Kenneth Tigar

Kenneth Tigar is the actor who played the part of Margan in the first season episode and Dammar in the third season episode . Tigar received no screen credit for his Next Generation appearance.
Outside of Star Trek, he has made several guest appearances, often playing Mr. Kopeckne, on , starring Ron Glass and James Gregory. He also appeared in an episode of with Michael Dorn and Robert Pine, , starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Tim Russ, and two episodes of , one featuring Alfre Woodard and another with Marc Alaimo. James B. Sikking starred in both of those episodes, while Barbara Babcock starred in the former. 
Tigar also appeared in the pilot episode of in 1993 (co-starring with Teri Hatcher, K Callan guesting with Christopher Darga and Persis Khambatta) and in the final episode of in 1996 (with William Windom and David Ogden Stiers). He also had recurring roles on and the sitcom and a regular role as Fritz Heath on , opposite Joan Collins.
Tigar was one of several Star Trek guest stars to later appear on , along with William Windom, Roger Perry, Paul Comi, Clyde Kusatsu, Robert DoQui, Nehemiah Persoff, Clive Revill, Eve Smith, Nicholas Coster, Robert Hooks, and Ian Wolfe. Lead actor Armin Shimerman also made a brief appearance in the show's seventh season premiere episode.
Tigar made his film debut in (1975, co-starring Richard Lynch and Vincent Schiavelli). Since then, he has appeared primarily in made-for-TV movies, although he has made the occasional motion picture, including (1985, co-starring Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, Ian Wolfe, and Jeff Corey), (1988), (1989, with Mark Rolston, Jenette Goldstein, and Sherman Howard), (1992, with Vince Howard, (1996, with Terry O'Quinn, Tony Plana, Alfre Woodard, Brian Reddy, Christopher Carroll, Mike Boss, Greg Bronson, and Azalea Davila), and (1997, with Patrick Stewart and Bert Remsen).
Tigar once guest starred in . Other Star Trek stars who were cast members include David Birney, Karen Austin, Ron Canada, Jeff Yagher, Bruce McGill and Sam Anderson. Star Trek stars who also guest starred include Casey Biggs, Chase Masterson, Dion Anderson, John Schuck, Lee Arenberg, Hal Landon, Jr. and Cully Fredricksen.
More recently, Tigar had guest roles on (2008) and as Warden Johan Lennox in two episodes of J.J. Abrams' (2008, alongside Billy Burke and Philip LeStrange). In 2012, he appeared in (2012, starring Chris Hemsworth and featuring Damion Poitier), and from 2013 had the recurring role of Republican Senator Paul Mower in the Amazon series Alpha House.
==Other Trek connections==
Additional film and TV projects in which Tigar appeared with other Star Trek performers include:
===Feature films===
*The Babysitter (1980) with William Shatner
*Gangster Wars (1981) with Jonathan Banks
*Just One of the Guys (1985) with Clayton Rohner, Leigh J. McCloskey, Stuart Charno, and Katy Boyer
*The Runnin' Kind (1989) with Julie Cobb, James Cromwell, and Phil Rubenstein
*Snapdragon (1993) with Matt McCoy and Irene Tsu
* (1995) with Donna Murphy
*Cadillac Ranch (1996) with Christopher Lloyd and Jim Metzler
*Riot (1997) with Charles Napier and Patrick Kilpatrick
*Hollywood Safari (1997) with John Savage
*A Thousand Acres (1997) with John Carroll Lynch and Bob Gunton
*A Question of Faith (2000) with Martha Hackett and Randy Oglesby
===TV guest appearances===
*Barney Miller episode "Werewolf" (1976) with Ron Glass, James Gregory, Jon Lormer, and Janet MacLachlan
*Barney Miller episode "The Ghost" (1978) with Ron Glass, James Gregory, and Nehemiah Persoff
* (1978) with Dallas Mitchell and Scott Marlowe
*Barnaby Jones episode "Fatal Overture" (1979) with Lee Meriwether, Scott Marlowe, and Earl Boen
*Barney Miller episode "Possession" (1981) with Ron Glass, James Gregory, and Phil Rubinstein
* (1983) with Tim Culbertson and Walter Smith
* (1984) with John Colicos
* episodes "Simon Without Simon: Part 1" and "Part 2" (1985) with Ray Buktenica
*Cheers (1985) with Kelsey Grammer)
* (1986) with Corbin Bernsen
* (1987) with Paul Carr
*Night Court episode "Her Honor: Part 4" (1987) with John Larroquette and Alan Oppenheimer
* (1990) with Richard Herd
*The Flash episode "Alpha" (1991) with Dick Miller
*L.A. Law (1991) with Paul Sorvino
*(1993) with Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, Robert Hooks, and Salome Jens
*Mad About You episode "The Tape" (1994) with Anne Elizabeth Ramsay
* (1996) with Jack Kehler, Ron Canada, Gregory Itzin, Neal McDonough, and Rick Worthy
 (1998) with Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks
*Family Law episode "Family Values" (2000) with Christopher McDonald, Salli Elise Richardson, Penny Johnson, and John Rubinstein
* (2002) with Paul Winfield
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