Indian-American actor who appeared in three Star Trek series: as the Klingon B'iJik in The Next Generation, Vedek Yarka in Deep Space Nine and Jamin in Enterprise.
Erick Avari is an Indian-born American actor familiar from genre films such as Stargate, Independence Day and The Mummy.
His first Star Trek part was the Klingon functionary B'iJik in The Next Generation's Unification I. In the third-season Deep Space Nine episode Destiny he plays Yarka, a vedek who warns Sisko that a joint Bajoran and Cardassian project at the wormhole will fulfil an ancient prophecy of Trakor about vipers and the Celestial Temple.
He returned once more in the first season of Enterprise, in Terra Nova, as Jamin, the leader of the underground-dwelling descendants of a lost Earth colony.