Wait a minute... That's not James Cromwell!
Zephram Cochrane, known as Mr. Cockreign, also known to his friends as "That'll Do Pig", was the inventor of the spatial anomaly, the temporal discontinuity, and most famously, Easy Cheese. He was also notable for being the first human to be punched in the face by a Vulcan.
Dr. Cochrane had many adventures throughout his life, like watching everyone he ever knew converted to ash in a nuclear holocaust or being molested for decades by a cloud monster. And you wonder why he drank.