Let me tell you about a man. A man who both had a lot to do with Liquor, and a little to do with 3 separate generations of Star Trek. Interested yet? Anyone still reading? You’d better be, this is the most amazing adventure you’re ever going to take in two paragraphs. Let me then bring you down by saying the man we’re about to talk about just passed away. He is dead, but his legacy is infinite. He was a voice actor and person actor by the name of Michael Pataki. The picture you see above is a tribute to him as illustrated by the creator of Ren and Stimpy, John K. Michael Pataki, a friend and colleague of K, did the voice for one of the most awesome John K characters ever created: George Liquor. George Liquor played the little known part of owner and master of Ren and Stimpy.

Of course you need to see him in action, so here’s a quick clip!

Then of course there’s the strange and wild journey of a born-again Klingon! Michael Pataki as an actor played a Klingon in the original Star Trek series episode The Trouble with Tribbles (1967!) He then played a completely different Klingon in an episode or Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988), and a re-mix of that same original series Tribbles episode, this time on Deep Space Nine (Trials and Tribble-ations, 1996.) Three series, three decades! He’s everybody’s favorite dimension-traveling Klingon!

And he did a whole crapload of other stuff like Family Guy and B.J. and the Bear. Check him out on imdb, and watch the motorcycle movie Easy Rider in his honor – see if you can find him, he plays Mime #4. No joke.

He lived to be 300 years old.

Also check out the RIP entry made by John K, it is very heartfelt and nice.

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