Dan Curry
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Dan Curry was a senior member of the special effects team and the visual effects supervisor of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. Curry was also the second unit director for all of the Star Trek spinoffs.
For Deep Space Nine's Season 6, he helped designed the starship USS Curry, which was named for him. He also developed the Klingon fighting technique, Mok'bara and the famous Klingon weapon, the bat'leth. He also appeared as the image of Dekon Elig in DS9: "Babel" and Ches'sarro Seeto in DS9: "Necessary Evil".
Curry painted the cover for DC Comics TOS Special 2, released in late 1994, portraying the USS Enterprise-A and the USS Defiant.
Curry has won seven Emmy Awards for his work on Star Trek, and has been nominated an additional twelve times.
In 2007, Curry worked as visual effects consultant for the fan-made internet series Star Trek: New Voyages episode "World Enough and Time", which features fellow Star Trek alumni George Takei, Grace Lee Whitney, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, John Carrigan, James Cawley, Jeffery Quinn, writer and director Marc Scott Zicree, writer Michael Reaves, Doug Drexler, Iain McCaig, James Van Over, Michael Okuda, Daren Dochterman, Pierre Drolet, Sam Mendoza, Ronald B. Moore, Lee Stringer, Gregory Jein, Philip Kim, Leslie Hoffman, and Tom Morga.
More recently, Curry worked as visual effects coordinator on the fantasy horror series Moonlight (2007-2008) and the comedy series Chuck (2008, co-starring Bonita Friedericy and produced and occasionally directed by Voyager cast member Robert Duncan McNeill).
[edit] Background
- There is a nineteen-minute interview with Dan Curry on the TNG Season 6 DVD disc 7 entitled "Dan Curry Profile". In the interview, he talks about how some of the props were conceived and how his experience with martial arts informed much of the Klingon style of battle.
[edit] External links
- DanCurryGallery.com - official site
- Dan Curry at Wikipedia
- Dan Curry at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Dan Curry
