American actor, known for Barney Miller and Firefly, who played Loken, the Kraylor passenger who persuades Harry Kim to take command, in the Voyager episode Nightingale.
Ron Glass (1945 to 2016) was an American actor best known as Detective Ron Harris in Barney Miller and as Shepherd Book in Firefly and Serenity.
In the seventh-season Voyager episode Nightingale he played Loken, a Kraylor found aboard a damaged ship whose officers have been killed. Presenting himself as a doctor carrying medical supplies through a blockade, he asks Harry Kim to captain the vessel home.
Kim, eager for a first command, agrees and names the ship Nightingale. Loken is later exposed as a scientist, and the cargo as a cloaking system his people need against the Annari.