Scott Thomson (born 29 October 1957; age 66) (citation needed • edit) is the actor who portrayed Goss in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season episode "The Price".
His first feature film was Smokey and the Bandit (1977, with Paul Williams and Paul Sorensen. Later he appeared in Parasite (1982, with Tom Villard). Thomson's well known appearance came in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, with Ray Walston, Vincent Schiavelli, and Hallie Todd) and he starred in Frightmare (1983, with Jeffrey Combs), Johnny Dangerously (1984, with Ray Walston, Joe Piscopo, and Vincent Schiavelli), and Ghoulies (1985).
Thomson played Chad Copeland in Police Academy (1984, with David Graf and Kim Cattrall), Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986, with David Graf, Arthur Batanides, and Brian Tochi) and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987, with David Graf, Brian Tochi and Carolyn Scott).
Other films include The Couch Trip (1988, with Michael Ensign, Don Stark, and John Mahon), Casual Sex? (1988, with Dan Woren, Leslie Morris, Tina Lifford, Barbara Harris, David McCharen, and Gary Schwartz), Day One (1989, with David Ogden Stiers and Alan Scarfe), Jack the Bear (1993, with Stefan Gierasch, Bert Remsen, Lorinne Vozoff, Kevin McDermott, and Kelly Connell), Mr. Jones (1993, with Thomas Kopache, Peter Vogt, Irene Tsu, Albert Henderson, and John Durbin), My Summer Story (1994, with Roy Brocksmith, Wayne Grace, and Frank Collison), Twister (1996, with Alan Ruck, Sean Whalen, Zach Grenier, Patrick Fischler, Richard Lineback, and Bruce Wright), Blast from the Past (1999, with Ryan Sparks, Richard Gilbert-Hill, and Annie O'Donnell), Loser (2000, with Andy Dick, Robert Miano, and Andrea Martin), Jonathan Frakes' Clockstoppers (2002, starring Ken Jenkins, Jenette Goldstein, Gina Hecht, Jeff Ricketts, and Billy Mayo), and Assumption (2006).
Thomson has appeared in television series such as The Greatest American Hero (1981), T. J. Hooker (with William Shatner and Richard Herd and directed by Cliff Bole), Hunter (1989, with Fionnula Flanagan, Alan Scarfe, and Nicholas Guest), Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1990, with Sherman Howard and Clyde Kusatsu), The Cosby Mysteries (1994, with Zach Grenier), Big Love (2009, with Robert Beltran, Miriam Flynn, Noa Tishby, and Time Winters), and Ghost Whisperer (2009, with Kelli Kirkland).
More recently he had a guest part in an episode of True Blood (2010, with Kristin Bauer and Gregg Daniel) and appeared in the comedy Vamps (2011, with Wallace Shawn and Malcolm McDowell) and Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation (2012, with Jeffrey Combs and Rhonda Aldrich).