American actor who played Jack, the manic and aggressive leader of the group of genetically engineered patients, in two Deep Space Nine episodes.
Tim Ransom is an American actor with stage, film and television credits, including guest roles in a range of American series.
In Deep Space Nine he plays Jack, one of four institutionalised people whose childhood genetic enhancement went wrong. Jack is brilliant, restless and hostile, forever pacing and snapping out insults. He is introduced in the sixth-season episode Statistical Probabilities, in which the group's analysis of the war leads them to conclude that the Federation must surrender, and Jack tries to pass secrets to the Dominion.
He returns in the seventh-season episode Chrysalis, helping Bashir devise the treatment that wakes Sarina.