10 Actors Who Played More Than One Character In Star Trek
3. Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Combs is one of those actors who just grabs your attention with his physical and vocal performances and there is no rubber mask that can hide him. No matter what they do to him, however much make-up and horns they put on him you immediately recognise that wonderfully seductive yet unnerving cadence. He was Tiron in the DS9 episode Meridian as well as Brunt, a Ferengi liquidator in several other DS9 episodes, famous for hating Quark and wearing a bar of gold pressed latinum on a chain around his neck. But he is perhaps best known as the disturbing and unsettling Weyoun a Vorta diplomat, or at least one of several clones of. The role was specifically written for him by Ira Steven Behr and Hans Beimler for the episode To The Death. The story goes that the character was killed in the episode but that the producers loved Jeffrey, and the character, and decided to find a way to bring him back. He was to return in Ties of Blood and Water revealing the Vorta cloning technology and allowing Jeffrey to be a sort of Doctor Who type character, always the same but with a little splash of individuality to each new clone. His talents were also used to varying degrees as a Patron in Vics Lounge in What You Leave Behind (DS9), as Officer Mulkahey in Far Beyond The Stars (an alternate character in a vision) and Penk in the Voyager episode Tsunkatse. Not done yet, he was to be seen again as Commander Shran, back behind a mask, this time as an Andorian, in several episodes of Enterprise and lastly Krem, a Ferngi pirate in Acquisition, also an Enterprise tale.
I.T. Consultant, technophile and Doctor Who fan. I like to talk about tech, take films apart and make excuses for Doctor Who's continuity errors. No other show has the power to make me feel like a big kid.
