Nicolas Surovy Nicolas Surovy is an actor who played Pe ' Nar Makull in the first season episode . Films . At the age of 22 , Surovy won his feature film debut in " For Pete ' s Sake " ( 1966 , with Teri Garr and Nicholas Worth ) . 1969 put Surovy in the telefilm " This Savage Land " ( with Glenn Corbett , Andrew Prine , and Charles Seel ) . In 1973 , Surovy starred in the baseball film " Bang the Drum Slowly " ( with TOS guest star Barbara Babcock ) . Surovy followed with the 1976 telefilm " The Time of Your Life " ( with James Harper and Norman Snow ) . Surovy reunited with Garr in 1980 ' s " Doctor Franken " . Surovy then appeared in the 1984 mini - series " George Washington " ( co - starring Ron Canada , Josh Clark , Richard Fancy , Megan Gallagher , John Glover , Kelsey Grammer , Harry Groener , Barrie Ingham , Jeremy Kemp , Richard Kiley , Stephen Macht , Clive Revill , Ned Romero , and Robert Schenkkan ) . Surovy ' s next film that year was " The Act " ( with David Huddleston ) . A pair of telefilms kept Surovy busy in 1985 . First was " Half Nelson " ( with Fred Williamson ) and " Stark " ( with Michael Champion and Denise Crosby ) . The latter followed up by an immediate sequel , " Stark : Mirror Image " in 1986 ( featuring Kirstie Alley , Jeffrey Alan Chandler , and Michelle Phillips ) . Television movies , in fact , were Surovy ' s only film work for the remainder of the ' 80s . In 1988 , it was first " Steal the Sky " ( joining Ben Cross , Ronald Guttman , Andreas Katsulas , and Mark Rolston ) and second that year , " Laura Lansing Slept Here " ( with Karen Austin ) , with the decade concluding putting Surovy in " Wolf " ( 1989 , with J . C . Brandy and Michael Cavanaugh ) . The 1990s saw Surovy on both the small and big screens . The former was the telefilm " Coopersmith " ( with Michael McGrady ) and the latter was in the romantic drama " Forever Young " ( written by J . J . Abrams and working opposite J . D . Cullum and Eric Pierpoint ) . Surovy ' s film credits in 1993 were the telefilms " Telling Secrets " ( alongside Anne Haney , Christopher McDonald , Don McManus , and Andrew Robinson ) and " 12 : 01 " ( with Frank Collison and Glenn Morshower ) . Surovy in 1995 reunited with Megan Gallagher in " Breaking Free " ( also costarring Gina Philips ) . 1996 found Surovy working in " The Undercover Kid " ( with Erick Avari and Robert Knepper ) and the biopic " The Man Who Captured Eichmann " ( with Joel Brooks ) . Surovy was then in 1997 ' s " 2 Voices " ( with past costar Norman Snow as well as Vaughn Armstrong , Casey Biggs , Dennis Creaghan , and Jane Daly ) . Surovy was far less active in the 2000s , with only a pair of films to show for it , " All Over the Guy " ( 2001 , with Andrea Martin ) and the telefilm " The Big Time " ( 2002 , alongside John de Lancie , Pat Healy , Christopher Lloyd , Dakin Matthews , Michael Buchman Silver , and John Vickery ) . Television guest work . Surovy appeared on the series " A World Apart " ( starring David Birney ) in " June 25 , 1971 " ( with Kevin Conway ) . Next was the drama " Partners in Crime " in " The Set - Up " ( 1984 , with J . G . Hertzler ) . Surovy was next on the family crime drama " Simon & Simon " in " Simon Without Simon " ( 1985 , with Ray Buktenica and Kenneth Tigar ) . The same year Surovy was seen on " The New Twilight Zone " in " Little Boy Lost " ( with Scott Grimes ) . Surovy concluded his ' 80s guest work on " Who ' s the Boss ? " in " Ode to Angela " ( 1989 , with Jana Marie Hupp ) . Starting in the 1990s , Surovy , like so many " Trek " alumni , found himself on the legal drama " L . A . Law " ( starring Corbin Bernsen , Larry Drake , and Diana Muldaur ) in the episode " Outward Bound " ( 1990 , joining Jennifer Hetrick , Warren Munson , Megan Parlen , Maryann Plunkett , and Craig Wasson ) . Next that year was " Over My Dead Body " in " Dad & Buried " ( with Scott Lawrence ) . Finishing out that year , Surovy was on " Pros & Cons " ( starring Madge Sinclair ) in the episode " Scarlett Biretta " ( with Bert Remsen ) . In 1993 , Surovy guested on the series premiere of the short - lived Florida - set sitcom " Key West " ( starring Leland Crooke , Denise Crosby , and Brian Thompson ) , and then in " Matlock " ( starring Daniel Roebuck ) in " The Conspiracy " ( with Brian McNamara ) . In 1994 , Surovy transitioned to the comedy - western series " The Adventures of Brisco County Jr . " in " Hard Rock " ( with William Frankfather ) but returned to drama on " One West