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Erik Nash (born 21 December 1959; age 64) is a motion picture visual effects artist who has worked on two Star Trek films and episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He had both the starship USS Nash and the Starfleet officer Erik Nash named after him.

Nash first contributed to the Trek franchise as a visual effects camera assistant, while in the employ of Apogee, Inc., on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which also happened to be the start of his professional Hollywood career. [1] During the 1980s, he worked as an assistant editor on a number of short films directed by special effects artist Douglas Trumbull, who also worked on Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

In the early 1990s, he became a motion control technician at the special effects company Image G, during which time he worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Having spent a total of eight seasons on both shows, his work on these shows, has earned him four Emmy Award nominations and two wins for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects.

In 1995, Nash joined Digital Domain as a visual effects director of photography and seemingly left the Star Trek franchise behind – until 2002, when Digital Domain was contracted to produce the visual effects for Star Trek Nemesis. As such, Nash oversaw the photography of that film's visual effects.

Career outside Star Trek[]

Nash's other Digital Domain visual effects photography credits include Apollo 13 (1995), Titanic (1997, alongside several other former Star Trek VFX staffers [2]), and XXX (2000). He also worked as Digital Domain's visual effects supervisor on films such as Armageddon (1998), I, Robot (2004), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and Real Steel (2011). His work on I, Robot helped earn Digital Domain its fifth Academy Award nomination in the Best Visual Effects category, shared with Joe Letteri and also earned the company another Saturn Award nomination for Best Special Effects. For his work on Real Steel, Nash was nominated in 2012 for an Academy Award in the category "Best Visual Effects".

Star Trek credits[]

Emmy Awards[]

As Motion Control Supervisor/Cameraman/Camera Operator/Programmer, Erik Nash received the following Emmy Award wins and nominations in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects:

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