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Kris Krosskove (born 6 September 1954; age 69) is a cinematographer and camera operator who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He began working on Star Trek in the sixth season of The Next Generation, as the camera operator of cinematographer Jonathan West, and followed him to Deep Space Nine, where he and West worked from the third sseason onwards. He also served as substitute director of photography when West was directing the actual episode. Krosskove also worked as steadicam operator on the Star Trek: Picard third season episode "The Next Generation".
Krosskove's motion picture credits include working as a dolly grip on Halloween II (1981) and The Thing (1982), as an additional assistant camera on Back to the Future Part II (1989, starring Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson) and as an additional camera operator on The Flintstones (1994). He was also the first assistant cameraman on Dick Tracy (1989, featuring Colm Meaney, John Schuck, Ian Wolfe, Seymour Cassel, Hamilton Camp, Chuck Hicks, Mike Hagerty, Robert Costanzo, Ed McCready, Bert Remsen, Walker Edmiston and Michael J. Pollard).
Since the end of Deep Space Nine, he has worked on Charmed as cinematographer and camera operator, again with Jonathan West. In 2000, he worked with West, as well as Deep Space Nine actress Leslie Ackerman, on the movie What's Eating You?. Also in 2000 he worked as camera operator on Jonathan Frakes' Star Trek spoof Star Patrol!.
In 2007 he acted as director of photography on the feature film Reach for Me, which was directed by Trek director and actor LeVar Burton. Notably, the film was the first one to be shot in the 4K Digital Cinema format. He was camera operator and director of photography on the remake television series Knight Rider (2008-2009) and camera operator on several big budget Hollywood films.
These include Piranha 3D (2010, with Christopher Lloyd, Adam Scott, Dina Meyer, and Bonnie Morgan), The Mechanic (2011), Horrible Bosses (2011, with Brian George), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014, with Chris Pine, Jonathan Banks, Sam Richardson, Lennon Parham, and Bill Blair), The Last Witch Hunter (2015, with Bonnie Morgan), Ad Astra (2019, with Freda Foh Shen and Greg Bryk), and Thunder Force (2021), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, starring Chris Pine, with Tom Morello), as well as Iron Man 2 (2010, with Stan Lee), Green Lantern (2011, with Gattlin Griffith, Salome Jens, and Clancy Brown), The Avengers (2012, starring Chris Hemsworth, with Kenneth Tigar and Stan Lee), and Justice League (2017).
Star Trek credits[]
- TNG:
- "New Ground" – Camera Operator – "A" Camera (uncredited, Season 5)
- "Descent" – Camera Operator (uncredited, Season 6)
- "Descent, Part II" – Camera Operator (Season 7)
- "Liaisons" – Camera Operator
- "Interface" – Camera Operator
- "Gambit, Part I" – Camera Operator
- "Gambit, Part II" – Camera Operator
- "Phantasms" – Camera Operator
- "Dark Page" – Camera Operator
- "Attached" – Camera Operator
- "Force of Nature" – Camera Operator
- "Inheritance" – Camera Operator
- "Parallels" – Camera Operator
- "The Pegasus" – Camera Operator
- "Homeward" – Camera Operator
- "Sub Rosa" – Camera Operator
- "Lower Decks" – Camera Operator
- "Thine Own Self" – Camera Operator
- "Masks" – Camera Operator
- "Eye of the Beholder" – Camera Operator
- "Genesis" – Camera Operator
- "Journey's End" – Director of Photography
- "Firstborn" – Director of Photography
- "Bloodlines" – Camera Operator
- "Emergence" – Camera Operator
- "Preemptive Strike" – Camera Operator
- "All Good Things..." – Camera Operator
- DS9:
- "Rivals" – Camera Operator – "A" Camera (uncredited, Season 2)
- "The Search, Part I" – Camera Operator (Season 3)
- "The Search, Part II" – Camera Operator
- "The House of Quark" – Camera Operator
- "Equilibrium" – Camera Operator
- "Second Skin" – Camera Operator
- "The Abandoned" – Camera Operator
- "Civil Defense" – Camera Operator
- "Meridian" – Camera Operator
- "Defiant" – Camera Operator
- "Fascination" – Camera Operator
- "Life Support" – Camera Operator
- "Destiny" – Camera Operator
