StarTrek.com, Forest discussed how he landed the role, revealing that he had to read for the producers three times before being cast.

 They had me take my shirt off to see if I had the muscles they were looking for,  Forest recalled.  Then they wanted me to do it in a British accent. I said,  That, for me, won't work out. I can give you Mid-Atlantic theater speech, which I think will work for this character.'

 So I read it in that vernacular and they said,  Yes,' and came to the conclusion that I was the one to play the role. 

6 In a 2012 interview with StarTrek.com, Forest discussed how he landed the role, revealing that he had to read for the producers three times before being cast. (Forest is pictured above at the 17th annual  Star Trek  convention in Las Vegas in 2018.) Getty Images

6 Forest (pictured above at the  Star Trek  convention in 2008) also appeared in  Zorro,   The Twilight Zone  and the 2000 film  Cast Away.  Jeff Frank/ZUMA Press Wire / Shutterstock

Elsewhere in the interview, Forest admitted that he felt the work he had done before and after his  Star Trek  appearance was  as good, if not better  than the episode itself, but acknowledged that the role had  really given [him his] 15 minutes of fame. 

Forest was also among 40  Star Trek  actors to appear in Snoop Dogg's 2020 sci-fi film  Unbelievable!!!!!,  a parody of the iconic franchise.

Beyond  Star Trek,  Forest worked as a voice actor, starred in B movies produced by Roger Corman, and appeared in television series including  Zorro,   The Dick Van Dyke Show,   The Twilight Zone  and  Gilligan's Island,  as well as the 2000 film  Cast Away.