Bert Remsen

Bert Remsen portrayed Kubus Oak in the second season episode . Hailing from Glen Cove, Long Island in New York, Remsen died of heart failure in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California.
Remsen made his film debut in (1959, with Paul Comi and Clarence Williams III). Afterward, he became a cast member on , starring Robert Lansing and Frank Overton. In 1964, he suffered a broken back during an on-set accident and, unable to act, became a casting director. He returned to acting full time in the 1970s.
Like his Deep Space Nine co-star René Auberjonois and Trek alumni John Schuck and Sally Kellerman, Remsen appeared in several films by director . He even co-starred with Auberjonois, Schuck, and Kellerman in the films Brewster McCloud (1970, also with William Windom) and McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). In 1971, he appeared in an episode of Columbo alongside William Shatner and Walter Koenig. He also appeared in Altman's 1974 films California Split, featuring John Winston, and Thieves Like Us, with John Schuck, Keith Carradine and Remsen's "Collaborator" co-star Louise Fletcher. In 1975, he had a role in Altman's Nashville, co-starring Robert DoQui and Henry Gibson, and in 1976, he was in another Altman film, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, also featuring Robert DoQui. The last film he made with Altman was 1978's A Wedding, co-starring Paul Dooley, Robert Fortier, and Gavan O'Herlihy).
Remsen also had recurring role in the 1987 season of , with Mitchell Ryan, William Windom, , Kathryn Leigh Scott, Mary Crosby, Tracy Scoggins, Joshua Harris, Joseph Campanella, Michele Scarabelli, Allan Miller, and Conroy Gedeon, among others.
In 1990, he appeared in Peacemaker, which co-starred Hilary Shepard Turner, and with John Schuck, Seymour Cassel, Paul Sorvino, Robert Costanzo, Hamilton Camp, Michael J. Pollard, Ian Wolfe, and Colm Meaney. In 1994, he and fellow Trek alumni William Marshall and Henry Darrow appeared as poker players in the film Maverick. In 1995, Remsen appeared in , with F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Davies, Catherine Hicks, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jeffrey Combs, Clint Howard, Joe Maruzzo, and Jessica Hendra. In 1997, he appeared as a judge in the thriller Conspiracy Theory, which starred Patrick Stewart.
Some of Remsen's many other films include (1972, co-starring Steve Ihnat and Stewart Moss), (1976, with Ted Cassidy), (1980, starring John Savage), (1984, featuring Terry O'Quinn), (1986, with Seymour Cassel), (1989, with Brent Spiner and Alfre Woodard), (1992, with Bill Cobbs and Mike Starr), A Walk in the Park (1999, with Ericka Klein), and (1999, with Ronny Cox, Anne Haney, George D. Wallace, Bill Erwin, and Shelly Desai).
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