***TREK TRVIA***

Picard often plays two characters when he also plays Locutus of Borg.
If he plays Sherlock Holmes or something on the holodeck he'd have played three characters.


I'm a bit obsessed but there's load of examples of actors playing two characters.
Picard also playing Locutus.
Riker also playing his brother Riker.
Data playing Lore, and Soong, and Sherlock Holmes.
Marina Sertis playing Troi and the Goddess of Empathy.


The episode with the masks on Next Generation. Picard plays the sun and Data plays the moon I think it is. There's a possibility that one of them plays a third character in that episode.


Photos shown and referred to on screen. This has happened, where Picard or Riker points to a photo of their grandfather or other relative, and that photo is actually of the actor, but the actor is playing a new character, as his own relative. That might have happened in the episode with two Rikers, which would give three characters for Jon Frakes. (is that the right name?)


Spock may have appeared in the same episode as young spock and as old spock. Does that count as two characters?


Q appears as a judge when humanity is on trial but I suspect he's playing the same Q as normal.

I suppose holodeck people, like Data playing Sherlock, aren't as real as characters outside the holodeck. But they are distinct characters in some ways. There have been several cases of holodeck characters playing important roles in the plots.


Brent Spiner (Data) plays at least four characters off the holodeck, and several more characters on the holodeck. Not all in the same episode of course. I dpn't think he can be beaten for sheer number of characters.
Does he play more than 4 characters off the holodeck?
How many characters like Sherlock does he play on the holodeck?

4 off holodeck characters for Brent Spiner.


Picard also plays three versions of himself in an episode, where he plays young, middle aged and old Picard. Q's in the episode. That's the same character at three different times of his life.