David Lee Smith (born 8 September 1963; age 61) is the actor who played Zahir in the Star Trek: Voyager third season episode "Darkling".
During his early television career, Smith worked primarily on daytime soap operas, having made recurring appearances on As the World Turns, All My Children, and One Life to Live. Smith would go on to have a recurring role on Pacific Blue (working with the likes of David L. Lander and Robin Sachs), NBC's The Naked Truth (five episodes, including one with David Huddleston and one with Kenneth Mars), and NBC's Providence (with Tim Kelleher, Tim Ransom, and Michael Reilly Burke). He has also made single appearances on shows such as Dharma & Greg, Just Shoot Me! (starring Wendie Malick), V.I.P., JAG (1998, with James Ingersoll, Sara Mornell, and James Parks; 2001, with Sam Hennings, Billy Mayo, and Jennifer Savidge), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2002, starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with Wayne Péré and Wade Andrew Williams and 2004 with Mark Lentry, Wallace Langham and Dan Warner). Both also featured Victor Bevine.
In addition to his television work, Smith has been seen in such films as Fight Club (1999, featuring David Andrews, Tim de Zarn, Zach Grenier, Michael Shamus Wiles, and Matt Winston), A Walk to Remember (2002, also with David Andrews),Mysterious Skin (2004, with Richard Riehle), and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2007, with Star Trek: The Next Generation guest actress Ashley Judd and Fionnula Flanagan).
In 2007, Smith had a role in Zodiac from Fight Club director David Fincher. Smith's Fight Club co-stars (and fellow Trek actors) Zach Grenier and Matt Winston also appear, withJune Diane Raphael, John Carroll Lynch, J. Patrick McCormack, and Thomas Kopache.
In December 2007, Smith starred in Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth, co-starring John Billingsley, Richard Riehle, and Tony Todd.
From 2003 to 2010, Smith had a recurring role as IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler on CBS' CSI: Miami. During his time on this series, Smith appeared with such Trek veterans as Ed Begley, Jr., Alan Dale, Galyn Görg, Dina Meyer, Rudolf Martin, Kevin McCorkle, Sterling Macer, Jr., and Holmes R. Osborne.