American stage and screen actor (1918–1980) who played Dr Roger Korby, Christine Chapel's lost fiancé, in the Original Series episode What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Michael Strong was an American actor, born in 1918, who was a member of the Actors Studio and appeared on Broadway before becoming a familiar television guest player. His films include Point Blank (1967) and Patton (1970).
In the first-season episode What Are Little Girls Made Of? he played Dr Roger Korby, the celebrated archaeologist missing for five years on the frozen planet Exo III. Korby has survived by transferring his mind into an android body and plans to spread android replacements through the Federation, beginning with a copy of Kirk. Confronted by Christine Chapel with how little of the man remains, he destroys himself and Andrea.
Strong died in 1980.