The only unforced error was the theme song, which was a reworked soft rock song. Starfleet was a human-only organization, and far from the 'perfect future' Roddenberry envisioned. One of those was adapting serial elements. On the other, it did a lot of new things with the storytelling in the franchise. It was a crew on a ship meeting weird aliens and killing or hooking up with them.

Also, when Gene Roddenberry fired up the warp engines again, TV 'franchises' didn't really exist. That's more than 600 episodes of television. Filmography YearĢ000 | The X-Files | Ernie Stefaniuk | S8.From the beginning of The Next Generation in 1987 there was at least one Star Trek series on TV for the next 17 years, sometimes two. Death ĭynarski died on February 27, 2020, in Studio City, California, at the age of 86. Over 2 + 1⁄ 2 years they converted a bare four-walled space into a 99-seat theater. As pivotal character Ernie Stefaniuk, his performance was heartrending and unforgettable.ĭynarski and David Weitz, a friend, built the Gene Dynarski Theater, which opened June 20, 1979, in Los Angeles. His final role (released posthumously) was in the X-Files episode 'Patience'. on Seinfeld and as Helmut Jitters in the short film Apple Jack. His many other TV credits include episodes of Batman (episodes 47 and 48), Starsky & Hutch, CHiPs, Little House on the Prairie and The A-Team.ĭynarski is also known for his two appearances as Izzy Mandelbaum Jr. In Monkees TV series, Dynarski played the Dragonman's sidekick, Toto, in the episode titled 'Monkee Chow Mein' (original US air date: March 13, 1967). He was one of 32 actors or actresses to have guest-starred in both the original Star Trek television series (episodes ' Mudd's Women' and ' The Mark of Gideon') and in one of the series' spin offs ( Star Trek: The Next Generation 's ' 11001001'). In the 1974 film Earthquake, Dynarski portrays Fred, a worker at the Mulholland Dam who becomes the first fatality of the disaster.ĭynarski also appeared in numerous television shows. In Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Dynarski plays a major supporting role as Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, appearing throughout much of the game's Soviet campaign and, to a lesser extent, the Allied campaign. In 1971's Duel, Dynarski had a small role as a truck driver in a cafe that was mistakenly identified by car driver David Mann (Dennis Weaver) as his tormenting truck driver that resulted in a short-lived fight at Chuck's Cafe. Three of the most popular projects that he has been involved with were two Steven Spielberg films, Duel and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Westwood Studios computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert.ĭynarski acted on stage before he began working in films and on television. Eugene Dynarski (Septem– February 27, 2020) was an American actor.

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