Newsarama just posted an interview with actor Phil Morris, who has been in almost every incarnation of Star Trek.

First he was the wily 8 year-old wearing an army helmet in the TOS episode 'Miri'.  Next he played Trainee Foster in Star Trek III.  He then went on to play two roles in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  And, lastly he played astronaut Lieutenant John Kelly in Star Trek: Voyager.

The son of actor Greg Morris (who forever be Barney Collier on Mission: Impossible), Phil caught the acting bug early and made the most of it. For instance, he not only was in Star Trek:TOS, but also in the movie Search For Spock and the Trek TV sequels, Deep Space 9 and Voyager. He scored a recurring role in Seinfeld as Kramer's opportunistic lawyer Jackie Chiles. He even played the son of Barney Collier in an update of M:I. And of course he has another recurring role as Martian Manhunter on Smallville.

NEWSARAMA: Now it’s an honor and a pleasure sir. I mean any dude who can go back and say he was in the original Star Trek and a number of other incarnations afterwards...

PHIL MORRIS: I’m telling you, I don’t think anyone will be able to do that again.

NRAMA: Let’s start simple enough. When you were giving William Shatner all kinds of trouble in that episode of Star Trek, were you yet deep into comic books and cartoons?

PM:: I don’t want to say of course, but yeah!, I was like eight years old, the golden age. I remember my very first comic book was Tales of Suspense, a double issue featuring Iron Man and Captain America. I got it in Cleveland, Ohio. My dad was from Cleveland and we went back to see the folks. My grandma bought it for me at a drug store. That’s how tied into it I am. I remember when I got my first comic book. I remember looking at the comics and saying ‘Grandma, can I have one of those?’ and she saying ‘Yes, but just one.’

Now I didn’t have a clue about them. I just picked out the most colorful one. When I opened those pages, they just transformed me. I became one of those kids who used to get those flower seed packets, sell them and use the money to buy comics.

I’m a major martial arts student, too. I remember I literally stopped going to class one time because it was interfering with my Saturday morning cartoons. (source Newsarama)

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