‘Star Trek’ icon Michael Forest dead at 97
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Key Points:
- Actor Michael Forest, known for his role as Apollo in the original 1967 “Star Trek” episode “Who Mourns for Adonais?,” has died at the age of 97.
- Forest passed away on Wednesday, with his friend James A. Brown announcing the news on Facebook from MorningStar Senior Living in Sparks, Nevada.
- Over his career, Forest amassed more than 200 credits, including appearances on “Zorro,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Gilligan’s Island,” and the film “Cast Away.”
- He reprised his iconic “Star Trek” role in the 2013 fan web series “Star Trek Continues” and appeared in Snoop Dogg’s 2020 sci-fi parody “Unbelievable!!!!!.”
- Forest shared in a 2012 interview that the Apollo role gave him his “15 minutes of fame,” although he considered much of his other work equally or more significant.
