Digital Muse Digital Muse was a contracted ( VFX ) production house that was responsible for creating the computer - generated , or digital , effects , commonly abbreviated to CGI ( Computer - Generated Imagery ) , and computer animation , used a numerous episodes for the season four through seven run of , and the season two through six run of . It was also contracted to do the special effects for the teaser trailer of . John Gross and John Parenteau shared management of the company . Based in Santa Monica , California , the company was founded by Gross and John Parenteau in October 1995 , after they had acquired the inventory of their former employer Amblin Imaging , which had closed its doors shortly before . Continuing for the franchise where Amblin , which had been providing CGI for " Voyager " s first season , had left off , the new company entered into a joint venture with VisionArt Design & Animation , which had done the same for the first three seasons of " Deep Space Nine " , in order to serve their main client , " Star Trek " , more efficiently and operated both companies under the new name . ( ) During the run of " Deep Space Nine " s fourth and " Voyager " s second seasons , the new combination was effectively the sole regular supplier of CGI for the franchise . After Foundation Imaging was contracted by the franchise for " Voyager " from season three onward the following year , it was initially the intention was that the CGI workload for televised " Star Trek " was to be divided between Foundation for " Voyager " and Digital Muse for " Deep Space Nine " . In practice , however , the workload became such , especially in later seasons , that both companies were called upon to help each other out for specifically tasking episodes , resulting that both did CGI work for either series , the 1997 sixth season " Deep Space Nine " episode , , being both the pivotal as well as the prime example . ( " " , p . 501 ; ; " et al . " ) Parenteau left the company in 1999 to help from a digital effects division for Hollywood Digital West . Digital Muse closed down in February 2000 after a decision to sell a portion of the company to an internet company in order to raise capital backfired , resulting in a hostile take - over of the company . Gross opted to start over , leaving the company to found Eden FX with Digital Magic ' s Mark F . Miller . Digital Muse shut down the following week . The company was gearing up to start work on the seventh season of " Voyager " at the time ; fortunately , however , Paramount Television owned the computer models which Digital Muse created , so Gross and his staff , most of whom following Gross to the new company , were able to simply copy the models onto their server at Eden FX , allowing the studio to continue their work with the franchise . Many of the employees at Digital Muse also quit Muse to join Eden FX . It was VisionArt however , that fully fell victim to the circumstance , ending its existence with none of its employees moving over . In its short lifetime , Digital Muse also did effects work for such films as " The Devil ' s Advocate " , " Spawn " ( both 1997 ) , and " Battlefield Earth " ( 2000 ) as well as television shows such as " Sliders " and .