American-Canadian actor, born in 1958 and famous as Max Headroom, who played the bogus historian from the future Berlinghoff Rasmussen in the fifth-season episode A Matter of Time.
Matt Frewer is an American-Canadian actor, born in 1958, who became famous in the 1980s as the computer-generated television host Max Headroom. His later work includes Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Watchmen and the series Orphan Black.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation he guest stars in the fifth-season episode A Matter of Time, first shown in 1991. He plays Professor Berlinghoff Rasmussen, who arrives in a time pod claiming to be a historian from the twenty-sixth century come to observe the Enterprise. He is in fact a failed inventor from twenty-second-century New Jersey who stole the pod and plans to take home future technology, and Data, to sell as his own.