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Dennis Hoerter in 2002
Dennis Hoerter was an employee of Image G, during the period that company was involved with the Star Trek television productions. Before joining Image G, shortly after that company was founded in 1985, Hoerter worked in the motion picture business as a carpenter and set constructor on productions like To Live and Die in L.A. (1985).
Image G, a company specialized in motion control photography, hired Hoerter as property master and as such Hoerter was responsible for all aspects of handling the physical studio models for use in filming and looking after the models when they were not in use. His responsibilities apparently also entailed chasing off burglars as his boss Tom Barron remembered, "We had an unsecure location in Hollywood that could be robbed. A guy walked in once, grabbed a TV, and walked up the alley with it. Dennis chased him, and he got on a bus, and the bus driver defended him; he didn't want a squabble, so he let the guy just take the TV on the bus!". Hoerter was already in the employment of Image G, when that company was contracted in 1987 to handle the motion control photography for the televised Star Trek franchise and has remained in their employment for as long as the company has been used for Trek. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 63) Though he has been credited on IMDb as "motion control technician" for one episode only, "Conundrum", he has fulfilled that function for the entirety of:
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (for which he is also credited as prop maker)
- Star Trek: Voyager (until season four, when motion control photography was abandoned in favor of CGI)
Hoerter looking after the Star Trek studio models
Apart from handling and taking care of the studio models, Hoerter also occasionally lent a hand in constructing props and specialty models such as the breakaway model of the original Borg cube. (TNG Season 4 DVD, "New Life and New Civilizations–The Best of Both Worlds"-special)
Hoerter was part of the team which won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects in 1992 for "Conundrum", shared with Robert Legato, David Takemura, Gary Hutzel, Patrick Clancey, Adrian Hurley, Adam Howard, and Don Lee and the team which received an Emmy Award nomination in the same category in 1996 for the Deep Space Nine episode "The Way of the Warrior", shared with Joshua Cushner, Judy Elkins, Steve Fong, Adam Howard, Gary Hutzel, Don Lee, Fredric Meininger, Glenn Neufeld, Scott Rader, Jim Rider, and Joshua D. Rose.
Between 2001 and 2006, after he was let go by Image G due to slow business, Hoerter worked in the same capacity for other effects companies including Digital Domain, for whom he worked (and was credited for) as a Miniature Rigger on the production of Star Trek Nemesis.
By 2007, Hoerter was back in the employment of Image G.
Star Trek interview
- TNG Season 5 DVD, "Image G, Shooting Elements"-special, disc 7, interviewed on 7 March 2002
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