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Folkert Schmidt (born 11 April 1952; age 73) is the actor who portrayed a Starfleet doctor in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "Contagion".
Schmidt's other acting credits include Those She Left Behind (1989, starring Gary Cole, with George Coe, Joel Polis, Judyann Elder, David Selburg, and Wyatt Knight), I Come in Peace (1990, with Matthias Hues, Sam Anderson, Sherman Howard, Michael J. Pollard, Tony Brubaker, and Gary Baxley), Stone Cold (1991, starring Lance Henriksen, with Nick Dimitri and Tom Magee), and Judicial Consent (1994, with Henry Brown).