J.G. Hertzler

John Garman "J.G." Hertzler is an American actor from Savannah, Georgia, who has portrayed many different roles on several Star Trek series. He is one of only five actors to play seven or more different characters in the Star Trek franchise, the others being Jeffrey Combs, Randy Oglesby, Vaughn Armstrong and Thomas Kopache. Hertzler's best-known role is Martok, whom he played for four seasons on . He also wrote the continuation of his character's story in The Left Hand of Destiny diptych with Jeffrey Lang.
In addition, Hertzler has provided voice-over roles on several Star Trek computer games, including Star Trek: Armada and Star Trek: Armada II as the voice of Martok. Hertzler also played the role of Koval in . In 2007, it was announced that Hertzler would play Harry Mudd in a forthcoming edition of , which he would also direct. 
In a special feature on the DS9 7th Season DVD set (disc 7), Hertzler remarks, "You know, the thing about Star Trek is they use more theater people, Shakespearean-trained (I've done a lot of Shakespeare – most of the Klingons have done a lot of Shakespeare) and that's something that Star Trek was unique. Is unique. They tend to go with people who can operate in a strangely heightened reality and somehow make it as close to reality as you can. That's sci-fi, you know, that's what you need."
Hertzler was interviewed for the Deep Space Nine documentary What We Left Behind.
== Career ==
Hertzler made his film debut in (1978, starring Jeannetta Arnette). He then appeared in (1979, with Keith Andes and Robert Symonds). In both the 1970s and the 1980s, however, he worked primarily on stage, including a stint on Broadway in an adaptation of the Greek tragedy The Bacchae.
One of Hertzler's first major television roles was a guest spot in the episode "Sea Bride – June 3, 1954", where he appeared with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. Hertzler then became a regular on the 1990s series Zorro, playing Alcalde Ignacio de Soto during the show's third and fourth seasons. Duncan Regehr was the star of this series, and Henry Darrow was also a regular.
Hertzler has since guest-starred on such shows as (in an episode directed by Kim Manners and co-starring Morgan Woodward and David Youse), (directed by Leo Penn), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (with Chad Allen, Leland Orser, and Gregory Sierra), (starring Jason Alexander), and (with K Callan and Teri Hatcher). In 2000, Hertzler and Jeff Corey appeared as council members in an episode of . Hertzler also guest-starred on in an episode written by Ronald D. Moore; William Sadler was a regular on this series. Later that year, Herzler worked with Lee Meriwether, Keith Szarabajka, and Ray Walston on an episode of .
He had a recurring role as a gallery owner on , during which time he worked with Joanna Cassidy, James Cromwell, Ann Cusack, Matt Malloy, Chris Pine, Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, and Jeff Yagher. His other TV credits include the role of Black Dog in the 1994 family-oriented fantasy TV movie Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins, in which Anthony Zerbe portrayed Long John Silver and Shannon Cochran played the mother of the young protagonist. Hertzler also appeared in the 1996 mini-series Innocent Victims, along with Sam Anderson, Richard Fancy, Gregory Itzin, Don Keefer, Don McManus, Glenn Morshower, and Leon Russom. In 1999, Hertzler played director in the biographical TV movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, which also featured Jeffrey Nordling and Marc Worden.
Hertzler has appeared in few feature films since the 1970s. His first film credit since 1979's …And Justice for All. was (1998, featuring Elizabeth Dennehy and Tom Towles). In 2000, Hertzler acted in a short film called Jane along with Gary Combs. He has since appeared in two films starring Battlestar Galacticas : 2005's The Great War of Magellan (which Hatch also wrote, produced, and directed) and InAlienable. The former movie also starred Brad Dourif and Richard Lynch, while the latter project was written by Walter Koenig and featured fellow Star Trek alumni Erick Avari, Gary Graham, Richard Herd, Andrew Koenig, Judy Levitt, Lisa LoCicero, Courtney Peldon, Jeff Rector, Alan Ruck, and Marina Sirtis.
In addition to his film and television work, Hertzler has supplied his voice to a number of video games, in addition to the Star Trek games mentioned above. He and his Deep Space Nine co-star Armin Shimerman both had voice-over roles in the 2007 computer game BioShock. More recently, Hertzler voiced Captain Benjamin Mathius in the computer game Dead Space, which also featured the voices of Scott MacDonald, Peter Mensah, Andy Milder, and the aforementioned Keith Szarabajka.
In November 2013, Hertzler, a Democrat was elected to the town board of Ulysses, New York, a suburb of Ithaca, twenty minutes south of a town called Romulus. He has been residing in Trumansburg, NY, and worked for a time as a theater and film department adjunct professor at Cornell University. 
On June 8, 2017, Hertzler announced his candidacy as a US House Representative for New York's 23rd congressional district in the 2018 elections. As part of his campaign appearances, he plans to act "in the persona of Mark Twain" to present his ideas "through the brilliant humorist for all ages." He stated that this was a tribute both to Twain, who resided once in Elmira, and to actor Hal Holbrook, who had portrayed Twain on stage for more than six decades. 
==Star Trek appearances==
=== Appearances as Martok ===
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=== Other appearances ===
File:Vulcan Saratoga captain.jpg|Vulcan Captain(billed as John Noah Hertzler)
File:Vulcan Saratoga captain Prophet.jpg|Captain Officer Alien
File:Martok-Changeling, 2372.jpg| (Changeling)
File:Roy Ritterhouse.jpg|Roy Ritterhouse
File:Martok prophet, 2374.jpg|Martok Alien
File:Laas.jpg|Laas(billed as Garman Hertzler)
File:Bashir 62 hologram guest 14.jpg|Holosuite Guest
File:Hirogen fighter.jpg|Hirogen Fighter
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File:Klingon Bird-of-Prey captain, 2154.jpg|Klingon captain
File:Drookmani captain.jpg|Drookmani captain(voice actor)
File:Martok (program).jpg| (program)(voice actor)
=== Computer games ===
*Star Trek: Klingon (as Ler'at)
*Star Trek: Armada (as Martok)
*Star Trek: Armada II (as Martok)
*Star Trek: Elite Force II (as the Klingon, Lurok)
*Star Trek Online (as Martok)
== Bibliography ==
*The Left Hand of Destiny, Book One
*The Left Hand of Destiny, Book Two
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