Jimmy Ortega Jimmy Ortega is a stuntman , stunt actor , and stunt coordinator who appeared in three " Star Trek " spinoff series . He only received credit for his first appearance . His stunt costume from the episode was sold off on the It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction on eBay . Ortega was born in El Paso , Texas and has moved to Los Angeles in 1978 . He is married since 1988 and has two children , a boy and a girl . He received two awards , a Stuntmen Award in 1986 for best spectacular sequence in the mini series " North & South " , starring James Read , Kirstie Alley , Jean Simmons , Jonathan Frakes and his wife Genie Francis , Jim Metzler , and David Ogden Stiers , and a Screen Actor ' s Guild Award in 2001 for the outstanding performance of the cast in " Traffic " , where he doubled actor Benicio Del Toro and played a minor part . He doubled Del Toro also in the 1998 film " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas " in which " Star Trek " performers Richard Riehle , Larry Cedar , Ransom Gates , Gregory Itzin , Milt Tarver , and Lisa Hoyle also appeared . In 1994 he doubled " Star Trek " guest actor Carlos Carrasco in the Academy Award honored action film " Speed " , alongside Alan Ruck , Richard Lineback , Jordan Lund , Chuck Hicks , and Patricia Tallman . Other films he performed stunts in are " Hooper " ( 1978 , with Brian Keith and directed by Hal Needham ) , " Nightforce " ( 1987 , with Richard Lynch ) , " The Naked Gun " ( 1988 , with Ricardo Montalban and stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman ) , " Taking Care of Business " ( 1990 , with John de Lancie and Gates McFadden ) , " Predator 2 " ( 1990 , starring Kevin Peter Hall ) , " Night Eyes 2 " ( 1992 , with Tim Russ ) , Bram Stoker ' s " Dracula " ( 1992 ) , John Carpenter ' s " Escape from L . A . " ( 1996 , with Michelle Forbes , Leland Orser , and stunt performers Maria Doest , Phil Chong , and Eugene Collier ) , " Mars Attacks ! " ( 1996 , with the late Paul Winfield ) , the Academy Award winning " L . A . Confidential " ( 1997 , with James Cromwell and Matt McCoy ) , the comic adaptation " Spawn " ( 1997 , alongside stuntwomen Spice Williams - Crosby and Faith Minton ) , " The Mask of Zorro " ( 1998 ) , John Carpenter ' s " Vampires " ( 1998 , with Steve Blalock and Marjean Holden ) , the television movie ( 1998 , starring Patricia Tallman and Clyde Kusatsu ) , John Carpenter ' s " Ghosts of Mars " ( 2001 , with Joanna Cassidy and Marjean Holden ) , " Ocean ' s Eleven " ( 2001 ) , " The Italian Job " ( 2003 ) , " Spider - Man 2 " ( 2004 , starring Kirsten Dunst and Donna Murphy ) , " Mr . & Mrs . Smith " ( 2005 ) , " Ocean ' s Thirteen " ( 2007 ) , and the upcoming drama " Days of Wrath " ( set for 2008 , with Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) . Ortega has also appeared in several television series such as " CHiPs " ( 1979 , episode " Valley go Home " with Robert Pine ) , " Flamingo Road " ( 1982 , episode " Heatwave " with John Beck and Paul Lambert ) , " Dallas " ( 1989 , episode " April Showers " with Beth Toussaint ) , " Falcon Crest " ( 1989 , episode " Charley " , directed by Reza Badiyi and with Allan Graf and Sierra Pecheur ) , " Renegade " ( 1992 , episode " La Mala Sombra " with Branscombe Richmond and John Vargas ) , " Martial Law " ( 1999 , episode " Substitutes " with Tom Wright and Tony Plana ) , " American Body Shop " ( 2007 , episode " SuperQuads " with Gary Guercio ) , and in several episodes of , " Alias " , " ER " , " V . I . P . " , and " Charmed " . Ortega has also stunt coordinated a number of films and television series such as " The Seventh Sign " ( 1988 , the West Indies sequence ) , the Oprah Winfrey production " David and Lisa " ( 1998 ) , several episodes of the television series " Friends " ( 1996 - 2003 ) , the comedy series " Veronica ' s Closet " ( 1997 - 2000 , starring Kirstie Alley and Wallace Langham ) , the " Pilot " episode of " Joey " ( 2004 ) , and " Dead Write " ( 2007 , with Robert Pine , Jonathan Breck , Jasmine Anthony , and Jane Austin ) .