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Googy Gress (born 11 August 1958; age 65) is an actor who played The Overlooker in the Star Trek: Voyager sixth season episode "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy".

He was also a regular on G vs. E, along with Clayton Rohner. The series lasted one season, from 1999 through 2000; among the writers for this show was Ronald D. Moore. Among the Star Trek performers who made guest appearances on this series were Nichelle Nichols, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley and Dominic Keating.

Prior to this, Gress was a voice actor on the animated series Freakazoid!, along with Ricardo Montalban, David Warner, and Frank Welker.

He also has a number of films to his credit. In 1989, he appeared in Bloodhounds of Broadway with Voyager star Ethan Phillips and Trek guest actors Stephen McHattie, David Youse, Alan Ruck, Herschel Sparber, and George Ede. In 1995, he appeared in Apollo 13, along with another Hierarchy alien actor, Andy Milder. Other Star Trek performers who appeared in this film include Clint Howard, Brian Markinson, Brett Cullen. Joseph Culp, David Andrews, Ned Vaughn, Geoffrey Blake, John Short, Steve Rankin, John Wheeler, Bruce Wright, and Max Grodénchik.

Gress and Andy Milder appeared on-screen together again in Armageddon (1998, with J. Patrick McCormack, Peter White, Matt Malloy, Brian Brophy, James Harper, Jim Fitzpatrick, Lawrence Tierney, Charles J. Stewart and Jeff Austin).

In 2002, Gress along with Larry Cedar did voice work for a 2 part episode of the cartoon The Zeta Project along with Diedrich Bader (who voiced the title character Zeta) and Kurtwood Smith.

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Additional projects in which Gress appeared with other Star Trek performers include:

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