10 Actors Who Have Been On Both Star Trek And Stargate

The raspy yet silken tones of the immense Tony Todd have graced the soundwaves of many a franchise, from DC Animated Movies and Final Destination. He's been a regular face on a number of TV show for decades, including Stargate SG-1 and Star Trek.

For Trek, he played Kurn, the brother of Worf in both The Next Generation and reprising the role for an episode of Deep Space Nine. He also played an Alpha Hirogen on Star Trek Voyager, but his most notable role for Star Trek was for the heart-breaking DS9 episode The Visitor.

In this seminal episode, he played an older version of Jake Sisko, who watched his father Benjamin disappear into a Wormhole inversion, only able to reappear every few years for brief moments. The elderly Jake then retells his story to a young aspiring novelist. As the story plays out, Tony Todd expertly lays out Jake's sense of pain and loss, as well as his final sacrifice.

In Stargate SG-1, Todd appeared for three episodes as Lord Haikon, the leader of a secretive Jaffa faction called the Sodan. They utilise personal cloaking technology that kept them from Goa'uld domination for centuries. Haikon, in scenes that are meant to echo the relationship in The Last Samurai, is a stern but fair warrior, who is dedicated to his people.