Waikiki " in " A Model for Murder " ( with Adrienne Barbeau ) . In 1995 , the same year as Surovy ' s " Trek " work , he guest - starred on " SeaQuest 2032 " ( starring Rosalind Ingledew and Marco Sanchez ) in " Something in the Air " ( with Frank Welker ) . Next was the Palm Beach - based crime drama " Silk Stalkings " ( starring Charlie Brill ) in the episode " Pulp Addiction " ( directed by James Darren ) , and then in " Sisters " in " The Passion of Our Youth " ( with Melanie Shatner ) . Finally in 1995 , Surovy was surrounded by " Trek " alumni on the legal series " Murder One " ( starring Daniel Benzali , Barbara Bosson , John Fleck , and Gregory Itzin ) in " Chapter Nine " ( with Robert Pine and Ned Vaughn ) . The second half of the ' 90s kept Surovy busy . In 1996 , Surovy acted on the fantasy series " The Lazarus Man " in " The Catamount " ( with Leon Russom and Cari Shayne ) , followed by a similarly - named series " Nowhere Man " in " Marathon " ( with Bruce Greenwood ) . Surovy closed the year on the police series " Pacific Blue " in " Undercover " ( with Ken Olandt ) . Surovy ' s sole guest work in 1997 was on the extraterrestrial series " The Visitor " in the episode " The Black Box " , in which Surovy was joined by Granville Ames , David Drew Gallagher , Christine Healy , and Rosie Malek - Yonan . 1998 saw Surovy on the time - travel series " Seven Days " ( starring Alan Scarfe ) in " Shadow Play " ( directed by David Livingston and working with Charley Lang and Gina Phillips ) . Surovy ' s final work of the decade was on " Martial Law " ( starring Tom Wright ) in " Trifecta " ( 1999 , with Leslie Jordan and William Lucking ) . Surovy in 2001 received work on " Angel " in " Redefinition " ( with Brigid Brannagh ) and on " JAG " in " To Walk on Wings " ( with Thomas Kopache and Tricia O ' Neil ) . Surovy saw much work in 2002 . First was the short - lived sitcom " The Education of Max Bickford " in " The Good , the Bad & the Lawyers " ( with Donna Murphy ) , next the family legal drama " Judging Amy " ( starring Kevin Rahm ) in " The Extinction of the Dinosaurs " ( with Chris Sarandon ) , then " Crossing Jordan " ( starring Miguel Ferrer ) in " Acts of Mercy " ( with Ian Abercrombie and Georgann Johnson ) , and finally the medical drama " Strong Medicine " ( executive produced by Whoopi Goldberg ) in the episode " Deterioration " ( with Anthony Holiday ) . 2003 put Surovy on " L . A . Dragnet " in " For Whom the Whistle Blows " ( with Erick Avari , Jason Brooks , Paul Collins , Tim de Zarn , and Patrick Kilpatrick ) . Recurring and lead roles . Surovy is known widely for his work on ABC daytime serials . His first claim to fame was performing as Orson Burns on " Ryan ' s Hope " , which starred , for the entire run , " Voyager " headliner Kate Mulgrew . Surovy played Burns in 1981 , and also on with Mulgrew and him were Daniel Hugh Kelly and Malachi Throne . Surovy ' s other notable daytime role was as spy Mike Roy on " All My Children " from 1983 to 1984 and again in 1998 ( with Robin Christopher , Ronald Guttman , Mark La Mura , and Lee Meriwether ) . Surovy ' s first lead role away from daytime television was as P . J . Brakenhouse on the western " Guns of Paradise " ( starring Benjamin W . S . Lum ) from 1988 to 1989 . He performed in the episodes " Founders Day " ( with Julianna McCarthy ) , " Ghost Dance " ( with past film costar Andrew Prine ) , " Devil ' s Canyon " ( directed by Robert Scheerer ) , and " Stray Bullet " ( with Robert O ' Reilly ) , all in 1988 , and in 1989 ' s " A Private War " ( directed again by Scheerer and featuring Stanley Kamel ) . Surovy also won the role of Captain Massie on " Deadwood " ( also starring Jim Beaver , Larry Cedar , Brad Dourif , Paula Malcomson , Leon Rippy , and Keone Young ) . Surovy appeared in the episodes " Here Was a Man " , " The Trial of Jack McCall " , and " Bullock Returns To Camp " . Roles on the same series as different characters . On " Murder She Wrote " , Surovy played Ben Judson in " Night of the Coyote " ( 1992 , with Mariette Hartley ) , as James Ryerson in " School For Murder " ( 1995 , with Robert Foxworth and Maryann Plunkett ) , and finally as Jim Vardian in " Murder Among Friends " ( 1996 , with Robin Curtis and Barbara Alyn Woods ) . One other series was in which he played dual roles was " The Practice " , first as Dr . Henry Richards in " The Blessing " ( 1997 , with Michael Bofshever ) and again as Richard Baldwin in " Vanished " ( 2001 , with Callan White ) .