SPANNING THE GENERATIONS GAP

Alan Ruck talks about playing Captain Harriman.

KURT ANTHONY KRUG

Alan Ruck never thought of himself as the William Shatner type who would be a captain of a starship, much less the U.S.S. Enterprise -the flagship of Starfleet. So Ruck, 68 – who won two Screens Actors Guild Awards for his role as Connor Roy on HBO's Succession, and is best known as Cameron Frye from 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off – was more than a little perplexed when he received the script for 1994's Star Trek Generations and read for the role of Captain John Harriman. “When Star Trek came along, I was just another journeyman actor looking for that next job. That was in the days when we still had fax machines. My manager called me about an audition for Generations. The scenes were faxed over,” recalls Los…

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