American actor, later known as Dr Bob Kelso in Scrubs, who played the driven astrophysicist Dr Paul Stubbs in the third-season Next Generation opener Evolution.
Ken Jenkins is an American actor with a long background in regional theatre. He is best known as the chief of medicine Dr Bob Kelso in the comedy Scrubs.
In Evolution, the first episode broadcast in the third season of The Next Generation, he plays Dr Paul Stubbs, a scientist who has spent his career preparing to study a stellar explosion in the Kavis Alpha system that occurs once every 196 years.
When Wesley Crusher's escaped nanites disrupt the ship, Stubbs attacks them with radiation to protect his experiment, provoking a crisis that Data resolves by letting the nanites speak through him.