German-born British actor, familiar as General Gogol in the James Bond films, who played terraforming director Kurt Mandl in the first-season Next Generation episode Home Soil.
Walter Gotell (1924 to 1997) was a German-born actor who worked for decades in British film and television. He is best remembered as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in a run of James Bond films from The Spy Who Loved Me to The Living Daylights, having earlier played a villain in From Russia with Love.
In Star Trek he appeared in the first-season Next Generation episode Home Soil as Kurt Mandl, the abrupt director of the terraforming station on Velara III.
Mandl's evasiveness draws suspicion when one of his team is killed by a laser drill, and the investigation leads to the discovery of an inorganic crystalline life form that the project has been destroying.