Debbie David

Template:Realworld Carl David Burks (born 3 March 1955; age 69), also known as Carl David and Carl Banks, is an actor who appeared as a regular background performer on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. He also appeared in Star Trek Generations and the 1996 video game Star Trek: Klingon. In addition, he served as stand-in for Brent Spiner on The Next Generation and for Robert Duncan McNeill on the second season of Voyager. As a background performer he received no on-screen credit for any of his appearances. [1]

Burks has appeared in several films including the 1990 action thriller Catchfire, with Dean Stockwell and stunts by Janet Brady and Tommy J. Huff, and many television commercials for labels such as McDonald's (1980).

Together with his wife he took over the aaah!Capella theater in the Noho Arts district in North Hollywood, California in 1996. When his wife left him he ran it alone. The club became famous as the "Club Dragopolis", with a special fan community of transgendered and transsexual people and several famous guests who stepped onto the stage of the club, including Jack Nicholson, Steve Guttenberg, and B.B. King. Burks took the name Debbie David and served as emcee and hostess after he found his gender identity and changed into a female. After her gender change, David continued to appear in films such as I Was a Teenage Dragqueen as well as working as a director, writer, and talent scout.

Star Trek appearances

Ensign/Lieutenant Russell
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
Recurring character
(uncredited)

Enterprise-B crewman
Star Trek Generations
(uncredited)

Frank Darwin
VOY: "Meld"
(uncredited)

Appearances as Russell

• TNG: as
  • "Yesterday's Enterprise" (Season 3)
  • "Allegiance"
  • "Tin Man"
  • "Transfigurations"
  • "The Best of Both Worlds"
  • "The Loss" (Season 4)
  • "Clues"
  • "Galaxy's Child"
  • "The Nth Degree"
  • "Qpid"
  • "The Drumhead"
  • "Half a Life"
  • "The Mind's Eye"
  • "Unification I" (Season 5)
  • "Violations"
  • "Ethics"
  • "The Outcast"
  • "The First Duty"
  • "Imaginary Friend"
  • "The Next Phase"
  • "Time's Arrow, Part II" (Season 6)
  • "Relics"
  • "Schisms"
  • "True Q"
  • "Rascals"
  • "A Fistful of Datas"
  • "Lessons"
  • "Second Chances"
  • "Descent"
  • "Descent, Part II" (Season 7)
  • "Liaisons"
  • "Phantasms"
  • "Force of Nature"
  • "Parallels"
  • "The Pegasus"
  • "Homeward"
  • "Lower Decks"
  • "Masks"
  • "Eye of the Beholder"
  • "Genesis"
  • "Firstborn"
  • "Bloodlines"
  • "Emergence"
  • "Preemptive Strike"
• VOY:
  • "Meld" (Season 2)
  • "Future's End, Part II" (Season 3)
  • "Macrocosm"

External links

• Dragopolis.com - official site
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