And here's our first contestant: Tommy Lee Jones.

Tommy Lee Jones was in "Men In Black" with Will Smith...
who was in "Wild Wild West" with Kevin Kline...
who was in "Life as a House" with Scott Bakula.

Next...Omar Sharif.

Does it have to be actors only?

Omar Sharif was in Lawrence of Arabia With Peter O'Toole...
who was in Caligula with Malcolm McDowell...
who was in Star Trek Generations with LeVar Burton, director of "Similitude" among others.

Rudolph Valentinowas in The Son of the Sheik with Montagu Love

Montagu Love was in Tennessee Johnson with Jeff Corey

Jeff Corey was in Color of Night with Scott Bakula

Now here's a challenge for all y'all IMDBers: Fred Ott.

Fred Ott was in Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze directed by
William K.L. Dickson who was the Cinematographer in King John which stared
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree who was in The Old Folks at Home with
W.E. Lawrence who was in It's a Wonderful World with
James Stewart who was in North and South II with
Jonathan Frakes who was in Star Trek: The Next Generation with LeVar Burton, director of "Similitude".

Now...Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman was in Harry Potter :Chamber of Secrets with Kenneth Branagh
who was in Othello with Laurence Fishburne
who was in Apocalypse Now with Martin Sheen
who was on The West Wing with guest star
John Billingsley.

Sean Astin?

Sean Astin was in The Lord of the Rings with Ian McKellen.
Ian McKellen was in X-Men with Patrick Stewart.
Patrick Stewart was in Star Trek: The Next Generation with LeVar Burton, director of "Similitude".

Cary Grant?

ETA: Sorry, Gilmel, I left out the last line.

Patrick Stewart hasn't been on Enterprise.

Cary Grant was in Charade with George Kennedy...

who was in The Naked Gun with Ricardo Montalban...

who was in Spy Kids 2 with Allan Cumming....

who was in X Men 2 with Patrick Stewart....

who was...

Oh, hell, I think it's time we put a moratorium on connections through LeVar Burton. He makes this too easy.

The Cuiusquemodi Trivial Award of the Week goes to SilverOwl. Only the truely trivial would be able to link Fred Ott. And Gilmel, Patrick Stewart has not been on Enterprise, but he was on TNG with... LeVar Burton. I agree with the Burton moratorium, but I would further suggest that we use the Internet Movie Database as our final authority on who was in what with whom and that a limit is set of what constitutes association (so that the best boy, say, doesn't count as a full fledged link). I'm not going to suggest what the limit should be, just that there ought to be one.

Harrison Fjord, you forgot to suggest somebody new.

Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall was in The Sum of All Fears with James Cromwell who was in Star Trek: Generations with LeVar Burton who directed...

Or, to eliminate LeVar: PBH was in The Sum of All Fears with Morgan Freeman who was in Unforgiven with Richard Harris who was in The Wild Geese with Richard Burton who was in Hamlet with John Cullum who was on Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula.

There are quite a few folks who go through that Hamlet link...

Edited to add: I nominate Topsy the Circus Elephant although it took me 6 people between Topsy and an Enterprise cast member - so is that 6 or 7 degrees of separation?

Is that a complement? Because if it is, Thank you.

Topsy was in “Electrocuting an Elephant” (1903), which was produced, directed, etc. by Thomas Edison...
who co-produced “Butterfly Dance” (1897)*, which featured cinematography by William K.L. Dickson...
who was the Cinematographer in "King John" (1899) which starred Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree...
who was in "The Old Folks at Home" (1916) with W.E. Lawrence...
who was in "It's a Wonderful World" with James Stewart...
who was in "North and South II" with Jonathan Frakes...
who was in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" with LeVar Burton...
who directed "Similitude".

Right, then...let's go "Back to the Future" with Michael J. Fox.

*Uncredited.

Michael J. Fox did a voice in Atlantis the Lost Empire with...
David Ogden Stiers who appeared in Jungle 2 Jungle with...
Dominic Keating

brossa, could we get your solution for Topsy? I'd like to know if there's another, non-LeVar solution.

