So I've been recording and watching the newly remastered Star Trek episodes and trying to introduce my seven-year-old to the rewarding world of nerd-dom. It's amazing to think that show is 40 years old already. 40 years. Wow. Anyway, I keep noticing the supporting characters and wondering whatever happened to them. Did they go on to other acting gigs? Was it a one-shot for them?

Last night we watched Season 2, Episode 5, The Apple, in which the crew beams down to a seemingly idyllic planet to find a population of amber-colored super-models enslaved to a planet-controlling machine-god called Vaal. You remember, right?

So anyways, there's this young couple called Sayana and Makora, who discover the act of "kissing" after furtively watching Ensign Chekov and Yeoman Martha Landon engaged in the act (so much for military discipline in the Federation)...and lo, they discover it was good. My daughter, by the way, remarked that it looked like they were eating each other and promptly demonstrated by licking the cat, much to his confusion.

Our trivia question today, dear readers, is Who was that young actor who played Makora? He is quite well known:

The answer is below the fold:

Answer: David Soul:

More commonly known for his role as Hutch in Starsky and same.

BTW, girlfriend Sayana was played by Shari Nims who had an apparently short-lived career.

Sadly, the actor who played the baritone-voiced muscle-man village elder, Akuta, Keith Andes, had an apparently successful career on stage and screen, but, according to his IMDB biography, suffered "extreme ill health, including bladder cancer, and he committed suicide in his Santa Clarita, California home at age 85" in 2005.