"Star Trek: Section 31" takes the franchise on a road less traveled by bringing back "Star Trek: Discovery" standout Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeo) and putting her in charge of a heist. Unlike Star Wars' take on the heist movie theme in 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the often more idealistic and pacifist Trek opts for a much lighter route. Star Trek: Section 31 is B-movie garbage in the best possible way, as Oscar winner Yeo rocks her fallen tyrant character's new role as the head of arguably the most fearsome team a Star Trek project has ever given fans.

Among the film's key members of the Section 31 special operations team is the unpredictable and intense Fuzz, who probably wouldn't be a major character in almost any other Star Trek movie. Fuzz is played by South African actor Sven Ruygrok, a rising star who has been making a name for himself in recent years - both in genre fiction and beyond. Here's where you might have seen it before.

Before its cancellation and move to Netflix in late 2023, Max "Warrior" ranks among the best things on TV. The perennially unsung 19th-century martial arts crime drama has led a rocky life, but it could still get another season if it proves suitably successful on Netflix. For now, though, fans who've already lapped up the show will just have to settle for rewatches... and while they're at it, spot some surprise guest stars.

In the star-studded Warrior Season 3, one such guest star is none other than Sven Ruygrok. He appears in episode 6, titled "A Soft Heart Will Do You No Favors", as the significant but conflicted antagonist Carter. As Richard Lee (Tom Weston-Jones) and Wang Chao (Hun Lee) find themselves chained on a train bound for the former's native Georgia, they must overcome personal differences to survive the wrath of Aunt Violet (Patricia Boyer). whose sons Lee killed. Carter is one of Lee's cousins, and Lee is extremely saddened to learn that the promising young man has been reduced to little more than a henchman - especially since it is in part due to Lee's actions.

Chao and Lee eventually escape the clutches of the angry family, and things end in a way that gives us every reason to believe that this is the last we'll see of Carter. As such, whether or not The Warrior ever gets to continue his story, fans of Ruygrok can at least be assured that his character's arc is coming to a pretty definitive conclusion.

"Star Trek: Section 31" isn't the first time Sven Ruijgrok has played a rogue genre character, and the actor previously played the pirate Kabaji in the Netflix live-action series adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's popular One Piece manga. The hairy, shirtless knife-throwing expert is one of the main henchmen of Buggy the Clown (Jeff Ward), and his knife death wheel can make life extremely uncomfortable for a prisoner.

Kabaji has a very special bone to pick with Roronoa Zoro (Makeniyu), a pirate hunter who finds himself running with the Straw Hat Pirates. Naturally, the two bladed characters come face-to-face when Kabaji catches Zoro in his knife-throwing Wheel of Death in One Piece Season 1 Episode 2, "The Straw Hat Man." Although Kabaddi is not as much of a threat to the main character as he would like to believe, their time together is still crucial to Zoro's story as it marks the first time he openly expresses his support for Monkey D. Luffy (Ignacy Godoy) .

In the source material, Kabbaji hangs around for quite some time, serving as a trusted lieutenant for Buggy and a certain would-be villain whose appearance we won't spoil here. It remains to be seen if the show intends to keep him around to the same extent, but considering he's barely begun to touch on the character's acrobatic abilities, it wouldn't be out of the question to expect more from Ruygrok in the series. second season.

Sven Ruijgrok rose to fame in his native South Africa starring in the 2010 boarding school comedy-drama Spud, playing a student known as Rambo alongside John Cleese and musician-actor Troye Sivan ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine, " The Idol"). He also reprized the role in the film's two sequels, Spud 2: The Madness Continues (2013) and Spud 3: Learning to Fly (2014).

After the first "Spud", Ruygrok soon started getting roles outside of the series. Among other films, he had roles in Jerome Sall's 2013 crime thriller Zulu (aka Cape Town Cops), co-starring Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker, and the sci-fi thriller Jabbar Raisani 2014 Alien Outpost David Prior is curious 2022 horror movie The Empty Man. You can also spot him in movies ranging from "Critters Attack!" — the 2019 reboot of the cult sci-fi horror comedy Critters — and the 2021 Bonnie Rodini comedy-drama Good Life.

On the small screen front, Ruijgrok played the supporting character G-Dog in all 12 episodes of the British summer comedy-drama Beaver Falls from 2011 to 2012. roles in series such as the 2021 Jules Verne adaptation starring David Tennant Around the World in 80 Days and the 2022 miniseries Abraham Lincoln from History. While many of the first reactions to "Star Trek: Section 31" were brutalthe Paramount+ film is the actor's biggest international exposure yet — and with his performance as Fuzz, we may be hearing a lot more from him.

Star Trek: Section 31 is now streaming on Paramount+.