American actor, born in 1952, who played Sojef, a leader of the Ba'ku village and father of the boy Artim, in Star Trek: Insurrection.
Daniel Hugh Kelly is an American actor best known for the television series Hardcastle and McCormick and for films such as Cujo.
In Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) he played Sojef, one of the leading figures of the Ba'ku settlement. He welcomes Picard's party, explains with Anij that his people came to the planet three centuries earlier and gave up advanced technology by choice, and is wary of the android Data's friendship with his son Artim.
When the Son'a move to remove the villagers by force, Sojef helps lead the evacuation into the mountains, and at the end of the film he is reconciled to Data's place in the boy's affections.