Connor Trinneer engineers sci-fi success after Star Trek

Connor Trinneer reunites with colleagues from the final frontier

Like some 39 of his fellow Star Trek alumni, Trinneer appears in Snoop Dogg’s live-action-and-marionette sci-fi parody Unbelievable!!!. He plays Captain Jack Youngblood (not to be confused with the NFL Hall of Famer).

But you’d have to reduce me two steps in rank if I closed a review of what Connor Trinneer has done since Enterprise without mentioning one last project. It isn’t science fiction but does boast a beauty of a Star Trek connection.

In director Ahmet Tan’s 2019 short film Ben, Frankly, Trinneer plays Harrison, a college professor who’s an aspiring screenwriter. He struggles to interest Caesar, a crass, commercial Hollywood producer—played with fun, foul-mouthed bravado by Star Trek: Voyager’s own Robert Picardo—in his historically-accurate biopic about Benjamin Franklin.

Unfortunately, Caesar’s convinced “there’s no such thing as an educational movie.”

You can watch the full, eight-minute short at the top of this slide.

Harrison has to humor Caesar by agreeing Star Trek is “old hat,” but we hope to see Connor Trinneer in many more genre projects—including, maybe, a return to the “mega-franchise” itself!