Dakin Matthews

Dakin Matthews is a highly-prolific actor who played Admiral Patterson in the fifth season episode .
A theater scholar, playwright, and former drama teacher, Matthews has had a lengthy career on the stage, but only broke into television in the 1980s. His first television role was a guest appearance in . Also guest starring in this episode were fellow Trek guest performers Daniel Davis and Deborah May. Matthews followed this with a 1986 appearance on , starring William Daniels,Jeff Allin, Ed Begley, Jr., Norman Lloyd, Deborah May, France Nuyen, Alfre Woodard, and Jane Wyatt. That same year, Matthews had a small role in the mini-series Fresno, which also featured the likes of Henry Darrow, Terri Garr, Jack Kehler, and George D. Wallace.
Matthews went on to guest star in many other TV shows, including (starring Glenn Corbett, Leigh J. McCloskey, Derek McGrath, William Smithers, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Morgan Woodward), (starring Roy Brocksmith, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Ray Walston), (starring Scott Bakula), , (starring Gordon Clapp), , (starring Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, and John Savage and guest-starring John Fleck and Scott MacDonald), and . He also guest-starred in an episode of with Voyager star Connor Trinneer and an episode of The Lyon's Den with Voyager stars Roxann Dawson and Robert Picardo (as well as Scott MacDonald, Steven Weber, and Rick Worthy). More recently, he was seen on , starring René Auberjonois and William Shatner (in an episode also featuring Ann Cusack).
Matthews has also had recurring roles on a number of series, including (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake), The Practice (along with Daniel Davis, Bruce Davison, Randy Oglesby, and Tracy Middendorf), (along with Ron Canada, Cliff DeYoung, Lawrence Pressman, and Paul Sorvino), (starring Steven Culp, Teri Hatcher, Mark Moses, and Alfre Woodard and also guest-starring Bob Gunton), and (along with John Billingsley, Larry Cedar, and Biff Yeager). In addition, Matthews was one of the many Trek performers to appear in the 1998 mini-series From the Earth to the Moon. His co-stars on this series include David Andrews, David Clennon, Ronny Cox, Ann Cusack, Clint Howard, John Carroll Lynch, Deborah May, Andy Milder, Holmes R. Osborne, Ethan Phillips, Harve Presnell, Mark Rolston, Stephen Root, and Alan Ruck.
In 1987, Matthews made his film debut in , starring Catherine Hicks, Armin Shimerman and Kitty Swink. Since then, he has appeared in such films as (1988, with Malcolm McDowell and Andreas Katsulas), (1991, with Tim Russ), (1997, with Clancy Brown, Christopher McDonald, and Wil Wheaton), and (2000, with Steven Culp, Kevin Conway, Bill Smitrovich, Tim Kelleher, Len Cariou, Ed Lauter, Boris Krutonog, and Charles Esten).
== Other Trek connections ==
Additional projects in which Matthews appeared with other Trek performers include:
* (1987) with Jason Wingreen
*Something Is Out There episode "Don't Look Back" (1988) starring Gregory Sierra
*Dear John episode "The Younger Girl" (1988) with William Sadler
*TV 101 episode "Home" (1988) with Ron Canada and Leon Russom
*Funny Farm (1988 film) with Kevin Conway, Mike Starr, William Newman, Dan Desmond, Reg E. Cathey, and David Williams
*My Two Dads episode "Michael's Big Sister Comes Over and Visits" (1988) with John Fleck
* Christine Cromwell episode "Easy Come, Easy Go" (1989) with Theodore Bikel
* (1989 film) with Albert Hall and Gregory Itzin
* Body Wars (1989 film/theme park attraction) directed by Leonard Nimoy
* (1990 film) with Eric Menyuk, Jeanne Mori, and Ivonne Perez
* (1991 film) with Brad Dourif, Ron Fassler, and Andrew Robinson
* (1992) with Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake and Daniel Davis
* (1992) with Richard Riehle and Mark Rolston
* L.A. Law (1992) with Corbin Bersen, Larry Drake, Graham Jarvis, Salome Jens, and Richard Riehle, (1992) with Bersen, Drake, John Fleck and Camille Saviola (1993) with Bersen, Drake and Lawrence Dobkin
* Murder, She Wrote (1993) with Fionnula Flanagan, Andrew Robinson, and Mark Rolston
* Undercover Blues (1993 film) with Saul Rubinek
* (1994, with Robert Picardo, Jacqueline Kim, Fionnula Flanagan, Ken Jenkins, Dan Kern, Brian Markinson, Dan Gilvezan, Gina Ravarra, Brett Porter, Ken Thorley, Don McManus and stuntman Tom Lupo)
* Murder, She Wrote (1995) with Ann Cusack, Robert Hooks, and William Windom
* Ink episode "High Noon" (1996) starring Saul Rubinek
* (1997 film) with Harris Yulin and Larry Drake
* Vengeance Unlimited episode "Ambition" (1998) with Cary-Hiroyuki
* The Nanny episode (1999) starring Daniel Davis
* Family Law episode "Decisions" (1999) with Christopher McDonald and Salli Elise Richardson
* The Michael Richards Show episode "Discrimination" (2000) with Bill Cobbs
* (2000) with Albert Hall
* Citizen Baines episode "Lost and Found" (2001) with James Cromwell, Matt McCoy, and Rosalind Chao
* (2002) with Lanei Chapman
* (2002) with Jeffrey Nordling
* (2004) with Gordon Clapp and Michael Bofshever, (2004) with Clapp and Charles Esten, (2004) with Clapp
* Shark episode "Gangster Wars" (2007) with Jeri Ryan
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