Wyatt Knight (20 January 1955 – 26 October 2011; age 56) was an actor who portrayed a Relva VII technician in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Coming of Age".
Knight is best known for playing the role of Tommy Turner in the Porky's series of films which also starred Next Generation guest star Nancy Parsons. The first Porky's, released in 1982, also featured future Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country actress Kim Cattrall. Knight later appeared in 1999's Baby Geniuses, also starring Cattrall as well as Christopher Lloyd.
Knight's first known television role was a guest appearance on The Waltons, opposite Christopher Carroll in the 1979 episode "The Torch". He went on to guest star in an episode of T.J. Hooker along with series regulars William Shatner, James Darren, and Richard Herd.
In 1990, he appeared in the television movie Family of Spies, as did fellow Star Trek alumni Vaughn Armstrong, Wren T. Brown, Gordon Clapp, and Boris Krutonog. He also appeared in an episode of Chicago Hope with Alan Oppenheimer in 2000.
On 26 October 2011, Knight was found dead in a remote area of Maui, Hawaii following treatment for advanced non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [1] [2] He was 56. His death is suspected by authorities to be a suicide. [3] [4]