Next up: Virginia O'Brien... and NO Next Generation connections!!!!

Hee, HF, that's a good one. I wondered if anyone would avoid the obvious Christopher Loyd route.

Virginia O'Brien was in “Til the Clouds Roll By” with Frank Sinatra...
who was in “Cannonball Run II” with Jamie Farr...
who was in “M*A*S*H” with David Ogden Stiers...
who was in "Jungle 2 Jungle" with Dominic Keating.

Virginia O'Brien was in Gus with Ed Asner

who was in Above Suspicion with Scott Bakula

Here's an easy one...Liev Schrieber.

Liev Schrieber was in "Since You've Been Gone" with Teri Hatcher...
who was in "Quantum Leap" with Bakula.

And now my crush, Ioan Gruffud

Ioan Gruffud was in "Titanic" with Bill Paxton
who was in "Spy Kids 2" with Alexa Vega
who was in "Netforce" with Bakula

Joan Crawford, anyone?

Dammit! I forgot "Titanic" and though I was making it a bit diffy!

Ioan Gruffudd was in Black Hawk Down with Ron Eldard who was in Deep Impact with Morgan Freeman who was in Unforgiven with Richard Harris who was in The Wild Geese with Richard Burton who was in Hamlet with John Cullum who was on Quantum Leap with Bakula.

My Topsy trail was: Topsy was filmed by Edison who filmed J Stuart Blackton sketching the President. Blackton directed The Passionate Quest featuring May McAvoy who was in Wings of Eagles with John Wayne who was in The Longest Day with Richard Burton, etc.

I should stop using that Hamlet link...
ETA: whoops - took me too long to type!

Joan Crawford was in Strait-Jacket with George Kennedy, who co-starred with Quantum in Cat's Don't Dance

How about Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre was in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with Michael Ansara who was in Reading Rainbow and TNG with Levar Burton (can we still use him?).

ETA: forget it. I just saw the "no TNG connections". So mine works, but it's not by the rules.

I think it's okay to have TNG connections but it just gets so much easier when we start using TNG/VOY actors who have directed Enterprise eps. Maybe we should say no directors?

I can get Peter Lorre without using directors, but it takes longer and uses the same show twice:

Peter Lorre was in "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Cary Grant
who was in "His Girl Friday" with Rosalind Russell
who was in "The Women" with Mildred Shay
who was on "Inspector Morse" with John Thaw
who was on "Inspector Morse" with Dominic Keating

ETA:There is one degree of separation between Terence Stamp and Enterprise

Okay, yes to normal directors, and no to TNG/VOY actors if the way to get to ENT is through their directing. Is that properly complicated?

There've been a number of actors on both TNG etc. and ENT, right?

Yep.

The most noticeable due to frequency - probably Jeff Combs (Colonel McCain) and Vaughn Armstrong (the Eeevil Admiral Forrest).

Others: Rene Auberjonois, F.J. Rio, Daniel Dae Kim (MACO), J.G. Hertzler, Dey Young (slept with Odo, drugged Quantum), Ethan Phillips, Clint Howard (the other two Ferengi in Acquisition), Tucker Smallwood (Mr. Council Man).

I'm sure there's more, but for this game, that ought to be plenty.

I had Peter Lorre was in Comedy of Terrors with Vincent Price who was in Convicts 4 with Rod Steiger who was in The Hollywood Sign with Dominic Keating, if you were curious.

Michael J. Fox was in The Frighteners with Jeffrey Combs, who's Shran on Enterprise.

Colin Firth?

Colin Firth was in "Shakepeare in Love" with Gwyneth Paltrow
who was in "Royal Tenenbaums" with Gene Hackman
who was in "Superman II" with Terence Stamp
who was in "The Sicilian" with Andreas Katsulas
who spent some quality time in a sh'pod with Quantum

Kurt Russell?

