American actor who played Captain Clark Terrell in The Wrath of Khan and the Tamarian captain Dathon in the Next Generation episode Darmok.
Paul Winfield, an American actor, appeared in two of the franchise's most admired stories. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan he played Captain Clark Terrell of the USS Reliant, and in the Next Generation episode Darmok he played Dathon, the Tamarian captain who strands himself with Picard on a hostile world to teach a language spoken entirely in metaphor.
Winfield earned an Academy Award nomination for Sounder and also appeared in The Terminator and many television productions. He died in 2004.