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Jeff Kober (born 18 December 1953; age 70) is the actor who played Iko in the Star Trek: Voyager seventh season episode "Repentance" and Traeg in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Shadows of P'Jem".

He is best known for his role as Sergeant Evan "Dodger" Winslow on China Beach, in which he co-starred with future Voyager star Robert Picardo and fellow Voyager guest stars Concetta Tomei and Megan Gallagher from 1988 through 1991.

The year before China Beach debuted, Kober had a supporting role in the made-for-television movie Laguna Heat. Co-starring in this film were Catherine Hicks and Peter Brocco. In 1988, besides starring in China Beach, Kober had major roles in Viper, Lucky Stiff (1988, co-starring W. Morgan Sheppard, Leigh J. McCloskey, Bill Quinn, and Larry Cedar), and Alien Nation (1988, featuring Brian Thompson, Frank Collison, Tom Morga, Leslie Bevis, Roger Aaron Brown, Earl Boen, and Keone Young).

Kober has had steady work on television since China Beach came to an end, having made several guest appearances on series such as The X-Files, Walker, Texas Ranger and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (working with Dominic Keating and Harris Yulin in the last), and starring in the short-lived TV series Higher Education and Kindred: The Embraced. He has also appeared in several films, including Tank Girl (1995) with Reg E. Cathey, Ann Cusack, Charles Lucia, Malcolm McDowell, Lori Petty, and Iggy Pop, Enough (2002, with William O. Campbell, Bill Cobbs, Bruce French, and Sandra Nelson), and A Man Apart (2003, with Thomas Kopache, Marco Rodriguez, Jim Boeke, Geno Silva, Ben Bray, Michael Papajohn, Dean Rubin, Azalea Davila and Charlie Curtis. He most recently made an appearance in Hidalgo, also featuring Malcolm McDowell. Kober later appeared in the multi-award winning 2006 independent short film Lucid and was more recently seen in The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007, co-starring Michael Bailey Smith).

He also recently had a small but important guest role on 24 playing the assassin who kills former President David Palmer. His "Shadows of P'Jem" co-star Gregory Itzin was a regular on that show at the time, as were Jude Ciccolella and Roger Cross. Kober later appeared in the "Folsom Prison Blues" episode of the series Supernatural as the inmate Randall. Kober was next seen in a film called Multiple, in 2007.

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