American actor who played the Vulcan elder of the P'Jem monastery in the Enterprise episode The Andorian Incident, with earlier roles in The Next Generation, Voyager and Star Trek: Insurrection.
Bruce French is an American character actor who has appeared across four Star Trek productions. In The Next Generation he played Sabin Genestra, the Betazoid aide to Admiral Satie, in The Drumhead. He was the Ocampa doctor in the Voyager pilot Caretaker and a Son'a officer in the film Star Trek: Insurrection.
On Star Trek: Enterprise he appears in The Andorian Incident as the elder who leads the monks at the ancient sanctuary of P'Jem.
The elder insists to Archer and to the Andorian intruders that the monastery is purely a place of contemplation. The discovery of a hidden listening post beneath it shows that he has been concealing the truth.