American actor, director and producer, born in 1937, who played Admiral Morrow, the Starfleet commander who refuses Kirk permission to return to Genesis, in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Robert Hooks is an American actor and a co-founder of the Negro Ensemble Company, with a long career on Broadway, in the television series N.Y.P.D. and in films such as Trouble Man and Passenger 57.
In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) he played Admiral Morrow, Commander, Starfleet. Morrow greets the damaged Enterprise in Spacedock and tells her crew that the twenty-year-old ship will be decommissioned rather than refitted.
Later, in the officers' lounge, he turns down Kirk's plea to take the Enterprise back to the Genesis planet, dismissing Sarek's talk of Spock's katra as Vulcan mysticism and warning Kirk not to destroy his career. Kirk steals the ship anyway.