10 Star Trek Actors Who Suffered From Typecasting

Like John Billingsley (and others), Connor Trinneer also crossed the Star franchises, this time to the Pegasus Galaxy for Stargate: Atlantis in which he played the decidedly more serious and recurring role of Michael ('Kenmore'), a Wraith-turned-human-turned-part-way-back-to-Wraith. He also played Professor Langford in Stargate: Origins.

In an interview with the Stargate news site GateWorld in 2007 about his then-ongoing role on Atlantis, the issue of typecasting was raised. Trinneer admitted that after Star Trek: Enterprise had come to an end, he feared that playing Trip "was going to pigeonhole [him] as a sci-fi actor."

Ultimately, Trinneer had a far more stoic reply to GateWorld's decidedly direct "So you're not being typecast at all?" replying,

I don't think that, and if I was, typecasting means you're getting work. If it's in one genre, so be it. […] I'm just hitting the pavement like the rest of them.

As demonstrated here, typecasting is also being asked the question. Our own interrogations and (mis)associations can be part of the problem. Moreover, Trinneer might have starred in other sci-fi shows since Enterprise, but he's equally shown his range in the likes of American Made and The Fablemans. He has fully embraced Trek and Trip too with The Shuttlepod Show.