American actor and director (1938–2010) who played the insulting Klingon officer Korax in The Trouble with Tribbles and Governor Karnas in The Next Generation's Too Short a Season.
Michael Pataki was an American actor and director, born in 1938, who worked steadily in television from the 1960s and appeared in films including Rocky IV and Halloween 4.
In the original Star Trek he plays Korax, the Klingon officer in the second-season episode The Trouble with Tribbles whose remarks about Kirk and then about the Enterprise provoke Scotty into starting a brawl aboard Space Station K-7.
Two decades later he appeared in the first season of The Next Generation, playing Karnas, the governor of Mordan IV, in Too Short a Season. Karnas stages a hostage crisis to draw out Admiral Mark Jameson, whom he blames for a long civil war. Pataki died in 2010.