Actor and director (1934–1972) who played Garth of Izar, the deranged former fleet captain, in the third-season Original Series episode Whom Gods Destroy.
Steve Ihnat was an actor born in Czechoslovakia in 1934 and raised in Canada, who became a busy guest player on American television in the 1960s. His films include Madigan (1968), and he wrote and directed the rodeo drama The Honkers (1972).
In Whom Gods Destroy he played Garth, once a Starfleet hero whose exploits Kirk studied at the Academy. Confined to the asylum on Elba II, Garth has learned to change his shape, takes over the colony and tries to seize the Enterprise by impersonating Kirk, crowning himself Lord Garth, master of the universe.
Ihnat died in 1972 at the age of thirty-seven.