American actor, born in 1949 and known for St. Elsewhere, who played the 1990s computer magnate Henry Starling in the two-part Voyager story Future's End.
Ed Begley Jr. is an American actor, born in 1949, who earned a string of Emmy nominations as Dr. Victor Ehrlich in St. Elsewhere and has appeared in many of Christopher Guest's comedies. He is also known as an environmental campaigner.
In Star Trek: Voyager he guest stars in the two-part third-season story Future's End, first shown in 1996. He plays Henry Starling, who in 1967 found the crashed twenty-ninth-century timeship Aeon and built a computer empire, Chronowerx, on technology taken from it. By 1996 he plans to fly the ship into the future for more, a journey that would destroy the solar system.
Starling is also the one who gives the Doctor his mobile emitter.