English actor, known as Ethan Rayne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who played the predatory General Valen in the seventh-season Voyager episode The Void.
Robin Sachs (1951 to 2013) was an English actor familiar to genre audiences as Ethan Rayne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from several roles in Babylon 5 and as Sarris in Galaxy Quest.
In the seventh-season Voyager episode The Void he played General Valen, commander of a warship trapped, like Voyager, in a starless pocket of space where ships survive by raiding one another.
Valen greets the newcomers with advice and then steals their supplies. He stands for the way of life Janeway rejects when she forms an alliance of trapped crews based on sharing instead of plunder.