Mark Margolis

I was watching an episode of Star Trek, The Next Generation very loosely based on the film, Rashomon. The episode was called A Matter of Perspective about the explosion that occurs on a space station where a lead scientist, played by Mark Margolis dies. The whole episode involves a trial, held in the holodeck, where each person's testimony is shown via the holodeck.

It wasn't the greatest episode, and certainly didn't even come close to comparing with Rashomon.

Later on, I was watching The Directors, a series on Reelz Channel and it was on Darren Aronofsky. Aronofsky's breakthrough was his first major film, Pi.

Now, Pi was made nearly 8 years after this episode of Star Trek. Who plays the professor of Pi? Mark Margolis.

Guess it's one of those coincidences where you watch one show, then another, and you recognize someone (in the Star Trek episode, Margolis is heavily made-up, so he was hard to recognize, but his voice is so distinctive that it wasn't hard to tell it was him.