John Durbin

John Durbin is the Iowa-born actor who played the role of Ssestar in the first season episode . He went on to appear again on The Next Generation, playing Gul Lemec in the sixth season episode and . He later appeared as Traidy in the fifth season episode and as Telsian Miner in the seventh season episode . His costume from his very first Star Trek appearance in was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. 
Durbin made his acting debut as a corpse in (1985, featuring Drew Deighan and makeup by Ken Myers). Durbin would go on to have similarly small roles in films such as (1988, with Lee Arenberg, Katy Boyer, Mary Crosby, and John Fleck), Dead Man Walking (1988, with Jeffrey Combs, Leland Crooke, and Biff Yeager), Cyborg 2 (1993, with Tracey Walter), Heart and Souls (1993, starring Alfre Woodard, with Wren T. Brown, Janet MacLachlan, and Kurtwood Smith), and (1996). In 1993's , he played a psychology patient along with fellow Deep Space Nine guest actor Albert Henderson. (Thomas Kopache and Scott Thomson also had roles in this film.)
Durbin has, however, occasionally been seen in larger supporting roles. Such was the case in films like The Blue Iguana (1986, co-starring Dean Stockwell), (1989, also featuring Marjean Holden), (1989, with Ian Wolfe and Ann Magnuson), (1993), and (1999, with Zach Grenier). He was later seen in Take Out (2005, with Daniel Roebuck).
Outside of his Star Trek appearances, Durbin's guest starring credits include (starring Dwight Schultz and Lance LeGault), (1986, with Brent Spiner and series regular Bruce Davison), Crime Story (in a 1987 episode with Armin Shimerman and series regular Bill Smitrovich), (starring Matt Frewer, with W. Morgan Sheppard and Concetta Tomei), Melrose Place, Providence (another series with Concetta Tomei), and (with Daniel Dae Kim, John Rubinstein, and Keith Szarabajka). Durbin was seen in such made-for-TV movies as Tricks of the Trade (1987, with Armin Shimerman), (1988, with Bibi Besch and Brett Cullen), O Prioneers! (1992, with Deborah May), The Burden of Proof (1992, with Adrienne Barbeau, Neal McDonough, Gail Strickland, and Concetta Tomei), And the Band Played On (1993, with Christopher Carroll, Reg E. Cathey, David Clennon, Thomas Kopache, Dakin Matthews, Lawrence Monoson, Jeffrey Nordling, Saul Rubinek), and Truman (1995, with Holmes R. Osborne and Harris Yulin). He was also part of the cast of (1997, starring Steven Weber).
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Ssestar.jpg|Ssestar
File:Lemec.jpg|Gul Lemec
File:Traidy.jpg|Traidy
File:Telsian miner 3.jpg|Telsian miner
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