American actor who played Bob Briggs, the director of the Cetacean Institute who ships the whales George and Gracie out early, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Scott DeVenney, an American character actor, has as his Star Trek role is Bob Briggs in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Briggs runs the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, where Doctor Gillian Taylor looks after the humpback whales George and Gracie. He is sympathetic but practical, arguing that the institute cannot afford to keep the animals and that they must be released into the open sea.
Knowing how hard Gillian will take the parting, he has the whales flown out overnight without telling her. She slaps him when she finds the tank empty, and it is this that sends her to Kirk for help. DeVenney's other credits include guest roles in television drama.