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Richard L. Morrison is an Emmy Award-winning sound re-recording mixer who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. He was also sound mixer on the video games Star Trek: Borg and Star Trek: Klingon.

Morrison has shared eight Emmy Award nominations for his work on the Star Trek franchise in the category Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series and won four of them:

In 2003 he received another Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Single Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie for his work on the television series Taken which he shared with Christopher Haire and Chris Elam.

Morrison also received CAS Awards and nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Series from the Cinema Audio Society for his work on Star Trek:

  • 1994 CAS Award for the episode "Descent", shared with Alan Bernard, Christopher Haire, and Doug Davey
  • 1995 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Genesis", shared with Alan Bernard, Christopher Haire, and Doug Davey
  • 1998 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Future's End", shared with Alan Bernard, Christopher Haire, and Doug Davey
  • 2000 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Equinox", shared with Alan Bernard, Christopher Haire, and Doug Davey
  • 2001 CAS Award nomination for the episode "Unimatrix Zero", shared with Alan Bernard, Christopher Haire, and Doug Davey

In 2003 he received another CAS Award nomination in the category Outstanding Sound Mixing for Television – MOW's and Mini-Series for his work on the television series Taken, again shared with Christopher Haire and Chris Elam.

Other television series on which he has worked include Sweet Valley High (1994-1995), Baywatch (1994-1996), Baywatch Nights (1995), Nash Bridges (2000-2001), Leap of Faith (2002), Taken (2002), Carnivàle (2003), and ER (2006-2008).

Early in his career, Morrison mixed sound for several motion pictures, including the 1986 comedy Nobody's Fool (starring Louise Fletcher) and the 1988 Academy Award-nominated sports drama Bull Durham. His later film credits include Ski Patrol (featuring Ray Walston), TV's Running Delilah (starring Kim Cattrall), and The Only Thrill (starring Sharon Lawrence).

Morrison worked with numerous other Star Trek sound department members – including Christopher Haire, Doug Davey and Bill Wistrom – on many of their non-Trek projects, particularly the films The Only Thrill and Family Plan.

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(This list is currently incomplete.)

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