American character actor who played Admiral Owen Paris, father of Tom Paris, on Voyager and the Klingon L'Kor on The Next Generation.
Richard Herd was an American actor with a long career of supporting roles, well known to science fiction audiences as John, the Visitors' supreme commander in the miniseries V, and as Admiral William Noyce on seaQuest DSV. On The Next Generation he played the aging Klingon L'Kor in Birthright.
On Star Trek: Voyager he played Admiral Owen Paris, Tom Paris's demanding father, who oversaw Starfleet's effort to contact the lost ship in Pathfinder and later episodes. Herd died in 2020.