Patricia Rose Duignan (born 3 April 1952; age 72), often credited as Rose Duignan, is a production staffer who, in the employ of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has worked as production supervisor on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and while in the employ of Paramount Pictures/CBS Studios as producer on several Star Trek documentaries and specials.
In 1990 Duignan joined Paramount Pictures/Television. For those companies she was (supervising) producer on the Star Trek documentaries and special features:
- Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special (1991)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes (1993)
- Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994)
- Star Trek: Voyager - Inside the New Adventure (1995)
- Inside Star Trek - The Real Story (1998)
- TNG Season 7 DVD – special feature: "Starfleet Moments & Memories Year Seven" (2002); the special features staff was only credited in this special feature on the last DVD season box for Star Trek: The Next Generation, but it is safe to assume that they were also responsible for all such features included on the six previous releases.
- DS9 Season 7 DVD – special feature: "The Last Goodbyes" (2003); the special features staff was only credited in this special feature on the last DVD season box for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but it is safe to assume that they were also responsible for all such features included on the six previous releases.
- VOY Season 7 DVD – special feature: "Braving the Unknown" (2004); the special features staff was only credited in this special feature on the last DVD season box for Star Trek: Voyager, but it is safe to assume that they were also responsible for all such features included on the six previous releases.
- TNG Complete Series Boxset – special features bonus-disc (2007):
- "The Next Generation's Impact: 20 Years Later"
- "The Next Generation's Legacy: 2007"
- "Star Trek Visual Effects Magic: A Roundtable Discussion"
- Aside from these specific items, she has served as supervising producer on most of the special features produced for the 2001-2005 "Special Edition" DVD releases of nine of the first ten Star Trek films (Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director's Edition being the exception), in conjuncture with special feature Director Donald R. Beck and Producer Stephen R. Wolcott, her most frequent collaborators for Star Trek in that period of time.
Together with free-lance author Mark Cotta Vaz, Duignan has co-authored the 1996 reference book, Industrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm.
Career[]
As a fresh twenty-three year old freelancer, Duignan started out in the motion picture industry when she was introduced to George Lucas by John Dykstra in 1975, landing her first job later on as a production staffer on the production of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977). She followed Dykstra when he left ILM to work on the pilot of Battlestar Galactica (1978) as production assistant. She, however, did not stay with Dykstra when he formed a company of his own, Apogee, Inc., during the production of Galactica. Instead, Duignan opted to return to ILM after her involvement with Galactica, where her first assignment was as production supervisor on The Wrath of Khan. She stayed on at ILM until 1987 with two more credits to her name as production supervisor/associate producer for Return of the Jedi (1983) and Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984). Most of her duties at the time, however, were taken up as member of the senior staff, among others as operations manager and as director of marketing.
From 1987 until 1990, she worked at ABC Television, producing documentaries and specials, among others The Storm Over Amerika (1987) and War and Remembrance: A Living History (1988), before joining Paramount Pictures/CBS Television in 1990. A non Star Trek documentary she worked upon during her Star Trek years, was Platforms and Polyester (2007). In between she, again for ABC, worked as producer on the television show Bump in the Night (1994-1995).
In 2008 she joined, as visual effects executive producer, the visual effects company Kerner Optical, split off from ILM three years earlier. In that capacity she has worked on productions like Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Avatar (all three 2009), Iron Man 2, Killers, The Last Airbender, The Other Guys (these four 2010), I Am Number Four, Priest, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Cowboys & Aliens, and Abduction (these six 2011), her last 2012 credits being Big Miracle, 21 Jump Street and Red Dawn.