American actor, born in 1947 and known as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks, who played the Mintakan Liko in The Next Generation and the vengeful linguist Arturis in Voyager.
Ray Wise is an American actor, born in 1947, best known as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks; his films include RoboCop and Good Night, and Good Luck.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation he appears in the third-season episode Who Watches the Watchers, first shown in 1989. He plays Liko, a Mintakan who glimpses Federation technology and concludes that Picard is a god.
In 1998 he returned for Hope and Fear, the fourth-season finale of Star Trek: Voyager, as Arturis, an alien with an extraordinary gift for languages. Arturis blames Janeway's alliance with the Borg for the assimilation of his people and lures the crew with a counterfeit Starfleet ship, the USS Dauntless.