American actor and playwright who played Kashyk, the charming and treacherous Devore inspector who becomes close to Captain Janeway in the fifth-season Voyager episode Counterpoint.
Mark Harelik is an American actor and playwright with extensive credits in theatre, film and television.
His Star Trek role was Inspector Kashyk in the fifth-season Voyager episode Counterpoint. Kashyk commands the Devore warships that repeatedly search Voyager for telepaths, then arrives alone claiming he wants to defect. He and Janeway work together, and grow fond of each other, before he reveals that the defection was a ruse.
Harelik played Kashyk as cultured and courteous, with a taste for classical music, which made the eventual betrayal sharper. The episode is often counted among the strongest of the series' later seasons.