Kurt Russell was in "Interstate 60" with Chris Cooper who was in "American Beauty" with Scott Bakula.

Gilda Radner?

Gilda Radner was in The Woman in Red with Gene Wilder.
Gene Wilder was in Young Frankenstein with Peter Boyle.
Peter Boyle was on The X-Files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" with Gillian Anderson.
Gillian Anderson was in Playing By Heart with Kellie Waymire who appeared in "Strange New World," among other Enterprise episodes.

Richard Roundtree?

Richard Roundtree was in Soul Food: The Series with Debbi Morgan.
Debbi Morgan was in Eve's Bayou with Samuel L. Jackson.
Samuel L. Jackson was in Jackie Brown with Tiny Lister
Tiny Lister was "Klaang" in Broken Bow.

Dang! Oh yeah: Colin Farrell

skye1974, you forgot to suggest somebody new.

Colin Farrell was in "Phone Booth" with Julio Oscar Mechoso
Julio Oscar Mechoso was in "Jurassic Park III" with Linda Park

Jack Nicholson?

Colin Farrell was in "Daredevil" with Jennifer Garner -
who was on "Alias" with Gina Torres...
who was on "Angel" with David Boreanaz...
who starred with John Billingsley, also on "Angel".

Wow, my first post! :D

As did you, grim squeaker. And welcome!

Jack Nicholson was in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest with
Brad Dourif, who was in Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers with
Elijah Wood, who was in The Ice Storm with
Alison Janney who shared a memorable geography-focused scene on The West Wing with John Billingsley

Stellan Skarsgard?

Stellan Skarsgard was in Deep Blue Sea with Thomas Jane.
Thomas Jane was in 61* with Connor Trinneer.

Forest Whittaker

I need a ruling on this: Can I use a TNG guest star to connect to another TNG guest star who's also been on Enterprise?

Ok, so Forest Whitaker was in Smoke with Ashley Judd
who was on TNG as was Vaughn Armstrong

but never in the same episode, which is why it feels like cheating. Really I just wanted to name-drop Smoke because it's such an awesome movie.

1. Forest Whittaker was in Phone Booth with Colin Farrell.
2. Colin Farrell was in Daredevil with Jennifer Garner.
3. Jennifer Garner was in Dude, Where's My Car? with Ashton Kutcher.
4. Ashton Kutcher was in Cheaper By The Dozen with Tom Welling.
5. Tom Welling is on Smallville, where Corin Nemic was a guest star.
6. Corin Nemic was on Stargate SG1, where Jolene Blalock and John Billingsley were both a guest stars.


Jet Li?

I think you can use a TNG actor as long as they haven't directed an episode of ENT and you're using that connection. If that makes sense....

Yes, and what skye said.

Jet Li was in "Lethal Weapon 4" with Danny Glover,
who was in "The Color Purple" with Whoopie Goldberg,
who starred in "The Player" with Dean Stockwell,
who guest starred on "Enterprise".




Thanks, cuiusquemodi! And before I forget again: Naomi Watts?

Naomi Watts was in The Ring with Shannon Cochran
who played Sirella, Martok's wife, on Deep Space Nine ("You Are Cordially Invited").
Martok was played by J.G. Hertzler, who got Quantum a reduced sentence in "Judgment"

Ted Raimi

Ted Raimi was on Xena with Jacqueline Kim
who was in ST: Generations with Thomas Kopache
who was, most recently, the Pseuliban.

John Cusack?

John Cusack was in Adaptation with Jim Beaver
Jim Beaver played Admiral Daniel Leonard in Broken Bow (aka the Pilot)

I'm surprised no one has set down Mr. Kevin Bacon as a challenge yet.

Edited and then unedited after cuiusquemodi thought it possible that Gytha Ogg had laid down the challenge of Joan Cusack.

Kevin Bacon was in "A Few Good Men" with John M. Jackson
Who was in JAG with Steven Culp.
Who now leads the MACOs in "Enterprise"


Edited because I forgot to put the new actor up...

David Caruso.