Actor who played Commander Sonak, the Vulcan officer chosen as the Enterprise's new science officer who is killed in a transporter malfunction, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Jon Rashad Kamal is an actor remembered by Star Trek viewers for a brief but memorable role in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
He plays Commander Sonak, a Vulcan whom Kirk meets at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco and who has been assigned as science officer of the refitted Enterprise in Spock's absence. Kirk tells him to report aboard, but when Sonak and another officer beam up, the ship's untested transporter fails. Despite the efforts of Kirk and Rand at the console, the two are horribly disfigured in transit and die on arrival at Starfleet.
The accident leaves the Enterprise without a science officer until Spock arrives. Kamal also acted in television drama of the period.