American actor born in 1929 who played the Greek god Apollo in the second-season Original Series episode Who Mourns for Adonais? and later became a prolific voice performer.
Michael Forest is an American actor, born in 1929, who worked steadily in film and television from the 1950s, including several pictures for Roger Corman and guest parts in westerns and adventure series.
In Star Trek he played Apollo in Who Mourns for Adonais?, the last of a band of space travellers once worshipped as gods on ancient Earth. Apollo seizes the Enterprise with a giant hand of energy, demands the crew's devotion and courts Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas before Kirk destroys the temple that is the source of his power.
Forest later built a long second career dubbing animation and foreign films, and reprised Apollo in 2013 in the fan-produced series Star Trek Continues.