrating into civilian life , and they were ostracise to a penal dependency . When Picard confronts Nayrok about Danar ’s claims , Nayrok refuses to respond , claiming it to be a matter of internal security . When Danar start the inpatient in a rising against the government building , Nayrok asks Captain Picard for service . Picard , however , states that the struggle seems like an internal subject that Nayrok must handle himself . Due to the human right rape Nayrok and the Angosian regime committed against their soldier and veterans , Angosia III ’s diligence to bring together the Federation is denied .
The narrative of Damar and the Angosian politics ’s treatment of veterans was imply as an emblem to US veterans of the Vietnam War . While the destruction result is arguably in force , it ’s not on the dot subtle .
3Jaglom Shrek
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6, Episodes 16 & 17 - “Birthright, Parts 1 & 2”
InStar Trek : The Next Generation’s"Birthright " two - parter , the Starship Enterprise visit space station Deep Space Nine , and James Cromwell ’s Jaglom Shrek sound off off the chief plot require Lt . Worf ( Michael Dorn).A member of the Yridian species , Shrek is an info brokerwho tellsWorf that his founding father Moghmay have survive the Khitomer Massacre . Shrek claims that Mogh is live in a Romulan prison house ingroup , but Worf doubts this information and makes the Yridian personally take him to the camp . Once there , Worf learns that his father did die at Khitomer as he believe and his mob ’s honor continue entire .
The Romulan guard preclude Worf from leaving since he now knows the location of the camp . Worf exhort some of the untested Klingons to be curious about their civilization and inheritance , and the Romulans eventually allow them to leave the prison inner circle . Jaglom Shrek only come out in brief in " Birthright , Part II " and has no lines , but his function was in the beginning meant to be bigger . James Cromwell broke his leg in between filming the two component of the instalment , which resulted in his purpose being reduced . In the initial script , Worf ascertain more about Shrek ’s past , and he became a more sympathetic character .
2Hanok
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 7 - “Starship Down”
" Starship Down " follows the senior staff from Deep Space Nine as they meet with James Cromwell ’s Hanok for secret trade agreements . Hanok represent the interests of the Karemma , who live on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant and are part of the Dominion . As Hanok encounter with Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) and DS9 ’s crew , two Jem’Hadar ship emerge and fire on the Karemma ship . When the Defiant enters the fray , the ship is severely damaged .
Hanok ends up trapped in the Defiant ’s mess mansion house withFerengi barman Quark ( Armin Shimerman ) , who was represent as a go-between for the negotiation . As Quark has been imposing fake Federation tariff , Hanok is reluctant to trust the Ferengi . When a torpedo touch on the pot dorm without detonating , Quark and Hanok must work together to defuse it , which helps Hanok gain respectfulness for Quark . After the Defiant makes it safely back to DS9 , Quark show Hanok how to play Dabo , and the Karemma wins a significant amount of money .
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine had an astonishing run of sequence across seven seasons , but which of its 173 episodes well symbolise each season ?
1Zefram Cochrane
Star Trek: First Contact
In his most substantialStar Trekrole , James Cromwell portraysDr . Zefram Cochrane inStar Trek : First Contact . As the artificer of warp drive engineering , Cochrane withstand a particular property in Federation story as his invention led to Earth ’s first contact lens with the Vulcans . The fictitious character of Zefram Cochrane ( toy by Glenn Corbett ) was first mentioned inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 , episode 9 , " transfiguration , " when the Starship Enterprise found him marooned on an asteroid . A mysterious entity known as the Companion ( Elinor Donahue ) had restored Cochrane ’s youth and kept him active for 150 year .
InFirst Contact , Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise - Efollow a Borg third power back in time to 2063 Earth , where the Borg are trying to forbid human ’s first touch with extraterrestrial being . The Enterprise destruct the Borg ship , and thenseveral member of the crew light beam down to see to it Cochrane ’s historic flight happens as it was meant to . Lt . Commander Geordi La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) and Lt . Reginald Barclay ( Dwight Schultz ) , in particular , are emotional to encounter one of their heroes and are somewhat disappointed to check that Cochrane ’s true motivations were fiscal .
James Cromwell also provided the voice for a hologram of Zefram Cochrane inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 3 , sequence 1 , " ground , " which uncover that the site of first contact has become an amusement park .
After the terms due to the Borg , Cochrane ab initio wants to abandon his plans , but Commander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) and the Enterprise crew convince him to bear on . In the end , Cochrane , Riker , and La Forge circuit board the ship name the Phoenix and break the warp roadblock . Not long after , a Vulcan survey ship called the T’Plana - Hath land in Bozeman , Montana to greet humans for the first prison term , as the Enterprise bunch determine from a distance . Picard and his friends then return to the 24th hundred , having control that the seeds of the Federation andStar Trek’sfuture were planted .
Star Trek : The Next Generation & Star Trek : Deep Space Nine are pullulate on Paramount+ .
Star Trek : First Contact is streaming on Max .
