American actor (1928–2013) who voiced the Talosian Keeper in the first pilot, played Commodore Mendez in The Menagerie and returned as Senator Pardek in The Next Generation.
Malachi Throne was an American stage and television actor, born in 1928, known for a regular role in It Takes a Thief and for a rich voice much used in animation and commercials.
His Star Trek work began with the first pilot, The Cage, in which he supplied the voice of the Talosian Keeper. When that footage was reused in the two-part first-season story The Menagerie he appeared on screen as Commodore José Mendez, who presides at Spock's court martial, and the Keeper's voice was altered.
In 1991 he joined The Next Generation for the two-part Unification, playing Pardek, the Romulan senator whose long friendship with Spock hides a betrayal. Throne died in 2013.