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Dan Carton is an actor who appeared in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. He received no credit for his appearances. Carton also appeared as a Cardassian on the promo photo for Star Trek: The Experience for which he was photographed on 6 October 1995.
For the episode "Defiant", Carton filmed his scenes between Monday 3 October 1994 and Wednesday 5 October 1994 on Paramount Stage 4.
Also in 1994, Carton briefly appeared as Alfalfa's dad in the remake of The Little Rascals, a comedy which also featured Whoopi Goldberg, Kenny Yee, and Mike Avery.