Eric Menyuk

Eric Menyuk is an American attorney and former actor who is best known for playing the Traveler in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He was born in Brookline in 1959. Before the series began, he was one of several performers in contention to play the android Data, a part that went to Brent Spiner. He was then given the Traveler, appearing first in the opening season and later in the fourth and seventh seasons. The makeup took three hours on every shooting day, with prosthetics on his face and both hands to cut the number of visible fingers, and he has said he disliked the hand pieces. He has since appeared at Star Trek fan conventions and themed cruises, and in 2024 he returned to the character with a voice cameo on Star Trek: Prodigy. He later trained as a lawyer.