-: Welcome to StarTrek.com.
-: What I want.
-: Today, we're counting down every character
played by Jeffrey Combs.
-: I agree.
-: Jeffrey Combs is one of the only actors
to play a variety of characters on the 'Trek' franchise.
-: What's important is how.
-: From Weyoun, to a holosuite guest,
here's how they all stack up.
Number nine, a holosuite guest.
(crowd softly chatting) (piano chord)
Among the many other guests
at Vic Fontaine's club, -: Ladies and gentlemen,
-: is the conspicuously-placed Combs looking snazzy
in a 1960s suit and tie.
Is he a hologram?
Is he another startfleet officer
who felt like dressing up that night?
He doesn't speak and remains in the background.
-: Nothing lasts forever.
-: So we'll never know for sure, let the fanfiction begin.
-: This one's from the heart.
-: Number eight, Suldok.
-: You must be Commander Suldok.
-: We are the Order of the Empty Crown.
-: In Star Trek: Elite Force Two,
Combs assumed the role of the main villain, Suldok.
A Romulan Commander responsible for planning a military coup
against the Romulan Star Empire,
using an ancient race of genetically engineered bugs.
-: We'll make key Romulan senators so afraid
of a federation first strike,
that they'll give the Empty Crown
an endless supply of Exomorphs.
-: Number seven, Penk.
In the season six 'Voyager' episode, Tsunkatse,
-: Welcome to Tsunkatse.
-: Penk kidnaps Seven of Nine
and forces her to compete in a popular blood sport.
-: You should have superior strength,
agility, stamina.
-: What makes it even easier to forget that Combs
or anyone else, appear in the episode,
is that it also features Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
at the height
of his WWE career. (crowd cheering)
-: Penk's insulted me by putting you in the pit to face me.
-: I must warn you, I possess superior strength.
(electronic buzzing)
-: I'm trembling.
(forced exhale) (slapping and thumping)
-: We're getting tens of thousands of requests
to see you fight again.
-: Number six, Tiron.
In the 'Deep Space Nine' episode, Meridian,
Tiron is a super-creep,
-: What I want is not in your catalog.
-: but it says a lot about Combs as a performer.
-: What it is--
-: Even when he's doing something so weird and off putting,
you can't help but to watch
just to see what's going to happen next.
-: Now what is it you want?
-: I want Major Kira.
-: It's his work in this episode
that would lead him to getting called back
again and again and again.
-: Don't tell me, I don't wanna know.
-: Can you do it?
-: Number five, Kevin Mulkahey.
Part of the fun of an episode like Far Beyond the Stars,
is along with it's still relevant social commentary
and stellar storytelling,
-: Nice suit.
Where'd you get it?
-: it's one of those classic 'Star Trek' scenarios
that allows the entire cast
to play completely different characters.
-: What are you doing around here?
-: I work here.
-: Awfully well-dressed for a janitor.
-: Mulkahey never appears again in the series,
but Sisko carries these events with him
all the way to his ascension to the Celestial temple.
(siren wailing)
-: Take your drawing, and get out of here.
-: Number four, Krem.
(electronic whooshing)
-: Shorltly after 'Deep Space Nine's' conclusion in 1999,
Combs was cast as a Ferengi
for the 'Enterprise' episode, Acquisition.
He played Krem, who along with his crew,
attempt to sabotage and steal the Enterprise.
In many ways, he could possibly be an ancestor
to 'Deep Space Nine's' future union leader, Rom.
(adventurous music) (electronic chirping)
-: You all right? Krem.
Number three, Brunt.
-: She's speaking to me again.
-: The Ferengi we most closely associated with Combs
is liquidator, Brunt.
Brunt first appears in the third season episode,
Family Business. -: What were you saying
about a lesson?
-: Ah, the lesson is, no one can outsmart the FCA.
-: And for a time, largely serves as an antagonist to Quark.
-: Your mother's confession will serve as a warning
to females all over the Alliance.
-: Number two, Weyoun.
Weyoun is Combs own pick for his favorite performance
in all of 'Trek'.
-: I have to admit, I find it somewhat disturbing.
-: He started off as merely the third unique character
the actor portrayed in season three of 'Deep Space Nine'.
-: Your people want you to come home, Odo.
-: Combs portrayed both Weyoun and Brunt
in the episode Dogs of War.
-: I'm sure there must be something I can do
to make you change your mind?
-: He became the first Trek actor to portray
two different, completely unrelated, reoccurring characters
in the same episode.
-: If you don't mind I'd like to inspect the wreckage.
(whoosh) (dramatic music)
-: Closing out our list at number one, Shran.
-: What the hell are you doing here?
-: Looking out for you Pink Skins.
-: After nearly a decade of playing various degrees
of villains on 'Star Trek',
it's with Shran that we get to see Combs in a new light,
as an honorable antihero with a serious chip
on his shoulder.
-: We've been monitoring
all Vulcan, (narrator drowns out clip)
-: He undergoes a lot of growth over four seasons,
and according to producer, Manny Coto,
had 'Enterprise' gone onto a fifth season,
he'd likely would have found himself
stationed on the Bridge.
-: They're preparing for a war against us.
-: How would you rate Jeffrey Combs' characters?
-: She's speaking to me again.
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