Kate Mulgrew was a very distinctive voice. I heard it right away in Dragon Age Origin.
Patrick Stewart also has a great voice in Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
The first person from Trek I remember hearing in a game was Leonard Nimoy in Civilization.
Funny, cause Michael Dorn and Mirina Sirtis were in Mass Effect. I guess Bioware knows their crowd.
Michael dorn was also in the first Gabriel knight game from 1990.
Chris Judge from Stargate did the same. That dude is in a lot of video games.
Indeed
There seem to be three distinct post-Trek futures:
- genuine big shot actor
- reasonably successful voice actor
- B-movie “star”, featured prominently on the poster and appearing for 5 minutes in the actual movie.
Don’t forget Cheers actors who became Star Trek actors.
It’s especially great when they do something that’s completely off the walls crazy. Michael Dorn played a screaming dwarf in the Billy and Mandy episode “Here There Be Dwarves,” who went mad after centuries of mushroom farming and exacted his revenge by invading the Keebler elves’ hollow tree. Then R. Lee Ermey pops up to censor the carnage and the dwarves and elves compromise by making mushroom cookies, and Billy does karaoke. That show was so delightfully warped and random sometimes.
Dorn as an alarmingly competent Weasel was pretty nuts.
…I didn’t believe you. I had to look it up to confirm it.
Damn. Never even noticed.
Ensign Ro and old Jake are both in Half-Life 2, those voices are ingrained in my memory so I instantly recognized them when i watched the show.
John De Lancie (Q) has done a lot of voice work, and acting for sure. My child was besides themselves when they found out he voiced Discord in MLP
His introduction to Breaking Bad was the moment it went from a pretty good cable drama to some of the best television ever made.
Tim Russ and Robert Picardo are in Fallout 4.
Picardo does a fine job as the Institute scientist who is in charge of synth production; seemed very much like the EMH’s role and he seemed to play it that way.
Russ, though… He’s a Brotherhood of Steel guy on the Prydwyn and just seems like a more stern version of Tuvok. Not because the role called for it, but because he was just reading lines without any passion behind them. Or wasn’t given proper direction (which given some things other VAs who worked on that have said is probably closer to the truth).
Patrick Stewart has also lent his voice to a Bethesda game as Uriel Septim in Oblivion.
Admin Shimmerman is in Starfield and I think it’s great because his character there is a billionaire corpo dude which reminds me Quark.
Oh and I can’t forget that William Shatner not only gave his voice to, he also literally wrote TekWars.
