American stage and television actor who played the Cardassian officer Gul Evek in The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, linking all three series through the Maquis storyline.
Richard Poe is an American actor with many Broadway credits and guest roles in television series such as Frasier and Law and Order.
He played Gul Evek, the Cardassian commander responsible for the Demilitarised Zone. Evek first appears in The Next Generation in Journey's End, negotiating over Dorvan V, and again in Preemptive Strike. In Deep Space Nine he is seen in Playing God, both parts of The Maquis and Tribunal, in which he testifies at the trial of Miles O'Brien.
Poe's last appearance in the role is in the Voyager pilot Caretaker, where Evek's warship pursues Chakotay's Maquis raider into the Badlands. The run makes Evek one of the few guest characters to appear in three Star Trek series.