Fanboy Forum: INCONCIEVABLE! Fanboy Favorite Birthdays we almost missed!

The continuation of the Top Ten will have to wait just a bit so we can wish a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to some Fanboy favorites!

And yes, I know I am late with this one, but I have to ake coffee for Pharaoh. What can I say Howard Schultz needs to pay the electric on his summer home.

Everyone's favorite Ferengi

Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949)

Shimerman is best known for his role as the Ferengi bar owner Quark in the long running television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, though his involvement with the Star Trek franchise began with appearances as other Ferengi characters in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Last Outpost" and "Peak Performance". As the character Quark, Shimerman became one of Star Trek's most widely-known characters, and he appeared several times on the cover of TV Guide, either with other actors or alone as part of a collector's series. He says that his favorite episode of Deep Space Nine was "Little Green Men" as it was the only episode where he is shown captaining a ship.

Shimerman and Max Grodénchik played the characters of two Ferengi brothers, Quark and Rom, on DeepSpace 9

Along with Marina Sirtis, John de Lancie, Michael Ansara and Richard Poe, he is one of only a few actors to play the same character on three different Star Trek series. He played Quark in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

In addition to Star Trek, Shimerman has had roles as Pascal on Beauty and the Beast and as Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He also has starred in Stargate SG-1 as one of the Nox, an evil wizard in Charmed, appeared as Stan the caddy in an episode of Seinfeld, and as Dr. Patemkin on Leverage.

Shimerman has appeared as judge Brian Hooper in the third season of Boston Legal, joining fellow Star Trek actors William Shatner, Rene Auberjonois, and Ethan Phillips; Shatner played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, Auberjonois played Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Phillips played Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. His character even shared a scene with Auberjonois, with the strife between the two characters reminiscent of the conflict between Shimerman's Quark and Auberjonois's Odo.

"The creature is driven by rage, and pursued by an investigative reporter...." But he really seems like a nice guy...

Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951)

In 1977, Ferrigno was cast in the title role opposite Bill Bixby as the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk. Although Ferrigno and Bixby did not share lines on camera (except for one episode, "King of the Beach"), the two were friends, with Ferrigno describing Bixby as a "mentor" and "father figure" who took Ferrigno under his wing. Ferrigno also singles out the instances in which Bixby directed Ferrigno in some episodes as particularly memorable.

Ferrigno continued playing the Hulk role until 1981—although the last two episodes were not broadcast until May 1982. Later, he and Bixby co-starred in three The Incredible Hulk TV movies.

Ferrigno had trained Michael Jackson on and off since the early 1990s, and in 2009, he had been helping Jackson get into shape for a planned series of concerts in London

He made cameo appearances as a security guard in both the 2003 film Hulk and the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, in which he also voiced the Hulk.

Ferrigno stated in an interview that he would be involved in the 2012 The Avengers movie.

As an infant, Lou suffered an ear infection and lost some of his hearing. Ferrigno started weight training at age 13, citing body builder and Hercules

star Steve Reeves as one of his role models.Ferrigno sees his loss of hearing as influential towards bodybuilding and his life: "...if I hadn't lost some of my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I had to be better than the average person to succeed."

He was also a fan of the Hercules films that starred Reeves—and would later play Hercules as well.

Ferrigno's other personal heroes as a child were Spider-Man and the Hulk.

"What do you mean there's no cake?!?"

Robert Duncan McNeil (born November 9, 1964)

First seen in the Star Trek Universe in "The First Duty", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which he played Nick Locarno, a Starfleet Academy cadet and squad leader who pressures fellow cadet Wesley Crusher into covering up their wrongdoings.

He would later become a Star Trek regular in 1995 on Star Trek: Voyager, on which he played Tom Paris, a Starfleet officer with a backstory similar to Locarno's.

Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943)

Shawn quite often appears on television, where he has appeared in many genres and series. He has had recurring roles as the Grand Nagus Zek on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,

Casting director Janet Hirshenson was so fond of his delivery of the word 'inconceivable' that she cast him as the evil Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987).

Shawn is also a voice actor for animated films and animated TV series, including the role of the timid Rex in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Hawaiian Vacation and Monsters, Inc. (cameo appearance in the outtakes as Rex the Green Dinosaur),

Mr. Incredible's diminutive boss Gilbert Huph in The Incredibles, Stewie Griffin's half-brother Bertram in Family Guy.

and Munk in Happily N'Ever After.

Shawn also cameoed as the voice of Principal Fetchit in Chicken Little.

In The Fox and the Hound, he provided the voice of Boomer, but he was soon replaced by the late Paul Winchell. Shawn also replaced Jon Lovitz as the voice of the elderly Calico in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, the 2010 sequel to the 2001 film Cats & Dogs. Coincidentally, Lovitz and Shawn both appeared in the 2007 film I Could Never Be Your Woman.

Max Grodénchik (born November 12, 1952)

Grodénchik is better known for his portrayal of the fictional character Rom on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

He had previously auditioned for the role of Rom's brother Quark, but the role was given to Armin Shimerman. The two both guest-appeared on opposite teams in the short lived British Sci-Fi Quiz show Space Cadets, in 1997.

He played Sovak and Par Lenor in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Captain's Holiday" and "The Perfect Mate". He is famous for being an expert on the Rules of Acquisition and can quote them by memory.

In Spring 2007, Grodénchik attended the annual Vulcan Spockdays ceremony.