Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we continue our series on actors who played multiple roles in Star Trek, with a look at guest star William Lucking, who played a recurring role on Deep Space 9 and a one-time role on Enterprise.
William Lucking was born in Michigan in 1941 and he jumped right into acting in the 60s and 70s, playing in a lot of biker or hippie roles in those decades. He had a first marriage that lasted nearly 31 years before being widowed by breast cancer, and he remarried and has now been married to Sigrid Insull for over 20 years, so this is a rare person who has enjoyed 2 20+ year marriages in his life!
His roles in Star Trek started with DS9, where Lucking plays Furel, a member of the Shakaar resistance cell that Kira Nerys was a member of before the events of this show. Although Furel was not the leader of this cell, he was memorable because he was missing his left arm. We find out later that he lost that arm in a mission to save some of his friends after praying to the prophets to allow him to give up his life in exchange for saving theirs.
Furel's first appearance is in season 3, when he and the former Shakaar resistance cell members work together to resist Kai Winn's actions against farmers who resisted her orders to return some soil reclamators. His next appearance is in season 5 when he appears to warn Kira that someone is hunting and killing all of the resistance cell comrades. Unfortunately, the assassin figures out where he and former boss Lupaza were located and kills them with an explosive device .
A few episodes later in season 5, we receive a flashback episode where Kira's past with this resistance cell and with Furel is explained in more detail. Furel helped Kira exact revenge on some Cardassians when they drive her father from his homestead and mortally wound him in the process. This helps explain the close friendship and bonds seen in the earlier episodes.
QUOTE (from Ties of Blood and Water)
Later on, Lucking was cast again to play Harrad-Sar, an Orion privateer and villain in the Enterprise episode Bound. He offers three Orion slave girls to the Enterprise as a goodwill gesture towards setting up a mining agreement with Starfleet, but the real plan was to take over Enterprise using the slave girls pheromones and powers of suggestion, to capture Captain Archer for his crimes against the slave market in a prior episode. The Enterprise crew figures it out in time to save the ship, but this is one of the more memorable one-off episodes for Enterprise.
QUOTE (from Bound)
Lucking showed his range in playing these two very different characters in Star Trek. Ironically, one of his most notable roles in his acting career comes as a biker, consistent with those early decades of his career, in the show Sons of Anarchy. He plays Piney Winston, a regular on that show. This is one of his final acting credits, as he has not played in another role since a couple of guest appearances in 2013 and 14.
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