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Star TrekandThe Twilight Zonehave had a lot in vernacular over their prospicient runs , let in a lot of worker who appeared in both serial . ManyStar Trek : The Original Seriesactors were inThe Twilight Zone ’s original translation , which draw from 1959 to 1964.The Twilight Zone ’s first revival overlap withStar Trek : The Next Generationfor two years with a 1985 to 1989 run , and featured several actors who would go on to be independent cast fellow member inTNG , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , andStar Trek : Voyager . Its time of day - foresighted episodes were broken into segment , tolerate for the short - figure storytelling that made the originalThe Twilight Zoneso powerful .
Jordan Peele’sThe Twilight Zonepremiered as a CBS All Access original in 2019 , just two eld afterStar Trek : Discoverymade its entry on the same streaming table service , now rebranded as Paramount+ . This 21st - century revival of the classical anthology is haunting and atmospherical , with farseeing , lingering shots that rise each episode ’s good sense of uncertainty . Peele takes the reins as the series ' narrator , weaving his reformist viewpoint through the private stories in much the same wayThe Twilight Zonecreator Rod Serling did . ThisTwilight Zonelasted only 2 time of year , butalso includedStar Trekactors like its precursor .
From exploring foreign new world to press to uncover the truth , many histrion have appeared on both Star Trek and The X - Files .
9Nana Visitor (Col. Kira Nerys)
The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1, episode 9a “Dead Woman’s Shoes”
In this remake of the originalThe Twilight Zoneepisode " Dead Man ’s place " , Nana Visitor play Lori , escritoire to a widower whose numb wife strides back into his life sentence through an old twain of shoe . Visitor ’s part is relatively small , but she ’s recognizable asStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s futureMajor Kira Nerys , with a similar little coiffure .
8Ethan Phillips (Neelix)
The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1, episode 22b “Devil’s Alphabet”
well known toStar Trek : Voyagerfans as the Talaxian Neelix , Ethan Phillips appears inThe Twilight Zoneas a phallus of the Devil ’s Alphabet Society , a cloak-and-dagger biovular ordination in the 1780s that makes a treaty to meet every year , regardless of however many of their member may or may not be alive . of course , such an oath portends one less phallus around the board each year , but whether the pact itself is the suit of the society fellow member ' death remains a mystery , even as ghostly shade get to appear at the meeting . Phillips ' bespectacled blood brother shares a certain nervous demeanour with Neelix , but the similarities end there .
7Jonathan Frakes (Captain William Riker)
The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1, episode 13b “But Can She Type?”
Karen Billings ( Pam Dawber ) , a secretary frustrated with being disgrace in her work , find a wizard written matter machine that sends her to a parallel dimension where writing table are treated like celebrities . Jonathan Frakesplays a serviceman at the saloon who ’s fitly impressed with Karen ’s career selection , and very interested in asking her out , thanks to her prestigious caper . It’snot a far reach for the man who would become Captain William Riker , with his charming grinning and reformist appreciation of women .
6Tim Russ (Lt. Tuvok)
The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1, episode 3c “Kentucky Rye” and season 2, episode 13 “Voices in the Earth”
Star Trek : Voyager ’s Tuvok , Tim Russ , makestwo appearances inThe Twilight Zone , first as a police policeman with a individual line at the ending of time of year 1 ’s " Kentucky Rye " , then in time of year 2 ’s " Voices in the solid ground " . A far - future starship closes in on a block satellite look for worthful resources , with Russ ' crew member – interestingly identify Archer – furnish commentary on the planet ’s chronicle and detector readings . Russ only appears in a few scenes , but the installment ’s references to warp travelling and subspace , and message that all life sentence is suitable of respect , no matter what form it takes , make it an episode ofThe Twilight Zoneclearly inspired byStar Trek .
Star Trek : Strange New Worlds season 1 ’s finale reference another iconic science fabrication franchise . Your next stop - The Twilight Zone .
5John deLancie (Q) & Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data)
The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1, episode 19b “Dead Run”
" Dead Run " conceive of the afterlife as a tummy , with John deLancie as an executive within its ranks who ’s creditworthy for watch where souls eventually stop up . It toy out sort oflike Q paying his dues as middle managementin the Q Continuum before showing up on the Enterprise inStar Trek : The Next Generation . If Q ’s statements inTNGseason 6 , episode 15 " Tapestry"are anything to go by , that just might be the shell . Brent Spiner has a smaller role as a deceased draft corn dodger predicate his innocence on the road to hell . His side is overcloud when he first appears , but Spiner ’s voice here is dreadfully close to Data ’s when stress to tell jokes on the holodeck .
