Gene Poe
Gene Poe  is an actor who appeared as an Enterprise sciences crewmember in the recreation deck scene in . He received no credit for this appearance.

Poe was born in Lynchburg and raised in Alatavista, Virginia. He attended William Campbell High School and graduated from Altavista High School. He earned his BS in Directing and Acting from Virginia Commonwealth University and studied at the Guildhall in London, UK, besides touring through Europe.During this time, Poe appeared as a background actor, an American hippie alongside Dennis Christopher, in his first film, 's Roma (1972).

Following his move back to the US, Poe settled down in Los Angeles, California in 1972. He has started to work as actor and stand-in and worked on print ads, magazine shoots, as hand double, and frequent background actor on television series and films. Among his acting appearances are the comedy Fantasm (1976, with Clement von Franckenstein), the action drama Two-Minute Warning (1976, with Brock Peters, Allan Miller, Mitchell Ryan, Garry Walberg, Freddie Hice, Tom Huff, Glenn R. Wilder, Gary Combs, David Armstrong, Peter Paul Eastman, Bob Harks, and Branscombe Richmond), the short film Killers Matinee (1978), and the sport drama Raging Bull (1980, with Gene LeBell, Shay Duffin, Nick Trisko, Bob Harks, Chuck Hicks, David LeBell, Gil Perkins, and McKenzie Westmore).

Poe worked on various television series as background actor including The Love Boat, M*A*S*H*, Baa Baa Black Sheep, four episodes of Cheers (1982, with Buzz Barbee, Gerald David Bauman, David Channell, Dwayne McGee, Ron Cragg, and Ian Wolfe and 1983 with Walter Smith), Dynasty (1982, 1986, and 1988 along with Lee Bergere, Joan Collins, Suzanne Lodge, Roger Trantham, John Copage, Joel Marston, Robert Pine, Clayton Landey, Tim McCormack, Kimberly L. Ryusaki, Bob Davis, Peter Paul Eastman, Robert Hitchcock, John Hugh McKnight, Mike Paciorek, Tony Rocco, Beau Billingslea, Gayle Frank, Philip Weyland, Michael Ensign, Fran Bennett, and Richard Sarstedt), The Colbys (1986 and 1987, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Ray Wise, Ian Abercrombie, Buzz Barbee, John Blower, Devron Conrad, John Copage, Suzanne Lodge, Lynda Robertson, Tony Rocco, Bob Davis, George Sasaki, Judson Scott, Ray Petersen, Joel Marston, Peter Paul Eastman, John Staible, Georgann Johnson, Peter White, and Tim McCormack), The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, Matlock, Ellen (1994, 1997, and 1998 with Steven Anderson), Roseanne (1996), and Arli$$ (2000, with Joe Piscopo).

Other acting work includes the television mini-series Once an Eagle (1976, with Cliff Potts, Darleen Carr, Anthony Zerbe, George Murdock, James Cromwell, David Huddleston, Andrew Robinson, William Windom, James Ingersoll, Bob Harks, and Marty Valinsky) and the war drama Swing Shift (1984, with Patty Maloney, Joey Aresco, Charles Napier, Penny Johnson, Bob Harks, Dick Miller, and Danny Nero).

Poe was president of the Screen Extras Guild for five years and worked on the Board of Directors for thirteen years. He was also on the Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors for twelve years and served on the Board of Trustees of the SAG Health & Pension Plan.

In the more recent years, Poe appeared as Justice of the Peace on the drama The Vampire's Dance (2008) and worked as stand-in for  on the Marvel Comics adaptation Thor (2011, with Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Joseph Gatt, Jamie McShane, Jim Palmer, J. Michael Straczynski, Stan Lee, Rob Mars, Troy Brenna, Derek Graf, and Douglas Tait).

In 2013, Poe retired from acting and has since worked as a multimedia artist with creating digital paintings.

External links 
  – official site
 

Performers
Film performers