American actor (1930–2017) and former child star who played two original series antagonists, the deputy Führer Melakon in Patterns of Force and Dr. Sevrin in The Way to Eden.
Skip Homeier was an American actor, born in 1930, who made his name as a child performer in the 1944 film Tomorrow, the World! and grew into a dependable player of villains in westerns and television drama.
He appears twice in the original Star Trek. In the second-season episode Patterns of Force he plays Melakon, the deputy who holds the real power on the planet Ekos behind a drugged figurehead. In the third-season episode The Way to Eden he plays Dr. Sevrin, a brilliant scientist and carrier of a dangerous disease who leads a band of young followers in search of the mythical planet Eden.
Homeier retired from acting in the early 1980s and died in 2017.