- "Prophet Motive" – Camera Operator
- "Visionary" – Camera Operator
- "Distant Voices" – Camera Operator
- "Improbable Cause" – Camera Operator
- "Through the Looking Glass" – Camera Operator
- "The Die is Cast" – Camera Operator
- "Explorers" – Camera Operator
- "Family Business" – Camera Operator
- "Shakaar" – Camera Operator
- "Facets" – Camera Operator
- "The Adversary" – Camera Operator
- "The Way of the Warrior" – Camera Operator (Season 4)
- "Hippocratic Oath" – Camera Operator
- "The Visitor" – Camera Operator
- "The Sword of Kahless" – Camera Operator
- "Our Man Bashir" – Camera Operator
- "Homefront" – Camera Operator
- "Paradise Lost" – Camera Operator
- "Crossfire" – Director of Photography
- "Return to Grace" – Director of Photography
- "Sons of Mogh" – Camera Operator
- "Bar Association" – Camera Operator
- "Accession" – Camera Operator
- "Rules of Engagement" – Camera Operator
- "Hard Time" – Director of Photography
- "Shattered Mirror" – Camera Operator
- "The Muse" – Camera Operator
- "For the Cause" – Camera Operator
- "The Quickening" – Camera Operator
- "To the Death" – Camera Operator
- "Body Parts" – Camera Operator
- "Broken Link" – Camera Operator
- "Apocalypse Rising" – Camera Operator (Season 5)
- "The Ship" – Camera Operator
- "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" – Camera Operator
- "Nor the Battle to the Strong" – Director of Photography
- "Trials and Tribble-ations" – Director of Photography
- "The Assignment" – Director of Photography
- "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." – Camera Operator
- "Things Past" – Camera Operator
- "The Ascent" – Director of Photography
- "Rapture" – Director of Photography
- "The Darkness and the Light" – Camera Operator
- "The Begotten" – Camera Operator
- "For the Uniform" – Camera Operator
- "In Purgatory's Shadow" – Camera Operator
- "By Inferno's Light" – Camera Operator
- "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" – Camera Operator
- "A Simple Investigation" – Camera Operator
- "Business as Usual" – Camera Operator
- "Ties of Blood and Water" – Camera Operator
- "Ferengi Love Songs" – Camera Operator
- "Soldiers of the Empire" – Camera Operator
- "Children of Time" – Camera Operator
- "Blaze of Glory" – Camera Operator
- "Empok Nor" – Camera Operator
- "In the Cards" – Camera Operator
- "Call to Arms" – Camera Operator
- "A Time to Stand" – Camera Operator (Season 6)
- "Sons and Daughters" – Camera Operator
- "Rocks and Shoals" – Camera Operator
- "Behind the Lines" – Camera Operator
- "Favor the Bold" – Camera Operator
- "Sacrifice of Angels" – Camera Operator
- "You Are Cordially Invited" – Camera Operator
- "Resurrection" – Camera Operator
- "Statistical Probabilities" – Camera Operator
- "The Magnificent Ferengi" – Camera Operator
- "Waltz" – Camera Operator
- "Who Mourns for Morn?" – Camera Operator
- "One Little Ship" – Camera Operator
- "Far Beyond the Stars" – Camera Operator
- "Honor Among Thieves" – Camera Operator
- "Change of Heart" – Director of Photography
- "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" – Director of Photography
- "Inquisition" – Camera Operator
- "In the Pale Moonlight" – Camera Operator
- "His Way" – Camera Operator
- "The Reckoning" – Camera Operator
- "Valiant" – Camera Operator
- "Profit and Lace" – Camera Operator
- "Time's Orphan" – Camera Operator
- "The Sound of Her Voice" – Camera Operator
- "Tears of the Prophets" – Camera Operator
- "Image in the Sand" – Camera Operator (Season 7)
- "Shadows and Symbols" – Camera Operator
- "Afterimage" – Camera Operator
- "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" – Director of Photography
- "Treachery, Faith and the Great River" – Camera Operator
- "Once More Unto the Breach" – Camera Operator
- "It's Only a Paper Moon" – Camera Operator
- "Prodigal Daughter" – Camera Operator
- "The Emperor's New Cloak" – Camera Operator
- "Field of Fire" – Camera Operator
- "Chimera" – Camera Operator
- "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" – Camera Operator
- "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" – Camera Operator
- "Extreme Measures" – Camera Operator
- "The Dogs of War" – Camera Operator