https://archive.org/details/CharacterInsightEp273
As covered last week, James Horan holds the distinction of being the only actor to play a recurring Jem'Hadar character Ikat'ika in Deep Space Nine. However, Horan has also contributed many other characters across several Star Trek series.
In TNG, Horan played Dr. Jobril, a Takaran scientist who decides in the episode Suspicions to try and steal new metaphasic shielding technology. He commits murder and fakes his own death to try and steal this technology. Dr. Crusher foils the attempt and kills this character.
His next appearance is as Lieutenant Barnaby in the TNG episode Descent, Part II, who is a security officer who implements a daring plan to move the Enterprise relative to a Borg planet to rescue a stranded search party from the ship. Ironically, Dr. Crusher is in temporary command and discusses the use of this same metaphasic shielding with Barnaby in this episode, and he admits knowing the research on this tech as an easter egg callback to his prior appearance as Dr. Jobril.
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Taitt: "If your calculations are even slightly off, we'd hit the atmosphere."
Barnaby: "I'll have to be sure my calculations are accurate, Ensign."
Originally Barnaby was to become a recurring character, but plans for this were scrapped. That was probably fine with Horan, as he's indicated in interviews he preferred acting in alien makeup than not, thanks to the character being sort of made for you when wearing masks.
That brings us to his latter appearances, all being alien. These include DS9's Jem'Hadar Ikat'ika we profiled last week, the Kolaati trader named Tosin who is an antagonist in the Voyager episode Fair Trade, and as a pseudo time-traveling villain from the 28th Century from several episodes of Enterprise, known only as Humanoid Figure or as Future Guy. This latter role was developed to give another interesting story angle to the Suliban Cabal, and it's a character we will have to cover in detail on a future segment.
James Horan brought a lot of interesting villain characters to life, and that's definitely necessary when making episodic television. Outside Star Trek, Horan has been most successful as a soap opera actor in the 1980s and 1990s, and as a video game voice actor in recent years, including for World of Warcraft Legion. He can most recently be seen in The Orville as a Krill character for one episode, which might as well be considered yet another Trek appearance. He's originally from my neck of the woods in Kentucky, and that's where he does a lot of work from as he moves towards retirement age.
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