Tiny Ron

Tiny Ron was the actor known for his role as Maihar'du in seven episodes of . He also played the Alpha-Hirogen Idrin in the fourth season episodes and .
Ron was not part of the primary filming of "Message in a Bottle" but filmed his scenes on 2nd unit on Friday on Paramount Stage 9. He previously had a "Show & Tell" meeting in full makeup and wardrobe on Wednesday during the production of the episode . For the episode "Hunters", Ron filmed his scenes on Tuesday on Paramount Stage 16.
Born as Ronald Taylor, he changed his artistic name when applying for the because it was already taken by Ron Taylor. The name was intended to be ironic, considering he was 7 feet (2.13 meters) tall and a former professional basketball player. 
With his large size, Ron was cast as hulking henchmen in a number of movies. Perhaps his best known film role is the hulking Nazi assassin Lothar in (1991, starring Billy Campbell, with Paul Sorvino, Terry O'Quinn, Ed Lauter, Clint Howard, and Max Grodénchik). Ron also appeared briefly out of prosthetics as a different character in this movie. 
Ron also played one of the kidnappers in (1994, which also starred Noble Willingham and Mark Margolis), (1996, with Patrick Kilpatrick, Ken Jenkins, Chris Doyle, and Allan Graf), and (1989, with Marshall R. Teague, Kevin Tighe, Anthony De Longis, and Patricia Tallman) and the comedy The Naked Gun (1988, with Ricardo Montalban, Lawrence Tierney, and Raye Birk).
He appeared in (1994) and (1996) as the Giant and the Queen Mother respectively, along with Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Ron Fassler, Kerrie Keane, Leon Russom, Wayne Péré, Glenn Morshower, Marva Hicks, and James Parks.
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Maihardu.jpg|Maihar'duMultiple appearances
File:Maihar'du Prophet.jpg|Maihar'du Alien
File:Idrin.jpg|Idrin 
=== Appearances as Maihar'du ===
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