Many actors are Trekkies. Some keep their fandom close to their chest. Others jump at the chance to slap prosthetics on their face and pop up in an episode of Star Trek. Which is how Star Trek: The Next Generation ended up with sitcom stars, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummers and astrophysicists aboard the Enterprise.
Below, we've gathered some of our favorite celebrity guest stars from TNG. Roll back the clock a quarter century and see if you can recognize them. Good luck!
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Star Trek may be science fiction, but it welcomed this real-life genius scientist.
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Captain Morgan Bateson here is best known as which character on 'Cheers'?
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Speaking of 'Cheers', how was her character related the above character on the sitcom?
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On 'M*A*S*H', he played this character.
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She was a Bond girl in the Nineties. Then, she played this powerful member of the X-Men.
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Speaking of Nineties Bond girls who also played comic book characters, here's another one. Which DC icon did she play on television?
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This Judd earned her first screen credit playing a love interest of Wesley.
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Hey, it's another performer who played a comic book character! Which Marvel character did she play nine years after this episode aired?
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As a cast member on 'Saturday Night Live', he was best known for his impression of which Rat Pack member?
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In the 1980s, he became famous for playing this stuttering character.
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This is Pamela Adlon in the episode "Who Watches the Watchers?" She would later voice this cartoon character in more than 200 episodes.
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Ray Wise played the father of the above in "Who Watches the Watchers?" A few years later, he memorably played the father of which TV character?
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Finally, this drummer inside the Antedian dignitary costume was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. His name is even in the band.
