Erik Nash (born 21 December 1959; age 52) 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. Both the starship USS Nash and the Starfleet officer Erik Nash were likely named for him.

Nash first contributed to the Trek franchise as a special visual consultant on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which also happened to be the start of his professional Hollywood career. 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. For his work on these two shows, he shared the following four Emmy Award nominations and two wins for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects:

• 1990 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "Tin Man", shared with Robert Legato, Gary Hutzel, Steve Price, Don Greenberg, Don Lee, and Michael Okuda
• 1991 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Best of Both Worlds", shared with Gary Hutzel, Robert Legato, David Takemura, Michael Okuda, Don Greenberg, Steve Price, Syd Dutton, Robert Stromberg, Bill Taylor, and Don Lee
• 1991 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", shared with Robert Legato, Gary Hutzel, David Takemura, Patrick Clancey, Steve Price, Michael Okuda, Syd Dutton, Bill Taylor, and Don Lee
• 1992 Emmy Award for the episode "A Matter of Time", shared with Dan Curry, Ronald B. Moore, David Takemura, Don Lee, Peter Sternlicht, Adam Howard, Syd Dutton, and Robert Stromberg
• 1994 Emmy Award for the episode "All Good Things...", shared with Dan Curry, David Stipes, Michael Backauskas, Scott Rader, and Adam Howard
• 1995 Emmy Award nomination for the episode "The Jem'Hadar", shared with Glenn Neufeld, David Takemura, Joshua Cushner, Les Bernstien, Adam Howard, Patrick Clancey, and Don Lee

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.

Nash's other Digital Domain visual effects photography credits include Apollo 13, Titanic, and xXx. He also worked as Digital Domain's visual effects supervisor on films such as Armageddon, I, Robot, 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.

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External link Edit

• Erik Nash at the Internet Movie Database