American actor, an Emmy winner for the drama Family, who played Yedrin Dax, a future host of the Dax symbiont, in the Deep Space Nine episode Children of Time.
Gary Frank is an American actor who won an Emmy Award for playing Willie Lawrence in the 1970s drama series Family.
In the fifth-season Deep Space Nine episode Children of Time he plays Yedrin Dax, a leader of the settlement on Gaia, founded by the crew of the Defiant after the ship was thrown two centuries into the past.
Yedrin carries the Dax symbiont and so remembers Jadzia's life. He offers a plan that would supposedly let the Defiant leave while a duplicate crashes, and then admits it is a deception designed to make sure his people come to exist.