- William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the "USS Enterprise" in the television show "Star Trek" from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of "Star Trek". He also played the title role as veteran police sergeant "T.J. Hooker", from 1982 to 1986.
- Leonard Nimoy
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Nimoy spent much of his early career in the 1950s doing small parts in B-movies, TV shows such as 'Dragnet', and serials such as Republic Pictures 'Zombies of the Stratosphere' in 1952.
- Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart OBE (born July 13, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated English film, television and stage actor. He is also Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield. Stewart has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years, including performances as various characters in Shakespearean productions. However, he is most famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S Enterprise in "Star Trek: The Next Generation", …
- Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of "Star Trek". He would also become one of the first people to be buried in space.
- George Takei
George Hosato Takei (born April 20, 1937) is an American actor known for his role in the TV series "Star Trek", in which he played the helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the USS "Enterprise". Takei is also known for his baritone voice and deep-throated catch phrase, "Oh my!" Consequently, Takei began recurring appearances as the announcer for "The Howard Stern Show" on January 9, 2006, after that show's move to satellite radio.
- Zachary Quinto
Zachary J. Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor who is most famously known for his roles as Adam Kaufman on "24", Sasan on "So NoTORIous" and Gabriel "Sylar" Gray on NBC's "Heroes".
- Wil Wheaton
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American writer and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ("ST:TNG"), as Gordie LaChance in the film "Stand By Me", and as prep-school rebel Joseph 'Joey' Trotta in "Toy Soldiers".
- Simon Pegg
Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. He is known for his title roles in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", and for the British sitcom "Spaced". Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright.
- Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor and director best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Moving on to directing in recent years, Frakes directed and also starred in "Star Trek: First Contact", which earned him the nickname "Two-Takes" Frakes for his speed.
- James Doohan
James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 - July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series "Star Trek". Doohan's characterization of the Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship "Enterprise" was one of the most recognizable elements in the "Star Trek" franchise. He also made several contributions behind the scenes for the "Star Trek" franchise.
- Peter David
Peter Allen David (often abbreviated PAD) (born September 23, 1956) is an American writer, best known for his work in comic books and "Star Trek" novels. David often jokingly describes his occupation as "writer of stuff". David is noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real world issues with humor and references to popular culture. He also uses metafiction frequently, usually to humorous effect, …
- Scott Bakula
Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor who played leading roles in two science fiction television series: "Quantum Leap" and "Star Trek: Enterprise". He also co-starred with Maria Bello in the short-lived 1996 CBS television series "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (which bore little or no relation to the 2005 motion picture of the same title), and had a recurring role in the sitcom "Murphy Brown".
- Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Nichols on December 28 1932) is an American singer, actress, and voice actress. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Her most famous role may be that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS "Enterprise" in the popular "Star Trek" television series, as well as the succeeding motion picture spinoffs, …
- Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was a famous and prolific American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning one, for "The Omen"), and also won five Emmy Awards.
- Walter Koenig
Walter Marvin Koenig (born September 14, 1936) is an American actor, writer, teacher and director, known for his roles as Chekov in "Star Trek", and as Bester on the series "Babylon 5".
- Eric Bana
Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series "Full Frontal" before gaining critical recognition in the biopic "Chopper" (2000). After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian television shows and films, …
- Levar Burton
Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957, in Landstuhl, West Germany), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an African-American actor, director and author who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award winning television miniseries "Roots", based on the novel by Alex Haley.
- Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn (born December 9, 1952) is an American actor known for his role as the Klingon Worf in multiple "Star Trek" shows and movies.
- Rick Berman
Richard Keith "Rick" Berman (born December 25, 1945 in New York, New York, USA) is an American television producer. He is most famous for his work as the executive producer of the Star Trek series from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" onwards and since Gene Roddenberry's death being seen as head of Star Trek production at Paramount, whether in film or television.
- Ronald D. Moore
Ronald Dowl Moore (born 1964 in Chowchilla, California) is an American screenwriter and television producer who is known for his work on "Star Trek" and the re-imagined "Battlestar Galactica" television series, which he created and runs.
- Cordwainer Bird
Harlan Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, essays, and criticism. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of The Outer Limits and Star Trek, edited the multiple award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions and served as creative consultant to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.
- Kate Mulgrew
Kate Mulgrew is an American actress, most famous for her role in Star Trek: Voyager . She was born in Dubuque, Iowa on April 29, 1955 and is the second oldest of 8 siblings. Kate Mulgrew has performed in 23 plays, 9 movies, 30 television shows, 6 audio books, and 1 television documentary. One of her first roles on television was of older daughter Mary Ryan on the soap opera Ryan's Hope .
