10 Actors Who Were In The Orville AND Star Trek

10. John Billingsley

John Billingsley, of Enterprise Dr Phlox fame, appears in the second season of The Orville. He plays Cambis Borrin, a grieving Xelayan father who has turned to murder in his pain. 

Home sees the Orville's Chief of Security, Alara Kitan, return home to her family (more on that later in this list). The episode was designed to highlight her physical struggles aboard a Union starship. Xelayans come from a planet whose gravity is many times higher than Earth's norms, so they appear much stronger than their human counterparts.

Kitan's strength begins to fade, so she returns to Xelaya to reset her body, so to speak. It is here that she encounters Cambis and Floratta. They have been driven mad with grief by the death of their son, a young scientist who had suffered a career setback thanks to Alara's father, Ildis. 

Billingsley gets to stretch his dramatic, and more frightening, acting chops here. Much of the episode is spent threatening the Kitans, including a scene where he forces Ildis to dip his hand in boiling sauce. 

And they said The Orville was a comedy...