Irish actor who twice played the holodeck recreation of Albert Einstein in The Next Generation, in The Nth Degree and in the poker game that opens Descent.
Jim Norton is an Irish actor known for his stage work, including a Tony-winning performance in The Seafarer, and for playing Bishop Brennan in the comedy series Father Ted.
In the fourth-season episode The Nth Degree he appears as a holographic Albert Einstein, with whom the suddenly brilliant Reginald Barclay debates physics at a blackboard on the holodeck.
Norton repeated the role in Descent, in which Data sets up a poker game with Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, the last played by Hawking himself. The scene ends when a red alert calls Data to the bridge.