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David "Dave" Quaschnick (26 October 19469 April 2018; age 71) was a makeup artist and hair stylist who worked for seventeen years on Star Trek. His work included Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager, as key make-up artist for the video game Star Trek: Borg, and as hair stylist for the video game Star Trek: Klingon.

Quashnick applied Mark Allen Shepherd's Morn makeup. [1]

For his work on Star Trek, Quashnick received the following Emmy Award win and nominations in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series/Outstanding Makeup for a Series:

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 Just One of the Guys (1985, together with Yolanda Toussieng), Warning Sign (1985), Class of 1999 (1990, starring Malcolm McDowell and with make-up artists Rick Stratton, Rob Burman, and Barney Burman), Arachnophobia (1990), Bonanza: Under Attack (1995, starring Leonard Nimoy and with hair stylist Jo Ann Phillips), and Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995).

He later did makeup for the ER episodes "Tell ME Where It Hurts" (2002, with Tzi Ma, Michelle C. Bonilla, and Kay E. Kuter) and "Believe the Unseen" (2008, with Scott Grimes, Charles Esten, Michael Buchman Silver, and Michelle C. Bonilla), 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.

Quasnick died peacefully at home in Grants Pass, Oregon. [2](X)

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