Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review the background characters brought to life in Star Trek by actor Marco Rodriguez.
Rodriguez was a background actor who played a couple of different roles on The Next Generation. In the episode The Arsenal of Freedom, he plays a holographic recreation of Captain Paul Rice, one of Will Riker's former Academy classmates. The hologram is made by the Minosian weapon Echo Papa 607, which is trying to gather intelligence on Starfleet and the Enterprise. Will Riker sees through this ruse after testing the apparent Mr. Rice as follows.
QUOTE (the U.S.S. Lollipop)
In the episode The Wounded, Rodriguez plays a Cardassian named Glinn Telle. The Enterprise tries to prevent the beginning of another war with the Cardassians caused by a rogue Starfleet Captain. Telle is an assistant in a delegation of Cardassians who come aboard Enterprise to observe the ship while passing through some Cardassian space. He speaks much less in this role than he did as the fake Captain Rice.
Interestingly, stock footage from the Paul Rice episode was re-used in the finale All Good Things. He can be seen for the sharp-eyed viewer on a computer screen in this episode. So the character of Paul Rice is credited with multiple appearances, despite Rodriguez only ever donning a character costume once for each character.
QUOTE (the U.S.S. Lollipop)
In the episode The Wounded, Rodriguez plays a Cardassian named Glinn Telle. The Enterprise tries to prevent the beginning of another war with the Cardassians caused by a rogue Starfleet Captain. Telle is an assistant in a delegation of Cardassians who come aboard Enterprise to observe the ship while passing through some Cardassian space. He speaks much less in this role than he did as the fake Captain Rice.
Interestingly, stock footage from the Paul Rice episode was re-used in the finale All Good Things. He can be seen for the sharp-eyed viewer on a computer screen in this episode. So the character of Paul Rice is credited with multiple appearances, despite Rodriguez only ever donning a character costume once for each character.
Marco Rodriguez did not have any further Trek appearances, but he can be seen in other movies including High School High and Million Dollar Baby. In 2019, you will be able to see him in the mystery crime film from Quentin Tarantino entitled Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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