Edward L. Williams

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Edward "Eddie" L. Williams worked in the visual effects department of three of the Star Trek spin-off series. He began in 1993 as a Visual Effects Associate at the start of Star Trek: The Next Generation's sixth season. (Cinefantastique, Vol 23,#5, p. 62) By the end of the seventh season, he was alternating between Visual Effects Associate and Visual Effects Coordinator. He was also an uncredited visual effects coordinator on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first season episode "Emissary". For the Star Trek: Voyager first season episode "Caretaker", Williams shared an Emmy Award in 1995 in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement – Special Visual Effects, shared with Dan Curry, David Stipes, Joe Bauer, Michael Backauskas, Scott Rader, Don Greenberg, Adam Howard, Don Lee, Robert Stromberg, John F.K. Parenteau, Joshua D. Rose, and Joshua Cushner

After The Next Generation wrapped production in 1994, Williams joined Deep Space Nine as Visual Effects Series Coordinator, beginning with the third season episode "The Die is Cast". He held this position on the series until at least the end of the sixth season, sometimes filling in as an episode's Visual Effects Coordinator throughout the fourth season. During his time on Deep Space Nine, he was simultaneously working as Visual Effects Series Coordinator on Star Trek: Voyager's first and second seasons. He occasionally served as Visual Effects Supervisor for both series.

In addition, Williams was the Visual Effects Supervisor for the video game Star Trek: Borg.

Career outside Star Trek

Outside of Star Trek, Williams also did miniature design work for War and Remembrance (1988). He and his fellow staff members in the effects department won an Emmy Award in 1989 in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects for that production. Williams' other credits include Visual Effects Production Supervisor on The Devil's Advocate (1997, working with Richard Greenberg and Adam Howard), Visual Effects Producer on Live from Baghdad (2002, working with Thomas Mahoney) and Mayday (2005) and Visual Effects Supervisor for The Pentagon Papers (2003, working with Tom Mahoney and Scott Rader) and See Arnold Run (2005).

Star Trek credits

• TNG:
  • Season 6 – Visual Effects Associate (26 episodes)
  • "Descent, Part II" – Visual Effects Associate (Season 7)
  • "Liaisons" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Interface" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Gambit, Part I" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Gambit, Part II" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Phantasms" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Dark Page" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Attached" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Force of Nature" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Inheritance" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Parallels" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "The Pegasus" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Homeward" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Sub Rosa" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Lower Decks" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Thine Own Self" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Masks" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Eye of the Beholder" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Genesis" – Visual Effects Coordinator
  • "Journey's End" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Firstborn" – Visual Effects Coordinator
  • "Bloodlines" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "Emergence" – Visual Effects Coordinator
  • "Preemptive Strike" – Visual Effects Associate
  • "All Good Things..." – Visual Effects Coordinator

External link

• Edward L. Williams at the Internet Movie Database