Australian actor, known as Alan Carter in Space: 1999, who played the shuttle captain Dirgo in The Next Generation and the Orion Syndicate man Liam Bilby in Deep Space Nine.
Nick Tate is an Australian actor best known to science-fiction audiences as the Eagle pilot Alan Carter in Space: 1999.
In The Next Generation's fourth-season episode Final Mission he plays Dirgo, the stubborn mining-shuttle captain who crashes on a desert moon with Picard and Wesley Crusher and dies ignoring their advice.
In the sixth-season Deep Space Nine episode Honor Among Thieves he plays Liam Bilby, a mid-level Orion Syndicate operative on Farius Prime who befriends the undercover Miles O'Brien and vouches for him. O'Brien comes to like him, and Bilby knowingly goes to his death to protect his family.