Bezos Made a Cameo Appearance on the Movie Star Trek Beyond

Bezos played the role of an alien Starfleet official in the 2016 Star Trek Beyond the big-screen voyage of the Starship Enterprise. Director Justin Lin had Bezos play an official who was getting a rescued spacefarer (played by Lydia Wilson) ready for an auto-translated interview with Captain Kirk and a Starfleet officer. “Speak normally,” Bezos’ character advises the alien. Then he walks off camera.

You’d hardly recognize Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos in the super-heavy makeup he wears as an alien Starfleet official in Star Trek Beyond, The “Star Trek” cameo was Bezos’ idea, all the way. The patient, know-it-all computer on the Starship Enterprise inspired Amazon’s Alexa AI assistant. A movie-prop Enterprise holds a prominent place at the Kent headquarters for Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. “For years, I have been begging Paramount, which is owned by Viacom, to let me be in a ‘Star Trek’ movie. I was very persistent, and you can imagine the poor director who got the call, you know, ‘You have to let Bezos be in your Star Trek movie' " Bezos jokes.