Tommy Hinkley
Tommy Hinkley (born 31 May 1960; age 65) is an actor who played a journalist in Star Trek Generations.
In a 2025 TV Talk Show interview with Bryan Kreutz and Lili Fox-Lim on "A Captain's Log", Tommy Hinkley revealed when he was a journalist from FPC , present at the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise-B, he doesn't remember anything being scripted playing this role. He also revealed an assistant director warned him and the cast that the Enterprise-B railing was made of wood and is breakable. After a stunt done by William Shatner forces him to fall over Tommy Hinkley, it breaks the wood railing by throwing Shatner's weight on him and rolling over him. This hit and shattering rail happened during one take. Tommy received six months of chiropractic work for the injury. /
Born in El Centro, California, Hinkley appeared in several movies and series since the late '80s. His credits include the short comedy I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney (1993 with Johanna McCloy), The Cable Guy (1996, with Andy Dick), the action thriller Under Pressure (2000, with Craig Wasson, Stanley Kamel and Michael Cavanaugh), and The Little Vampire (2000, with Alice Krige).
Hinkley has also appeared in several television series such as Cold Case, Without a Trace, Angel, ER, The Division, and That '70s Show.
As a close friend of George Clooney, Hinkley had supporting parts in some of Clooney's films: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002, with Carlos Carrasco, Daniel Zacapa, Richard Kind, Matt Damon, Michael Ensign and Monika Spruch), Ocean's Thirteen (2007, starring Matt Damon, with Ray Xifo and David Paymer), and Leatherheads (2008, with Stephen Root and J.D. Cullum).