American actor and singer who played Croden, the Rakhari fugitive who tempts Odo with stories of other shape-shifters, in the first-season Deep Space Nine episode Vortex.
Cliff De Young is an American actor and musician with many film and television credits, among them Shock Treatment, Flight of the Navigator and Glory.
He appears in the Deep Space Nine episode Vortex as Croden, a criminal from the Gamma Quadrant world Rakhar who kills one of a pair of Miradorn twins during a botched deal in Quark's bar.
Held by Odo, Croden claims to know of a colony of changelings and produces a shape-shifting locket as proof. Much of the episode is a two-hander between De Young and Rene Auberjonois as Odo escorts him home, learning that Croden's real aim is to rescue his daughter Yareth.