Michael Barrier (8 July 1933 – 26 February 2024; age 90) was an actor who played DeSalle in the Star Trek: The Original Series first and second season episodes "The Squire of Gothos", "This Side of Paradise", and "Catspaw".
Barrier filmed his scenes for "The Squire of Gothos" between Friday 28 October 1966 and Friday 4 November 1966 at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10. He filmed his scenes for "This Side of Paradise" between Thursday 5 January 1967 and Monday 9 January 1967 on location at the Golden Oak Ranch, and his scenes for "Catspaw" on Tuesday 2 May 1967 at Stage 9.
Barrier, the son of noted radio and film actor Edgar Barrier, served four years in the military and attended UCLA before he embarked on a television and movie acting career that spanned the 1960s, and mostly consisted in appearances as military or police-type character.
His acting roles included an appearance in the television series The Law and Mr. Jones (1960, with Christopher Held and William Sargent), The Rebel (1960; with Hal Needham), Michael Shayne (1961, with Dick Crockett and Meade Martin), the TV movie Las Vegas Beat (1961, with Bill Couch, Sr. and Lawrence Dobkin), followed by appearances in episodes from the series Hennesey (1961), The Untouchables (1962, starring Robert Stack, and with Paul Baxley), two episodes of Gunsmoke (1962;, the first directed by Joseph Sargent, the second appearing with James Doohan, Ed Peck, and Bill Zuckert), Ripcord (1963, with Paul Fix), three appearances on My Favorite Martian (1964-65, starring Ray Walston and directed by David Alexander), followed by an appearance on Rawhide (1965, with Bill Catching and George Murdock), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965, with Barbara Bouchet), Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1965; with Tige Andrews), and Bonanza (1965, with Louise Sorel and directed by Gerd Oswald). During the same time frame, he appeared in an unspecified episode of Ben Casey. [1](X)
Following an uncredited appearance in the 1965 film The Satan Bug, featuring John Anderson, along with uncredited appearances by James Doohan, Lawrence Montaigne and Paul Sorensen, he made several more television appearances, including Combat! (1966, with David Ross), 12 O'Clock High (1966, with Peter Duryea and Robert Walker), and Mission: Impossible (1966, with William Smithers, Don Marshall, Eddie Paskey, Victor Tayback, and Jack Donner). After his three appearances on Star Trek, which followed, his final acting credit was Angel in My Pocket (1969, with Lee Meriwether and Jack Perkins).
After leaving the acting profession to enter law school, he joined the US Coast Guard, and by 1985, with the rank of lieutenant commander, served as the assistant legal officer of the 11th Coast Guard District by 1985, before being promoted by 1987 to legal officer of the same district. [2](X)[3]
According to an interview, published in #17-87 (September 30, 1987) issue of the Commandant's Bulletin (p. 42), when asked in he was "a Trekkie?" He admitted, "No. He doesn't watch reruns on TV, and he's only seen two of the Star Trek movies – and he can't recall which two."
In 2024, it was reported by his daughter on Facebook that he had died. [4] It was later confirmed that he had died on February 26. [5]