American actor, known for Desperate Housewives and JAG, who played Major Hayes, commander of the MACO detachment aboard Enterprise, during the third-season Xindi mission.
Steven Culp is an American actor known for recurring roles in JAG, The West Wing and Desperate Housewives, and for playing Robert F. Kennedy in the film Thirteen Days.
In Star Trek: Enterprise he plays Major Hayes, leader of the Military Assault Command Operations team assigned to the ship for its mission into the Delphic Expanse. He appears in several third-season episodes, beginning with The Xindi in 2003. His friction with Malcolm Reed over responsibility for security comes to blows in Harbinger, and he is killed during the rescue of Hoshi Sato in Countdown.
Culp had earlier filmed scenes as Commander Martin Madden, Riker's intended replacement, for Star Trek Nemesis, but they were cut from the finished film.