American actor (1918–1996) who played Anan 7, head of the High Council of Eminiar VII, in the first-season Original Series episode A Taste of Armageddon.
David Opatoshu was an American actor, born in 1918, who began in the Yiddish theatre and went on to films including Exodus (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966). Late in life he won an Emmy Award for a guest role in the series Gabriel's Fire.
In A Taste of Armageddon he played Anan 7, the courteous leader of a world that has fought a war with its neighbour Vendikar by computer for five hundred years, its citizens reporting to be killed when the simulation lists them as dead. Anan declares the Enterprise destroyed and tries to trick the crew into beaming down. Kirk wrecks the war computers and leaves him to choose between real war and peace.
Opatoshu died in 1996.