American actor who played the cyberneticist Bruce Maddox, creator of the synthetic twins Dahj and Soji, in the first-season Star Trek: Picard episode Stardust City Rag.
John Ales is an American film and television actor. In Star Trek: Picard he inherited the role of Dr Bruce Maddox, first played by Brian Brophy in the Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man.
Maddox is discussed throughout the early part of the first season as the missing scientist behind a new generation of androids. Ales appears in Stardust City Rag, where Maddox, his laboratory destroyed, seeks help from the gangster Bjayzl on Freecloud and is instead held for sale to the Tal Shiar.
Rescued by Picard, he explains that he sent Soji to the Borg Artifact to uncover the truth about the synth ban. He is then killed in La Sirena's sickbay by his former colleague Agnes Jurati.