American actor, born in 1962, who played Midshipman Peter Preston, the young engineering trainee who dies at his post, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Ike Eisenmann is an American actor who began as a child performer in the 1970s, most famously in Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain and its sequel. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) he played Midshipman First Class Peter Preston, an eager engineering cadet aboard the Enterprise.
Preston stays at his station when the Reliant's surprise attack wrecks the engine room, and dies of his injuries in sickbay with Kirk and Scotty beside him. Scenes restored in the television and director's versions of the film establish that he is Scotty's nephew, which explains the engineer's grief.
Eisenmann later worked mainly in voice acting and post-production sound.