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Benjamin "Ben" A. Betts (born 16 July 1969; age 54) is a computer graphics and video playback engineer.

He worked in these capacities on a number of episodes and movies for the Star Trek live-action franchise, including Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek Nemesis.

After an absence of fifteen years, Betts was brought back on the franchise by Showrunner Terry Matalas and Production Designer Dave Blass to work on the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard, where he joined the team of Berman-era Star Trek production staff veterans, Matalas and Blass had assembled for the show. [1]

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Betts has also worked on seaQuest DSV (also featuring Raphael Sbarge, Frank Welker, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Parker Whitman, Cameron Thor, W. Morgan Sheppard, Robert Bonchune, Carleton Eastlake, Christopher James Miller, James Contner, Les Landau, Rachael Harris, Richard Herd, and William Shatner), The Nutty Professor (1996, also featuring Athena Massey), and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, also featuring Katy Boyer, Geno Silva, Robin Sachs, Marjean Holden, J. Patrick McCormack, Charles Picerni, Jr., Harry Hutchinson, Ian Abercrombie, and Jacqueline Schultz).

In 2005, he, alongside former Star Trek department colleague Denise Okuda, worked on the Threshold television series, which Brent Spiner starred on, Brannon Braga executive produced, and Michael Sussman wrote several episodes for.

Betts' expertise as a video playback engineer has earned him the nickname "Ben Video" among his colleagues.

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