American actor (1939–2022), known for Bridget Loves Bernie and St. Elsewhere, who played the Romulan senator Letant in the Deep Space Nine episode Tears of the Prophets.
David Birney was an American stage and television actor who starred in the sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie and played Dr Ben Samuels in the first season of St. Elsewhere.
He appears in the Deep Space Nine sixth-season finale Tears of the Prophets as Senator Letant, the Romulan representative in the allied war council that plans the invasion of the Chin'toka system.
Letant is sardonic and openly doubtful about Klingon enthusiasm, trading barbs with Martok, but he commits Romulan ships to the attack under Sisko's command.