Ethan Phillips

Ethan Phillips has made scores of guest appearances on television series and tele films, including Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone, Criminal Minds, NUMB3RS, Las Vegas, L.A. Law, JAG, Law & Order, Arrested Development, Boston Legal, Castle, Rizzoli & Isles, 'The Good Guys, and The Mentalist.

In 1990 he began his prolific Star Trek career playing the Ferengi character of Dr. Farek in the "Ménage à Troi" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Phillips went on to play Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager from 1995. Phillips stayed with the series through its entire seven-season run; he also cameoed as a holographic nightclub maître d' in 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact, and appeared as a Ferengi pirate captain on an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. He reprised his role as Neelix alongside fellow Star Trek: Voyager actors Tim Russ, Robert Picardo, Garrett Wang and Jeri Ryan in Star Trek Online's 2014 expansion Delta Rising.

Phillips co-authored the Star Trek Cookbook with William J Birnes, and performed in the Star Trek Internet fan film Of Gods and Men.

Phillips has also done voice work for several of the Star Wars franchise video games: 2000's Star Wars: Force Commander, 2001's Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, and 2003's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.