Played by Aaron Stanford, Sneed is streetwise, confident and relishes the game he’s playing, dumping the decapitated head of a former associate on a table to prove the operative is lying.Īnd when Armin Shimerman, one of the first actors to play a Ferengi on TV, saw Stanford’s work as Sneed, he admits it brought one feeling above all.
It was a key scene in the second episode of what has become a triumphant final season for Paramount+’s science fiction series “Star Trek: Picard.”Ī corrupt crime boss named Sneed - from a hyper-capitalistic alien race called the Ferengi - has a cat-and-mouse-style conversation with a woman pretending to be an addict who is actually an undercover intelligence operative.