Connor Trinneer engineers sci-fi success after Star Trek
By Mike Poteet
Trinneer versus big bad bugs and a dire drought
In the years since Enterprise, Connor Trinneer has had roles in several genre films.
In 2009, he co-starred with Heroes’ James Kyson Lee (who lobbied, briefly and in vain, to play Sulu in director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot) in Star Runners, an original TV movie for what was then still called The Sci-Fi Channel.
As Tycho “Ty” Johns—yet another of his nicknamed characters—Trinneer played half of an interstellar smuggling duo whose “cargo” is an enigmatic woman named Asta (Toni Trucks, later of NCIS: New Orleans and SEAL Team). When terrorists attack the smugglers’ ship, their mission morphs into a fight for survival against giant bugs.
For those of you playing along at home, Star Runners makes Trinneer the third Enterprise alum who’s had to face off against big bad bugs, following Linda Park in Infestation and Jolene Blalock in Starship Troopers 3.
In 2018, Trinneer took another trek to outer space in the short science fiction film Ceres (not to be confused with the short documentary film of the same name, from the same year, about farming). IMDB offers this plot summary:
"In the midst of a drought at the edges of colonized space, a well-used cop and a smart crook with a smarter mouth find themselves in an uneasy alliance when they uncover a conspiracy of corruption and murder surrounding the one resource worth killing for: water."
It sounds intriguing, but sadly, Ceres doesn’t seem available for easy viewing.