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From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
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David "Dave" Quashnick is a make-up artist and hair stylist who worked seventeen years on Star Trek. His work includes the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, as key make-up artist in the video game Star Trek: Borg and as hair stylist in Star Trek: Klingon, both in 1996.
In 1995 he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series for the Deep Space Nine episode "Distant Voices", shared with artists Thomas E. Surprenant, Gilbert A. Mosko, Karen Westerfield, Michael Key, Scott Wheeler, Karen Iverson, Dean Gates, Dean Jones, Camille Calvet, and Michael Westmore.
Quashnick was also part of the team who received Emmy Award nominations for the The Next Generation episode "Genesis" in 1994, the Deep Space Nine episodes "Rules of Acquisition" in 1994, "The Visitor" in 1996, "Apocalypse Rising" in 1997, "Who Mourns for Morn?" in 1998, "The Dogs of War" in 1999, and the Star Trek: Voyager episodes "Ashes to Ashes" in 2000 and "The Void" in 2001.
In 1983 he was among the special effects team for the horror film One Dark Night, with Kevin Peter Hall. He has then worked as make-up artist on the comedy Just One of the Guys (1985, together with Yolanda Toussieng), the science fiction film Warning Sign (1985), the science fiction film Class of 1999 (1990, starring Malcolm McDowell and with make-up artists Rick Stratton, Rob Burman, and Barney Burman), the horror film Arachnophobia (1990), the television sequel Bonanza: Under Attack (1995, starring Leonard Nimoy and with hair stylist Joan Phillips), and the action film Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995).
More recently he did make-up for the ER episode Tell ME Where It Hurts (2002, with Tzi Ma, Michelle Bonilla, and Kay E. Kuter) and the documentary Creature People (2007) which is looking behind the cameras and shows the make-up process for J.G. Hertzlers character Martok in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Other interviewees on this documentary include Robert Picardo and the Star Trek artists Michael Westmore, Rick Stratton, Greg Cannom, Craig Reardon, Kevin Haney, and Rob Burman
