Star Trek & Stargate: ARMIN SHIMERMAN
Michael Dorn has played a Klingon more than anyone else. Andrew Robinson has played a Cardassian more than anyone else. When it comes to Ferengi characters, Armin Shimerman is king. Long before Quark was ever a thing, he played one of the first Ferengi ever: Letek in the 5th episode of TNG – The Last Outpost. The next season, he played DaiMon Bractor in Peak Performance. Once Deep Space Nine came along, Shimerman would put on the ears as Quark for all but 18 episodes. In fact, he also played Quark on TNG, Voyager, Lower Decks, and Very Short Treks. Quark was supposed to be in Insurrection, but those scenes got cut.
Oh yeah, Shimerman was also the Betazoid Gift Box in TNG’s Haven, and he played a human character named Herbert Rossoff in DS9’s excellent Far Beyond the Stars. This guy was busy.
In 1997, he jumped over to Stargate SG-1 for one episode to play Anteaus of The Nox – one of the Four Great Races (along with the Alterans, Asgard, and Furlings).
