American actor, born in 1948 and known for horror films, who played an alien display officer at Starfleet Command in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Captain Rixx in The Next Generation.
Michael Berryman is an American actor whose distinctive appearance made him a fixture of horror and fantasy cinema, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Hills Have Eyes to Weird Science.
In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) he appears, under alien make-up, as a display officer in the Starfleet Command operations room in San Francisco, monitoring the whale probe's approach and the failure of Earth's power systems.
He returned in the first-season Next Generation episode Conspiracy as Rixx, the Bolian captain of the USS Thomas Paine, who joins Walker Keel and Tryla Scott in warning Picard of infiltration at Starfleet. Rixx was the first Bolian seen in Star Trek.