Louis Ortiz

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Ortiz on the set of Enterprise

Ortiz (right) with fellow actors Ivy Borg and Patrick Barnitt

Louis Ortiz (born 2 March 1962; age 62) is an actor who appeared throughout the run of Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Enterprise in many different background roles. For eleven years Ortiz worked as background performer and stand-in but received no credit for his appearances. According to John Billingsley, on set Ortiz was teaching actors how to move like an alien and behave like a specific species. ("Regeneration" audio commentary, ENT Season 2 Blu-ray)

Ortiz was featured in background material of the specials "O Captain! My Captain! A Profile of Scott Bakula" and "Cast Impressions: Season One" of the ENT Season 1 DVD. Several costumes worn by Ortiz were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including the costumes from the episodes "Distant Origin" [2], "Bounty" [3], "Vox Sola" [4], "The Shipment" [5], "Stigma" [6], "The Xindi" [7], "Flashback" [8], "Resistance" [9] [10] which was later worn by Holmes Osborne in "Canamar", "Awakening" and "Kir'Shara" [11], "Blood Fever" [12], his Culhane uniform [13], a Starfleet undershirt [14], Klingon uniforms [15] [16], a Xindi-Reptilian costume [17], an alien Enterprise costume [18], and a Suliban costume. [19]

Ortiz has also performed in the films Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1991, with Rick Gianasi), Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991, stunt coordinated by Phil O'Dell), The Mask (1994, with Reg E. Cathey, Christopher Darga, Kevin Grevioux, Scott McElroy, Robert O'Reilly, Jeremy Roberts, and stunts by Joni Avery, Tony Brubaker, John Cade, Chris Durand, Andy Epper, Gary Epper, Lane Leavitt, Eddie Matthews, Peewee Piemonte, Rick Sawaya, and Melodee Spevack), Beyond Desire (1996, with William Bastiani), Fight Club (1999, with Zach Grenier, David Andrews, Eugenie Bondurant, Tim de Zarn, David Lee Smith, Matt Winston, Baron Jay, and stunts by Jeff Imada, Jimmy Nickerson, Lane Leavitt, and Denney Pierce), and Mirror, Mirror IV: Reflection (2000).

He portrayed Jorge in the ER episode "Luck of the Draw" (1995, with Sam Anderson and Marco Rodriguez) and the mouthless man in the Sliders episode "California Reich" (1998, with Jeremy Roberts). A pictorial of him was shown in the US Playboy (November 1991, Vol. 38, Issue 11) and he served as a craft service man for the film Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991).

Star Trek appearances

Ensign Culhane
Star Trek: Voyager
Recurring character
(uncredited)

Yridian bar patron
VOY: "Non Sequitur"
(uncredited)

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Alien Excelsior crewman
VOY: "Flashback"
(uncredited)

Vulcan officer
Star Trek: First Contact
(uncredited)

Sakari
VOY: "Blood Fever"
(uncredited)

Bar alien
VOY: "Darkling"
(uncredited)

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Voth guard
VOY: "Distant Origin"
(uncredited)

Borg drone
VOY: "Dark Frontier"
(uncredited)

Borg drone
VOY: "Dark Frontier"
(uncredited)

Conference guest
DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
(uncredited)

Borg drone
VOY: "Unimatrix Zero", "Unimatrix Zero, Part II"
(uncredited)

Holographic Vulcan
VOY: "Flesh and Blood"
(uncredited)

Benkaran prisoner
VOY: "Repentance"
(uncredited)

Klingon crewman
VOY: "Prophecy"
(uncredited)

Borg drone
VOY: "Q2"
(uncredited)

Suliban medic
ENT: "Cold Front"
(uncredited)

Kreetassan aide
ENT: "Vox Sola"
(uncredited)

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Enolian prisoner
ENT: "Canamar"
(uncredited)

Borg drone
ENT: "Regeneration"
(uncredited)

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Klingon warrior
ENT: "Bounty"

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Xanthan market alien
ENT: "Rajiin"
[1]
(uncredited)

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Bar patron
ENT: "Home"
(uncredited)

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Vulcan High Command member
ENT: "Awakening", "Kir'Shara"
(uncredited)

Vulcan officer (mirror universe)
ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly"
(uncredited archive footage)

Further appearances

• Star Trek: First Contact as a Borg drone
• DS9: at least one episode as a Cardassian
• VOY:
  • "Resistance" as a Mokra guard
  • at least one episode as a Kradin
• ENT:
  • "Stigma" as a Vulcan medical technician
  • "The Xindi" as a Xindi-Reptilian ambassador
  • "The Shipment" as a Xindi Sloth
  • At least one episode as a Xindi-Reptilian warrior

Recurring appearance

(This list is currently incomplete.)

• VOY: as Ensign Culhane
  • "Phage"
  • "The Cloud"
  • "Eye of the Needle"
  • "Ex Post Facto"
  • "Prime Factors"
  • "Cathexis"
  • "Learning Curve"
  • "The 37's"
  • "Initiations"
  • "Elogium"
  • "Twisted"
  • "Parturition"
  • "Persistence of Vision"
  • "Tattoo"
  • "Prototype"
  • "Alliances"
  • "Threshold"
  • "Meld"
  • "Death Wish"
  • "Investigations"
  • "Innocence"
  • "The Thaw"
  • "Tuvix"
  • "Basics, Part I"
  • "Basics, Part II"
  • "Flashback"
  • "The Chute"
  • "Future's End, Part II"
  • "Warlord"
  • "Macrocosm"
  • "Darkling"
  • "Favorite Son"
  • "Displaced"
  • "Worst Case Scenario"
  • "Scorpion"
  • "Revulsion"
  • "Thirty Days"
  • "One Small Step"
  • "Good Shepherd"
  • "Flesh and Blood"
  • "Friendship One"
  • "Homestead"
  • "Endgame"

Stand-in work

(This list is currently incomplete.)

• VOY:
  • "Endgame" - stand-in for Richard Herd
• ENT:
  • "Two Days and Two Nights" - stand-in for Joseph Will, Rudolf Martin, John Billingsley, and Scott Bakula

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