American actor and academic (1941–2015) who played Lieutenant Kevin Riley in the first-season Original Series episodes The Naked Time and The Conscience of the King.
Bruce Hyde was an American actor, born in 1941, who worked on stage and television in the 1960s, including productions of the musical Hair.
He played Kevin Thomas Riley, a young navigator of the Enterprise. In The Naked Time an infected Riley locks himself in engineering, declares himself captain and serenades the ship with I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. In The Conscience of the King Riley is revealed as a survivor of the Tarsus IV massacre, is poisoned, and tries to take revenge on Kodos.
Hyde later earned a doctorate and became a professor of communication studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He died in 2015.