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Stuart Baird and Patrick Stewart on the set of Nemesis
Stuart Baird is an English editor and director of Hollywood films. In 2002, he directed Star Trek Nemesis. He also voiced the Scimitar computer in the film.
Prior to Nemesis, Baird had directed the action films Executive Decision (1996) and U.S. Marshals (1998). The former featured Star Trek alumni Andreas Katsulas, Brad Blaisdell, Len Cariou, Tim Kelleher, Warren Munson, Richard Riehle, Eugene Roche, and Dey Young in the cast, while the latter had Daniel Roebuck. Jerry Goldsmith was the composer for both of these films, and would go on to compose the music for Nemesis. Whether by coincidence or design, both of these movies as well as Nemesis had air decompression sequences in which people are sucked out of an airplane (or, in the case of Nemesis, a starship) due to sudden air decompression.
Baird's primary occupation, however, is that of film editor. It was in this capacity that Baird earned two Academy Award nominations: one in for his work on the classic 1978 Superman movie and another for 1988's Gorillas in the Mist. Other films he has edited include the classic 1976 horror movie The Omen (for which Jerry Goldsmith also composed), 1985's Ladyhawke, and the first two Lethal Weapon films (1987 and 1989). He more recently edited such films as Demolition Man (1993), Maverick (1994), The Legend of Zorro (2005), and the latest installment in the James Bond franchise, Casino Royale (2006).
In order to get the job directing Nemesis, Baird re-edited some scenes for the Paramount Pictures films Mission: Impossible II and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, both released in 2001 (he also served as an executive producer on the latter).
After the release and subsequent failure of Star Trek Nemesis at the box office, Star Trek actors LeVar Burton and Marina Sirtis criticized Baird for not being knowledgeable about the Star Trek universe and for not even watching a single episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Sirtis said that TNG was about the relationships of the crew, and Baird didn't take that into account. Burton said that Baird would have a special place in his heart because in the first six weeks of shooting Nemesis he kept calling Burton "Laverne."
External Links
- Stuart Baird at Wikipedia
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