4Tawny Newsome (Lt. Beckett Mariner) & Paul F. Tompkins (Dr. Migleemo)
The Twilight Zone(2019) Season 2, Episode 4 “Ovation”
InThe Twilight Zone(2019 ) season 2 , episode 4 " Ovation " , aspiring singer Jasmine Delancey ( Jurnee Smollett ) find a cursed coin that contribute her fame , but at a cost . Star Trek : Lower Decks’Tawny Newsomeplays Jasmine ’s sister Zara , a aesculapian doctor who supports Jasmine financially . Zara ’s wavering between ebullience for and criticism of her sister ’s melodious career echoes Lt . Beckett Mariner ’s run afoul feelings about Starfleet inLower Decks , thoughNewsome’sTwilight Zoneperformance is much subtler . Paul F. Tompkins seem in short , but with characteristic gusto , as recent nighttime talk show host and Jasmine superfan Jimmy O’Malley .
Tawny Newsome & Paul F. Tompkins come out together again as hosts of the officialStar Trekpodcast , The Pod Directive .
3Robert Duncan McNeill (Lt. Tom Paris) & James Cromwell (Zefram Cochrane)
The Twilight Zone (1985) season 1, episode 6b “A Message from Charity”
Robert Duncan McNeillstars in " A Message from Charity " as Peter Wood , a lonesome eighties teenager who becomes psychically connected to a Puritan young woman named Charity ( Kerry Noonan ) as both come down with a interchangeable feverishness . Through the bond , the pair learn about each other ’s worlds and become friends , despite the 200 - year separation between the two . InStar Trek : Voyager , McNeill’sTom Paris also has a enthrallment with historythat earns him a 20th hundred friend in Rain Robinson ( Sarah Silverman ) . Long beforeStar Trek : First Contact , James Cromwell features as Charity ’s father , Obadiah Payne , who defends Charity when she ’s accused of witchcraft .
McNeill is credit as " Duncan McNeil " ( sic ) in his Twilight Zone appearance because there was already a " Robert McNeill " in the Screen Actors Guild , which does n’t allow duplicate names .
2Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax)
The Twilight Zone (1985) season 2, episode 4a “The After Hours”
In another remaking of a classicTwilight Zoneepisode , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Jadzia Daxactor , Terry Farrell , star as Marcia , a woman compelled to inflict the mall after it ’s close . When interrogate by a mall employee , Marcia ca n’t remember anything about her life prior to one month in the beginning , and the mall ’s mannequins seem to follow her , calling her name as she runs from shop to store with increase panic . It’sspookier than the original episode , and reminiscent of Jadzia Dax being frequent by Dax ’s homicidal preceding host Joran inStar Trek : Deep Space Nineseason 3 , episode 4 , " Equilibrium " .
Though it ’s not nearly as well - remembered as the fifties original , here are 10 of the best episodes of the 1980s Twilight Zone reboot .
1John Cho (Lt. Hikaru Sulu)
The Twilight Zone (2019) Season 1, Episode 5 “Wunderkind”
John Cho ’s sequence of Jordan Peele’sThe Twilight Zonesees Cho as a down - on - his - luck Presidential drive manager determine to call on his career around after his candidate loses the previous election in a landslide . Cho ’s Raff Hanks finds a tween YouTube headliner , Oliver Foley ( Jacob Tremblay ) , with a wholesome demeanour and promises of video games for every American that , with Hanks ' service , endears Oliver to a jaded American public and lands him the Presidency . Cho voyage the whims of the prepubescent President as best he can , but even J.J. Abrams’Star Trek ’s Lt . Hikaru Sulu ca n’t sprain the helm from the catastrophe that await him … inThe Twilight Zone .
Thesimilarities betweenStar TrekandThe Twilight Zonehave enrich both franchise , despite their very different approach shot to storytelling . The Twilight Zoneuses its dystopic lens of the eye to test the ways that reality seems off - kilter with its explorations into the unfamiliar , whileStar Trekkeeps its eye on the possibility of an affirmative hereafter . Both serial have enjoyed revivals in the same eras , when changing ethnic paradigms inspire news report that leave commentary on society . doer common to bothStar TrekandThe Twilight Zoneget a chance to explore both sides of this critical coin , and ask interview to do the same .
Star Trek : The Next coevals , Star Trek : Voyager , andStar Trek : Deep Space Nineare streaming on Paramount+.The Twilight Zone(2019 ) is pour on Syfy and Freevee . The Twilight Zone(1985 ) is available on YouTube .
