Erik Nash

Template:Realworld Erik Nash (born 21 December 1959; age 64) is a motion picture visual effects artist who has worked on two Star Trek films and two of Star Trek series. 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 a number of Emmy Award nominations with his fellow effects artists working on the series. Of the five Emmy nominations received, he and his department won two.

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, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. His work on I, Robot helped earn Digital Domain its fifth Academy Award nomination in the Best Visual Effects category.

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