Trek Celebs On TV Tonight: Ryan Joins Leverage + Takei in Kimmel Sketch [VIDEO]

Tonight a couple of Trek vets will be gracing your TV screens. Star Trek Voyager’s 7 of 9 starts her recurring role on TNT’s Leverage, while George Takei, the original Sulu, will be appearing in a parody skit on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live we have details and images from both below.

 

 
Ryan on Leverage
Tonight Star Trek Voyager’s Jeri Ryan becomes the latest Star Trek vet (following Jonathan Frakes, Armin Shimmerman, Brent Spiner and Wil Wheaton) to show on on the TNT heist show Leverage. Jeri will appear in the season 2 finale "The Lost Heir Job" as Tara, a con artist.


Jeri on Leverage

Ryan’s role is not a one off, she is joining the show for a recurring role in Season 3. In an interview with iF Magazine the actress noted that her career (including with Star Trek) has often involved joining shows midway.

I’ve been the designated pitch-hitter for most of my career. I think SHARK is the first series I was on, that I was on from the beginning. I think every series I’ve ever done, I was added mid-way through. DARK SKIES, my first show, it only ran one season, I was added to the second half of the season. STAR TREK: VOYAGER I came in Season 4. BOSTON PUBLIC, I was added at the beginning of Season 2.

Here is a preview of tonight’s episode (but no Jeri).

Embedded video from TNT Video

Leverage airs tonight on TNT at 9PM.

Takei in Kimmel Sketch
Tonight George Takei reminds Bill Shatner that he too can do late night talk show sketches. Takei will appear in a skit on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in “Kate Is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story”, a fake biopic about the embattled couple from the TLC hit “Jon & Kate Plus 8.” Kathy Griffin will play Kate Gosselin and George plays Jon Gosselin.

Here is a preview photo where Kate catches Jon cheating.


Takei in tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live airs on ABC at midnight (actually 12:05 AM).

UPDATE: Video

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LOL, I am actually looking fwd to this one.

Seeing George with that cheerleader is proof of his greatness as an actor.

And is anyone else getting a serious Sarah Jessica Parker vibe from Kathy Griffin?

A season finale in September? This is a chronitomical anomaly! Jeri is really as versatile as she is beautiful and truly funny. She had a couple of guest appearances on Boston Legal and her scenes opposite the Shat were side splitting.

Who’s the blonde on his lap.

Why do the gays get all the girls?

I’m moderately irked by that.

Hey! Where’s this week’s weekly sci fi movie and tv update feature?

Jeri Ryan was always the highlight of Voyager, she’s still got it!

George Takei + Hot Cheerleader = EPIC WIN

Oh My!

Jeri Ryan actually looks much better now than she did in Voyager. She looked positively anorexic then! The George sketch should be fun.

Yeah, Jeri Ryan is still pretty dang hot.

Oh well there goes Leverage… maybe she won’t stay.
Can’t act her way out of a bag.

Can’t stand Jeri Ryan – they’re going to ruin the best show on television

Can’t stand Jeri Ryan – they’re going to ruin the best show on television.

Wrong name for your show, Jeri-should be “Cleavage”

Jeri Ryan – YOW – what a !!! She can asimilate me anytime!!

Did you know Jeri’s last name at birth was Zimmerman.

I use to be a body guard for a Melissa Zimmerman who was a dancer. Their figures are very similar. Missy but not as top heavy as Jeri but they have much the same body mannerisms. I liked Jeri since I first seen her de-borg-ified. Mainly because she would remind me of Missy.

As for that cheerleader in George’s lap, she is cute, seen her before in some other ad, do not recall what one, but something hints at a cell phone ad.

Wonder and hope Jeri has gotten the mess of her ex cleared up, you know the guy that was replaced by the Governor that picked O’buma’s replacement. It seems you can not be a of that state unless you’ve done things that give you free room and board in the vertical pin striped wallpaper hotels.

But Jeri has more than enough talent to get her about any job she desires.

Wonder if she’ll do and Trek shows or movies again.

Did meet her at a Trek Convention, I said Hi Miss Zimmerman, she gave me a big smile but we never talked, she was to busy fighting off all the paws trying to get her attention. I’d say claws but she seemed to like the adoration that she was proudly given.

Wonder what her Borg Nanobots look like, they seem to keep her pretty tuned up.

Many cable shows have their “seasons” in the summertime. “Monk,” “Psych,” “In Plain Sight,” “The Closer,” “Law & Order – CI” and “Leverage” all ran fresh episodes this summer.
I also wish I had seen that “Jimmy Kimmel” episode, even though George Takei is old enough to be Jon Gosselin’s dad. Maybe even his grandfather. But, I need my sleep, as I have to get up at 5 a.m. to go to work. Kathy Griffin is an acquired taste, but she’s tops at skewering pseudo-celebrities like Kate Gosselin (who’s 15 minutes of fame should have been long past.)

Just to be clear, last night’s episode of “Leverage” is not the season finale. It’s the MID-season finale. The remaining six episodes will begin to air in January.

LOVE JERI LYNN RYAN!

haters to the left.

Trek reference to Presidential politics: Jeri Ryan was getting a divorce from her husband Jack during his Senate run in Illinois. Senate candidate Obama’s campaign got the details about the divorce and made them public (I assume the divorce was a matter of public record so anyone could have looked). The embarrasing details caused Mr. Ryan to drop out of the race. Senator Obama was elected; gave a historic speech at the 2004 Democratic convention and you know the rest.

She’s like 40 now but she still has the best melons.

Looks like Gloria Steinham in that pic

AP, are you going to update this with a video?

Jerry Ryan is so Sexy! George… Not so much but looks like the skit will be great! I love seeing Treck stars doing other stuff.

Is George using Botox…or plastic surgery…?

He looks…odd…

Jeri Ryan looks bugeyed in that pic.

Oops! I forgot to say Jeri Ryan has nice titties….so that makes up for her bugeyed-ness.

Mwahahaha!!!

#19 Actually their divorce record was wide open, and always public.

It was the *custody* records of their son Alex, that at the recommendation of the guardian ad litem, the agreement of both Jeri and Jack, and the judge of the custody case in 1999 sealed them.

The newspaper Chicago Tribune sued to open the custody records in 2004, that’s what did it. It contained (unproven) accusations made during the custody case, that were later withdrawn. However, the accusations were salacious. Judge for yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ryan

The video clip of Takei and Griffin’s skit is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1gqLERzk_w

Stay classy, Internet.