British actor (1932–2019) with four Star Trek roles, including the dying cyberneticist Ira Graves, the Klingon commandant of Rura Penthe and the pilot Qatai in Voyager.
William Morgan Sheppard was a British actor, born in 1932, a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company who settled into a long career as a character and voice actor in the United States.
He first appeared in Star Trek in the second-season Next Generation episode The Schizoid Man, as Dr. Ira Graves, a dying scientist who transfers his mind into Data. In the 1991 film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country he plays the Klingon commandant who welcomes Kirk and McCoy to Rura Penthe.
He returned in 1999 as Qatai, an obsessed hunter of a vast space-dwelling creature, in the Voyager episode Bliss, and made a final appearance as a Vulcan elder in the 2009 Star Trek film. He died in 2019.