I'm watch a re-run of "The Outer Limits" on TV right now and I see Ron Rifken in an episode called "Double Helix (episode #85)".
http://www.tv.com/origin-of-species/episod...05/summary.html
Originally aired: Friday November 27, 1998 on Showtime
Writer: Naren Shankar
Director: Brad Turner
Story: Jonathan Glassner, Naren Shankar
Show Stars: Kevin Conway (The Control Voice)
All Guest Stars: Ron Rifkin (Dr. Ira Nodel), Ryan Reynolds (Paul Nodel), Kathleen Duborg (Hope), William de Vry (Ben), Silvio Pollio (Anthony), Terri-Lynn Ibisoglu (Sarah), Clare Lapinskie (Clare), Kirby Morrow (Kirby), Tara Spencer-Nairn (Heather)
In this sequel to Double Helix, Dr. Ira Nodel (RON RIFKIN) has his body altered
to communicate with aliens who have seeded Earth with their genetic material.
He is joined on an alien spaceship by son Paul (Ryan Reynolds), Paul's
girlfriend Hope (Kathleen Duborg), and six students. But, when Dr. Nodel
touches a glowing post in the ship's control room, both he and Paul are
consumed by a mysterious light. This leads Hope and the students to believe
that they've been lead into a trap, a suspicion that is reinforced when the ship
captures two of the students and pulls them through the wall. Desperate to find
out what's going on, Hope reads Dr. Nodel's journal and risks her life by
touching the glowing post. Her body begins the same transformation, and a
strange glowing entity speaks in the voices of Dr. Nodel and Paul, trying to
communicate with her. The ship, however, continues to snatch the students
two by two, until finally they are all suspended, naked and unconscious in a
black void. When they awaken some time later, they find the ship has landed
on a dead planet. Have the aliens who promised that they were part of a great
experiment in hope, led them astray?