American actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who played the investigator Dexter Remmick in the first-season Next Generation episodes Coming of Age and Conspiracy.
Robert Schenkkan is an American actor and writer who played Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick in The Next Generation. In Coming of Age Remmick, from the Inspector General's office, interrogates the Enterprise-D senior staff on Admiral Quinn's orders and ends by asking to serve aboard the ship.
In Conspiracy Remmick is revealed as host to the mother creature controlling the parasites that have infiltrated Starfleet Command, and he is destroyed by Picard and Riker in one of the series' most graphic scenes.
Schenkkan became better known as a dramatist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Kentucky Cycle, wrote the play All the Way and co-wrote the film Hacksaw Ridge.