David A. Kimball (born 20 February 1951; age 74) is the actor who played Esaak in the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Dear Doctor".
Kimball has also guest-starred on a number of other television programs, with the earliest being a 1987 episode of Hill Street Blues which also featured future Star Trek: Voyager actor Tim Russ, as well as Terrence Evans, Anne Haney, James Saito, David Selburg, and Blues regulars Megan Gallagher and James B. Sikking. This was followed with appearances on such comedies as Murphy Brown (in an episode with Erick Avari) and 3rd Rock from the Sun, and numerous dramas, including Beverly Hills, 90210 (with Ann Gillespie and Leonard Kelly-Young), L.A. Law (1992, starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake, with Eric Server), Picket Fences (with Concetta Tomei), 7th Heaven (starring Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks, with Graham Jarvis), JAG (with Corbin Bernsen and Gary Graham), ER (with Time Winters), and The West Wing (starring Martin Sheen, with Brett Cullen, Richard Fancy, and Stephen Root), Babylon 5 (starring Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy and Jeff Conaway, with Henry Darrow) as well as J.J. Abrams' Alias (2003, starring Merrin Dungey, with Terry O'Quinn). In addition, he appeared in Boston Legal, starring William Shatner and René Auberjonois, with Crystal Allen, Leslie Jordan, Lisa Kaminir, J. Patrick McCormack and Michael Wiseman.
His feature film credits include a small role as a doctor in Clean and Sober (1988, co-starring Dakin Matthews) and a minor supporting role in The Firm (1993, starring Holly Hunter, with Paul Sorvino). He later appeared in Sinatra (1992, with Marc Adams, Brad Blaisdell, Christopher Carroll, Jeff Corey, Robin Gammell, Bruce Gray, Bob Gunton, Jay Robinson, Jack Shearer, Don Stark and Todd Waring).