- Deforest Kelley
Jackson DeForest Kelley was an American actor known for his starring role as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS "Enterprise" in the television series "Star Trek" and six of its subsequent movies.
- Manny Coto
Manny Coto is a Cuban-American writer, director and producer of films and television programs. He was the executive producer and showrunner of "Star Trek: Enterprise" in its final season. He is the co-executive producer on the fifth and sixth seasons of "24". Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has had much experience in sci-fi and fantasy genre.
- Avery Brooks
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana) is an accomplished stage and television actor and jazz and opera singer. Brooks is best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", and as Hawk on "Spenser: For Hire" and its spinoff "A Man Called Hawk".
- Bob Peak
Robert "Bob" M. Peak was a pioneer in the development of the modern movie poster. His paintings and illustrations were enormously influential. His artwork has been on the cover of "Time" magazine, "TV Guide", and "Sports Illustrated". He also did many advertisements and even some stamps. Some of the movie posters he has done are: "Apocalypse Now", "Star Trek" I to VI, "Superman: The Movie", "West Side Story", …
- Karl Urban
Karl-Heinz Urban is a New Zealand actor. He may be best known for playing Éomer in the second and third installment of Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the role of Kirill, Jason Bourne's opposite number in "The Bourne Supremacy" and the lead role in the video game adaption of "Doom".
- Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga (born August 14 1965, in Bozeman, Montana) is an American television producer and screenwriter who is mostly known for his work on the Star Trek series since 1990. He is credited as one of the co-creators and executive producers of "Star Trek: Enterprise" and was a producer of the short-lived alien invasion drama "Threshold". Braga received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Kent State University Stark in 2005.
- Majel Barrett
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry is an American actress, and producer. She is also the widow of television director/producer/writer and "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. As a result of her marriage to Gene Roddenberry and the fact that she has been in every "Star Trek" series, she is sometimes referred to as “"the First Lady of Star Trek".” She and Gene Roddenberry were married in Japan on August 6, 1969, …
- Alexander Courage
Alexander Courage (born December 10, 1919) is a 20th century American orchestrator, arranger and composer of music, primarily for television and motion pictures.
- Colm Meaney
Colm J. Meaney (first name pronounced born May 30, 1953) is an Irish actor widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine".
- Christian Slater
Christian Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor.
- Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin (born March 11, 1989) is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, as well as the Hollywood films "Along Came a Spider" and "Hearts in Atlantis". More recently, Yelchin appeared on the television series "Huff" and starred in the films "House of D" and "Alpha Dog".
- David Gerrold
David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman (January 24, 1944), in Chicago, Illinois, is an award-winning science fiction author who started his career in 1966 as a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series "Star Trek". He was invited to submit several premises, and the one chosen by "Star Trek" was filmed as "The Trouble with Tribbles", …
- Keith R. A. Decandido
Keith R. A. DeCandido (born April 18, 1969 in New York, United States) is an American sci-fi and fantasy writer. DeCandido was born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of Robert L. DeCandido and GraceAnne A. DeCandido. He claims to have been a "Star Trek" fan even before his birth, as his parents were fans of "Star Trek: The Original Series". While DeCandido is best known for his "Star Trek" fiction, …
- John de Lancie
John de Lancie (born March 20, 1948) is an American character actor. He is known for his recurring role as "Q" on the various "Star Trek" series, and as Frank Simmons in "Stargate SG-1". He is married to actress-singer Marnie Mosiman, and they have two sons, Keegan and Owen.
- Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Alan Combs (born September 9, 1954 in Oxnard, California) is an American character actor best known for his horror film roles and his appearances playing a number of characters in the "Star Trek" franchise. Combs was raised in Lompoc. He attended Santa Maria's Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and later developed his acting talent in the Professional Actor's Training Program at the University of Washington.
- Michael Piller
Michael Piller (May 30 1948 - November 1 2005) was a television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise. Piller was born in New York. With parents who were both involved in writing, his father as a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother as a songwriter, he planned to be a scriptwriter from an early age.
- Michael Jan Friedman
Michael Jan Friedman is an author of nearly sixty books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of which are in the "Star Trek" universe. Ten of his titles have appeared on the "New York Times" Best Seller list. Friedman has also written for network and cable television, radio, more than 150 comic books, most of them for DC Comics.
- Michael Okuda
Michael Okuda is a graphic designer who is best known for his work on "Star Trek". In the mid-1980s he designed the look of animated computer displays for the "Enterprise"-A bridge in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home". This led to a staff position on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1987 as a scenic artist, adding detail to set designs and props.