American producer, writer and director, born in 1962, who was associate producer of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and played the punk whom Spock silences with a nerve pinch.
Kirk Thatcher is an American producer, writer and director, later closely associated with the Jim Henson Company and the Muppets. He worked on creature effects for Star Trek III and served as associate producer on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
He also appears in the film as the punk on a San Francisco bus who refuses to turn down his blaring stereo until Spock renders him unconscious, to applause from the passengers. Thatcher wrote and performed the song heard from the stereo, I Hate You.
In 2022 he reprised the character, now older and far more polite, in the Star Trek: Picard second-season episode Watcher, when Seven of Nine and Raffi ride a Los Angeles bus.