Gerald Quist Gerald " J ( G ) erry " Alan Quist is a make - up artist who has worked under the auspices of make - up department head Michael Westmore on the first six seasons of and the feature film . Together with Westmore he created the headpiece for Armus in the TNG first season episode and on " Star Trek VI " , he worked as prosthetic makeup artist for Mark Lenard ' s Sarek . During his tenure on " The Next Generation " , Quist work as make - up artist earned him eight Emmy Award nominations , winning two of them . Career outside " Star Trek " . Starting out in the motion picture industry in the mid - 1980s , Quist worked as special effects make - up artist and make - up lab foreman on the science fiction horror film " Creature " ( 1985 , with Jill Rockow ) , the horror film " Re - Animator " ( 1985 , starring Jeffrey Combs ) , the horror film " Critters " ( 1986 ) and its sequel " Critters 2 : The Main Course " ( 1988 ) , the comic adaptation " Masters of the Universe " ( 1987 , with Michael Westmore , June Westmore , Todd McIntosh , and Michael Burnett ) , and the drama " Johnny Handsome " ( 1989 , with Michael Westmore , Ken Diaz , and Zoltan Elek ) . In addition to the ones he received for his work on " Star Trek " , Quist earned Emmy Award nominations for his work on the " Highway to Heaven " episode " I Was a Middle - Aged Werewolf " ( 1988 , shared with Hank Edds and Michael Westmore ) , the television drama " David " ( 1989 , shared with Michael Westmore ) , for the " American Playhouse " episode " Tru " ( 1993 ) , and for the television western " Buffalo Girls " ( 1995 , shared with Todd McIntosh ) . He won an Emmy Award for the " Quantum Leap " episode " The Leap Home : November 25 , 1969 " in 1991 , shared with Michael Mills and for the " Buffy the Vampire Slayer " episode " Surprise / Innocence " in 1999 , shared with Todd McIntosh , John Maldonado , Craig Reardon , Margie Latinopoulos , Dayne Johnson , Michael F . Blake , and Mark Shostrom . Further credits in the make - up department include the comedy " Sibling Rivalry " ( 1990 ) , the television thriller " Donor " ( 1990 ) , the horror comedy " Addams Family Values " ( 1993 ) , the western " Wyatt Earp " ( 1994 ) , the drama " Mr . Holland ' s Opus " ( 1995 ) , the comedy " Sgt . Bilko " ( 1996 ) , the thriller " Killer : A Journal of Murder " ( 1996 ) , the comedy " Breakfast of Champions " ( 1999 ) , the television drama " True West " ( 2002 ) , the thriller " Hostage " ( 2005 ) , the action comedy " The Dukes of Hazzard " ( 2005 ) , the family fantasy " The Santa Clause 3 : The Escape Clause " ( 2006 ) , and the action sequel " Live Free or Die Hard " ( 2007 ) . Quist worked on several projects as personal make - up artist for actor , including the action thriller " Last Man Standing " ( 1996 ) , the action thriller " The Jackal " ( 1997 ) , the thriller " Mercury Rising " ( 1998 ) , the drama " The Siege " ( 1998 ) , ' s mystery thriller " The Sixth Sense " ( 1999 ) , the comedy " The Story of Us " ( 1999 ) , the crime comedy " The Whole Nine Yards " ( 2000 ) , the fantasy comedy " The Kid " ( 2000 ) , the thriller " Unbreakable " ( 2000 ) , the crime comedy " Bandits " ( 2001 ) , the war drama " Hart ' s War " ( 2002 ) , the action thriller " Tears of the Sun " ( 2003 ) , the sequel " The Whole Ten Yards " ( 2004 ) , the comic adaptation " Sin City " ( 2005 ) , the drama " Alpha Dog " ( 2006 ) , the crime thriller " Lucky Number Slevin " ( 2006 ) , the drama " What Just Happened " ( 2008 ) , the action movie " RED " ( 2010 ) , its 2013 follow - up " RED 2 " and the thriller " Setup " ( 2011 ) . For another Willis movie , " A Good Day to Die Hard " ( 2013 ) , he served as makeup department head . More recently he worked as make - up department head on the action comedy " Tropic Thunder " ( 2008 , earning him a 2009 OFTA Film Award nomination ) , the television comedy " The Station " ( 2009 ) , and the action film " Fast & Furious " ( 2009 ) , as make - up artist for actress on the action thriller " Jonah Hex " ( 2010 ) , the science fiction movie " John Carter " ( 2012 ) , and as make - up artist for actor Sean Penn in " Gangster Squad " ( 2013 ) . More recently he found tenure as key makeup artist on the 2014 mini - television series " Olive Kitteridge " . Emmy Awards . Jerry Quist received the following Emmy Award wins and nominations as " Makeup Artist " , all in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series :