American actor (1933–1993) who originated the role of Zefram Cochrane, inventor of warp drive, in the second-season Original Series episode Metamorphosis.
Glenn Corbett was an American actor, born in 1933, who played Linc Case in the later seasons of Route 66, appeared in westerns such as Chisum (1970) and had a recurring role as Paul Morgan in Dallas.
In Metamorphosis he played Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri, the discoverer of the space warp, who vanished at the age of eighty-seven. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Commissioner Nancy Hedford find him young again on a planetoid in the Gamma Canaris region, kept alive for a century and a half by an energy being he calls the Companion.
The character was later played as an older man by James Cromwell in Star Trek: First Contact. Corbett died in 1993.