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Krosskove with Dan Curry and Corey Allen on the set of "Journey's End".

Kris Krosskove (born 6 September 1954; age 69) is a cinematographer and camera operator who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He began working on Star Trek in the sixth season of The Next Generation, as the camera operator of cinematographer Jonathan West, and followed him to Deep Space Nine, where he and West worked from the third sseason onwards. He also served as substitute director of photography when West was directing the actual episode. Krosskove also worked as steadicam operator on the Star Trek: Picard third season episode "The Next Generation".

Krosskove's motion picture credits include working as a dolly grip on Halloween II (1981) and The Thing (1982), as an additional assistant camera on Back to the Future Part II (1989, starring Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson) and as an additional camera operator on The Flintstones (1994). He was also the first assistant cameraman on Dick Tracy (1989, featuring Colm Meaney, John Schuck, Ian Wolfe, Seymour Cassel, Hamilton Camp, Chuck Hicks, Mike Hagerty, Robert Costanzo, Ed McCready, Bert Remsen, Walker Edmiston and Michael J. Pollard).

Since the end of Deep Space Nine, he has worked on Charmed as cinematographer and camera operator, again with Jonathan West. In 2000, he worked with West, as well as Deep Space Nine actress Leslie Ackerman, on the movie What's Eating You?. Also in 2000 he worked as camera operator on Jonathan Frakes' Star Trek spoof Star Patrol!.

In 2007 he acted as director of photography on the feature film Reach for Me, which was directed by Trek director and actor LeVar Burton. Notably, the film was the first one to be shot in the 4K Digital Cinema format. He was camera operator and director of photography on the remake television series Knight Rider (2008-2009) and camera operator on several big budget Hollywood films.

These include Piranha 3D (2010, with Christopher Lloyd, Adam Scott, Dina Meyer, and Bonnie Morgan), The Mechanic (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011, with Brian George), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014, with Chris Pine, Jonathan Banks, Sam Richardson, Lennon Parham, and Bill Blair), The Last Witch Hunter (2015, with Bonnie Morgan), Ad Astra (2019, with Freda Foh Shen and Greg Bryk), and Thunder Force (2021), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, starring Chris Pine, with Tom Morello), as well as Iron Man 2 (2010, with Stan Lee), Green Lantern (2011, with Gattlin Griffith, Salome Jens, and Clancy Brown), The Avengers (2012, starring Chris Hemsworth, with Kenneth Tigar and Stan Lee), and Justice League (2017).

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