Like many of Star Trek’s biggest fans, John Tesh grew up watching Captain Kirk fighting the Klingons, so it likely felt like a major honor to get under all the makeup and appear onscreen as one of these fearsome warriors.

It may have been a quick cameo, but in showing us more of Worf’s strange (and strangely painful) rituals, Tesh even got to usher in some important lore about the franchise’s most famous aliens. And we’ll definitely be on the lookout for this musician-turned-reporter next time we check out the hurts-in-a-good-way climax of “The Icarus Factor.”