Joseph Ruskin

Joseph Ruskin , born Joseph Richard Schlafman, was an American actor who appeared as Galt in the second season episode , Tumek in the third and fifth season episodes and , the Cardassian Informant in the Deep Space Nine third season episode , a Vulcan master in the fifth season episode , and Suliban doctor in the first season episode . Along with Majel Barrett, Clint Howard, Jack Donner, and Vince Deadrick, he was one of only five actors to appear in both The Original Series and Enterprise. He, Barrett, and Howard also appeared in Deep Space Nine.
Ruskin also worked on two Star Trek s, lending his voice to Master Si'tann in Star Trek: Hidden Evil in 1999 and to Admiral Nolotai and Vulcan Master N'Kal in Star Trek: Away Team in 2001.
Ruskin filmed his scenes for "The Gamesters of Triskelion" on Wednesday and between Friday and Tuesday at Paramount Test Stage and Desilu Stage 10.
Hailing from Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA, Ruskin, like William Schallert, Barry Gordon, and Kitty Swink, served on the Screen Actors Guild Executive Board of Directors, becoming a Trustee at the Screen Actors Guild Pension and Health Plan. Ruskin worked for the SGA between 1976 and 1999.
He had a long and distinguished career, appearing in television series as early as 1959. In his later years, he had a recurring role as Alliance Member Alain Christophe in J.J. Abrams' , as well as playing an elderly mob boss in (2006, featuring Chris Pine).
Ruskin died on at the age of 89 from natural causes at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. 
Other projects in which Ruskin appeared with fellow Trek performers include:
* The Magnificent Seven (1960, with Whit Bissell and John A. Alonzo)
* The Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" (1962, with David Armstrong, Theo Marcuse, and James Wellman)
* episode "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" (1964, with Leonard Nimoy, Rudy Solari, Barry Russo, Willard Sage, Robert Fortier, and Vic Perrin, makeup by Fred Phillips, and Robert H. Justman as production manager)
* episode "Revenge of the Gods" (1966, with James Darren, Whit Bissell, Lee Meriwether, Paul Carr, and Abraham Sofaer)
* Mission: Impossible episode "The Slave" (1967, with Antoinette Bower, Warren Stevens, Percy Rodrigues, and Sid Haig)
* episode "The Secret City of Limbo" (1969, with Don Marshall, Malachi Throne, and Whit Bissell)
* episode "The Most Deadly Species" (1974, with Vince Howard and Ruskin's 'Triskelion' co-star Steve Sandor)
* episode "The Tyrant" (1974, with Percy Rodrigues, Mark Lenard, Gary Combs, Ron Stein, and Tom Troupe, directed by Ralph Senensky, with cinematography by Jerry Finnerman)
*The Scorpion King (2002, with Dwayne Johnson and Branscombe Richmond)
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Galt.jpg|Galt
File:Tumek.jpg|Tumek
File:Cardassian informant.jpg|Cardassian Informant
File:Son'a officer 3.jpg|Son'a officer
File:Vulcan Master.jpg|Vulcan master
File:Suliban Doctor.jpg|Suliban doctor
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