Star Trek - Voyager

Visual Effects

1995 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects for a Series (Winner)

Star Trek: Voyager is a 1995-2001 American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor. Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is seventy-five years away at maximum warp speed, is lost in space and must travel across an unexplored region of the galaxy to find its way back home. On its way, the crew encounters different species they must deal with, but find that all their adventures only make them long for home.

CG was coming into play more and more on television shows during the mid 1990s, as a way to get a faster turnaround for the money spent and to make redoing shots far easier without the high expense of repeating an entire motion control miniature shot.

It was during the making of these Star Trek episodes – for The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise – that visual effects for television transitioned from the film, optical, motion control and miniature worlds to the use of computer-generated imagery and digital compositing.