American actor, known as Detective Dutch Wagenbach in The Shield, who played Lieutenant Ducane in Voyager's Relativity and the FBI agent Martin Wells in Star Trek: Picard.
Jay Karnes is an American actor, born in 1963, best known for seven seasons as Detective Holland Wagenbach in The Shield, with later roles in Sons of Anarchy and Burn Notice.
His first Star Trek part came in the Voyager episode Relativity (1999), in which he plays Lieutenant Ducane, the 29th-century officer of the timeship Relativity who drills Seven of Nine for her mission into the past.
He returned in the second season of Star Trek: Picard as Martin Wells, an FBI agent in 2024 Los Angeles who has been obsessed with aliens since a childhood encounter with Vulcans. Glimpsed at the close of Monsters, he interrogates Picard and Guinan in Mercy before learning the harmless truth behind his memory.