American actor (1929–2015) who played Avel Durken, the thoughtful Malcorian chancellor who decides his world is not ready for the Federation, in the Next Generation episode First Contact.
George Coe was an American stage, film and television actor, an original member of the Saturday Night Live company in its first season and an Academy Award nominee for a short film he co-directed. Later audiences knew his voice as Woodhouse in the animated series Archer.
In the fourth-season episode First Contact he plays Chancellor Avel Durken, leader of the Malcorians, to whom Picard and Troi reveal themselves as his people approach warp flight. Durken is curious and open-minded, sharing wine with Picard aboard the Enterprise-D.
After the injured Riker's discovery causes a crisis, however, he concludes that his society needs more time and asks the Federation to withdraw.