English actor (1927–2019) who played Lieutenant Kyle, the Enterprise transporter chief, in The Original Series and returned as Commander Kyle in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
John Winston was an English-born actor, born in 1927, who worked in American television from the 1960s.
He played Kyle in eleven episodes of The Original Series, from Tomorrow Is Yesterday onward, usually at the transporter console and sometimes at the helm or a bridge science station. His most prominent outing is Mirror, Mirror, in which the mirror Kyle is punished with an agoniser, and he also supplied a computer voice in that episode. In The Animated Series the character was voiced by James Doohan.
Winston returned in 1982 as Commander Kyle, communications officer of the USS Reliant, marooned with Captain Terrell's crew by Khan. He died in 2019.