Mitch Suskin Mitchell " Mitch " Alan Suskin ( born ) is an Emmy Award - winning ( VFX ) supervisor who worked on and , having left the franchise upon the conclusion of the latter series ' third season . He shared four Emmy Award nominations for his work on " Voyager " , winning two of them . He also shared a nomination for his work on the " Enterprise " episode . Prior to being hired on " Voyager " at Paramount Television in July 1996 near the end of that series ' second season , Suskin had worked at VFX companany Foundation Imaging , and it was Suskin who was instrumental in bringing his former employer to work on the VFX of that series , as he was the one who suggested the company to his superior Dan Curry , when the latter was looking to bring in another VFX company to work on the production . Replacing Michael Backauskas , who opted to leave the franchise , Suskin was paired up with firstly Arthur Codron and subsequently with Ron B . Moore to form one of the two alternating VFX teams for the remainder of " Voyager " . ( ) The first episode he worked upon independently as supervisor with Codron was " Voyager " s third season episode . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol 29 # 6 / 7 , p . 103 ) Suskin shortly returned to the " Star Trek " live - action franchise , when he joined the pre - production of in June 2016 as Visual Effects Supervisor , but left in February 2017 , before the new series premiered in September that year . His position was subsequently filled by former " Star Trek " collegue David Takemura and newcomer to the franchise , Ante Dekovic . Career outside " Star Trek " . Before his time on " Star Trek " and holding a degree as Bachelor of Arts ( B . A . ) , Fine Arts , Motion Picture & Television from the University of California , Los Angeles , Suskin started out his career in 1977 as an uncredited model maker for " Close Encounters of the Third Kind " ( 1977 ) and subsequently as such for Industrial Light & Magic ' s " 1941 " ( 1979 ) . As VFX coordinator he continued to work for them on " E . T . the Extra - Terrestrial " ( in which he had a cameo as medical assistant ) and " Poltergeist " ( both 1982 ) , and as visual effects supervisor on " Cocoon " ( 1985 ) , " Joe Versus the Volcano " ( 1990 ) , and the 1984 film " Splash " . He was a concept artist for the creature effects of the hit 1987 film , " Predator " . Suskin was a VFX supervisor on the popular science fiction series " Babylon 5 " at Foundation Imaging during its first two seasons ( 1994 - 1995 ) , and subsequently a digital compositing artist at Flat Earth VFX for another popular contemporary production , the fantasay series " Xena : Warrior Princess " , before joining the crew of " Voyager " . After " Star Trek " , he later became the visual effects supervisor for the ABC series " Lost " ( co - created by J . J . Abrams and Damon Lindelof ) and the NBC series " Surface " . His work on the latter series garnered him an Emmy nomination , while his work on " Lost " earned him not only two Emmy nominations , one of which he won , but two Visual Effects Society Awards nominations as well , also winning one of them . More recently , Suskin joined many former " Star Trek " VFX colleagues at Pixomondo Visual Effects ( an international VFX house , founded in 2001 ) in 2010 , continuing to work as a VFX supervisor on television productions such as , " Hawaii Five - O " ( 2011 ) , " BlackBoxTV " and " Hitting the Cycle " ( both 2012 ) , as well as on the motion picture " Mission Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol " ( 2011 ) . Suskin left Pixomondo in 2012 to continue his career as a free - lancer . " Star Trek " Emmy Awards . Suskin received the following Emmy Award win and nominations in the category " Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series " :