American actor, famed as Frasier Crane, who guest-starred as Captain Morgan Bateson in the Next Generation time-loop episode Cause and Effect.
Kelsey Grammer, an American actor born in 1955, made a guest appearance as Captain Morgan Bateson in the fifth-season Next Generation episode Cause and Effect. Bateson commands the USS Bozeman, which emerges from a temporal causality loop to collide with the Enterprise-D, and the captain learns that he has been trapped for some ninety years.
Grammer is best known for playing the psychiatrist Frasier Crane on Cheers and on the spin-off Frasier, a run spanning more than twenty years.