American actor, born in 1959, who played the child-like alien Balok in The Corbomite Maneuver at the age of seven and has returned for guest roles in four later Star Trek series.
Clint Howard is an American character actor, born in 1959, whose Star Trek career spans almost sixty years.
As a child he appears in The Corbomite Maneuver (1966) as the real Balok, the small, cheerful commander of the Fesarius who has been hiding behind a frightening puppet and who offers Kirk a glass of tranya. His lines were dubbed with an adult voice.
Howard later returned to the franchise several times: as Grady, a resident of a Sanctuary District, in Deep Space Nine's Past Tense, Part II; as the Ferengi Muk in the Enterprise episode Acquisition; as an Orion in the Discovery episode Will You Take My Hand?; and as Commander Martinez, a Starfleet medical officer on J'Gal, in the Strange New Worlds episode Under the Cloak of War.