American actor, later known as Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad, who played the shell-shocked Starfleet soldier Vargas in the Deep Space Nine episode The Siege of AR-558.
Raymond Cruz is an American actor recognised for playing Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Detective Julio Sanchez in The Closer and Major Crimes.
In the seventh-season Deep Space Nine episode The Siege of AR-558 he plays Vargas, one of the exhausted Starfleet troops who have held a captured Dominion communications array for five months.
Vargas is close to breaking point, refusing to let anyone change a bandage applied by a comrade who has since died, and he threatens Quark at phaser point. He is killed in the final Jem'Hadar assault.