American character actor who played Commander Quinteros in the Next Generation episode 11001001, after two Original Series roles as the miner Ben Childress and the Gideon councillor Krodak.
Gene Dynarski (1933 to 2020) was an American character actor who appeared in three Star Trek episodes across two series. In the Original Series he played Ben Childress, leader of the lithium miners on Rigel XII, in Mudd's Women, and returned in the third season as Krodak, a member of the ruling council, in The Mark of Gideon.
Two decades later he joined The Next Generation for 11001001 as Commander Quinteros, the officer in charge of Starbase 74 who oversees the Bynars' maintenance of the Enterprise-D computer.
His other screen work included Steven Spielberg's Duel and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and guest roles in series such as Seinfeld.