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.
[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 web site
- Dan Curry at Wikipedia
- Dan Curry at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Dan Curry
