Actor who played the xenophobic Malcorian security minister Krola in The Next Generation's First Contact, and later guest roles in Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise.
Michael Ensign is an American-born actor, raised and trained partly in Britain, who has played many officials, butlers and hotel managers in film and television, including small parts in Titanic and Ghostbusters.
In First Contact he is Krola, the minister of internal security on Malcor III, who is convinced that the visitors from space mean invasion. To force the chancellor's hand he tries to make it look as though Riker has shot him, a ruse Dr Crusher exposes.
Ensign returned to Star Trek as the Vulcan ambassador Lojal in Deep Space Nine's The Forsaken, as the Takarian bard in Voyager's False Profits and as the Vulcan physician Oratt in the Enterprise episode Stigma.