American actor who played L.Q. Sonny Clemonds, the easy-going twentieth-century country musician revived from cryonic sleep, in the Next Generation episode The Neutral Zone.
Leon Rippy is an American character actor known for Tom Nuttall in Deadwood and the angel Earl in Saving Grace, and for roles in several Roland Emmerich films including Stargate and The Patriot.
In the first-season Next Generation finale The Neutral Zone he plays L.Q. Clemonds, called Sonny, one of three people from the late twentieth century found frozen aboard an old satellite and revived by Dr Crusher.
A musician who lived hard, Sonny adapts to the twenty-fourth century more cheerfully than his companions, befriending Data and asking mainly where he can find a guitar and a drink.