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Dean Gates is a makeup artist who worked on Star Trek Generations and for seven years on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

On 7 October 1994, during production of the episode "Defiant", René Auberjonois was scheduled to film a special effects scene only, his morphing scene for the episode "The Abandoned", scene 20. Together with Gates, hair stylist Norma Lee, and costumer Jerry Bono, he was picked up by a car at 12:30 pm and transported into the valley to Image G North to film this scene in front of a green screen.

This work earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1994 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for the episode "Rules of Acquisition", shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Karen Westerfield, Dean Jones, Tina Hoffman, David Quashnick, Mike Smithson, Hank Edds, Michael Key, and Gilbert A. Mosko. The following year he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for the episode "Distant Voices", shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Dean Jones, Karen Iverson, Scott Wheeler, Michael Key, David Quashnick, Karen Westerfield, Gilbert A. Mosko, and Thom E. Surprenant.

Prior to his work on Star Trek, Gates worked as special effects makeup artist/supervisor on projects such Eyes of a Stranger (1981), Day of the Dead (1985), Nightmare Weekend (1986), Maximum Overdrive (1986), Blue Velvet (1986, with Dean Jones), Dracula's Widow (1988, with June Westmore), The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), Look Who's Talking (1989, with Todd McIntosh), Transylvania Twist (1989, with Dean Jones, Cristina Patterson Ceret, and Starr Jones), She-Wolf of London (1990-1991), the horror comedy Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992, with Thom E. Surprenant), Super Mario Bros. (1993, with R. Christopher Biggs, Rob Burman, Roxy D'Alonzo, Vincent J. Guastini, Katherine Rees, Adam Brandy, and Jake Garber), Jurassic Park (1993), Coneheads (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), and Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994).

Beside his work as makeup designer on the 2004 horror short film Moondance, Gates made his directorial debut with the 2000 horror film Oliver Twisted.

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