Steve Blalock

Steve Blalock is a stuntman and stunt coordinator who worked on several Star Trek series and . He started his Star Trek connection as stand-in for Leonard Nimoy on and and also performed stunts in these films. He later performed stunts in episodes of , , and as well as in the films and .
Blalock was among the stunt cast who won a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture for Star Trek in . He shared this award with Robert Alonzo, Daniel Arrias, Sala Baker, Ben Bray, Mark Chadwick, Ilram Choi, Zack Duhame, Peter Epstein, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Terry Jackson, Craig Jensen, Paul Lacovara, Rob Mars, Mike Massa, Heidi Moneymaker, Mike Mukatis, Courtney Munch, Kimberly Murphy, Chris Palermo, Jim Palmer, Eddie Perez, Dan Plum, Damion Poitier, Susan Purkhiser, Dennis Scott, Chris Torres, Webster Whinery, Jr., and Marcus Young.
Several of his costumes worn in Star Trek were later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay including the costumes from the episodes , , and . The latter one was also worn in and by Steve Rankin in . The operations division from and as well as the Maquis vest from "Worst Case Scenario" were also sold off on eBay. The vest was previously worn by John Franklyn-Robbins in . Two of his earlier costumes, a white and a red radiation suit, worn in Star Trek II and Star Trek III were also among the auctioned costumes. 
== Career ==
Blalock was a semi-pro soccer player before he and his wife Michelle Louise moved from Northern California to Santa Monica in 1978. He received his SAG card through the Extra's Guild in 1981 and attended Paul Stader's Stunt School in Santa Monica, California.
Among his earlier stunt work are (1981, with Mary Peters, Carol Daniels, and John Cade) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984, with John Cade, Corey Michael Eubanks, and Danny Rogers), both stunt coordinated by Terry James, and the television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1981).
In 1985, Blalock started to work for Stunt Coordinators Vince Deadrick, Jr. and Buddy Joe Hooker as stunt double for Richard Dean Anderson on the television series MacGyver. Besides doubling Anderson, he also had stunt acting parts on the series (1987-1990) where he worked with Bruce McGill and directors Cliff Bole and Charles Correll. He also worked as Anderson's stunt double on Michael Piller's (1995, co-starring John de Lancie) and (1996, with Ron Sarchian and coordinated by Vince Deadrick, Jr.). 
Blalock doubled in (1998-1999, working with Manny Perry, Henry Kingi, Jr., Joey Anaya, Dan Plum, Hiro Koda, Hugh Aodh O'Brien, Tim Rigby, and Charles Picerni), The Immortal (2000-2001, working with Dominic Keating), and The Bold and the Beautiful (2004 and 2006). Other actors he doubled for include Rick Aiello in (1993, coordinated by Hubie Kerns, Jr.), in (1997, coordinated by Phil Adams), in (2000, coordinated by Charles Picerni, Jr.), and in The Bold and the Beautiful (1997-2015), on (2004-2005) and Haunted (2002-2008), and in the episode "City on Fire" (2008, with Alina Andrei, Shawn Crowder, Bevin Kaye, Scott Leva, and Kortney Manns and coordinated by Wally Crowder).
He also appeared in the television action comedy Ring of the Musketeers (1992, with John Rhys-Davies, Corbin Bernsen, Richard E. Butler, Erik Cord, Catherine Coulson, Chris Doyle, Scott Jaeck, Loren Janes, Julius LeFlore, Marie Marshall, John Paragon, Branscombe Richmond, Jim Wilkey, Patricia Tallman, and Tom Morga), (1997, along with Mark Chadwick, Dennis Keiffer, Jean-Luc Martin, Jim Palmer, and Paul Sklar), (1998, with Anita Hart, Marjean Holden, and Cris Thomas-Palomino), (1999, with Mike Watson and coordinated by Allan Graf), and (2003, coordinated by Michael Cassidy).
Other stunt work includes (1986, coordinated by Bud Davis), (1986, with Greg Gault and Don Pulford), (1989, coordinated by Wally Crowder), (1993, with Gates McFadden), (1994, coordinated by Vince Deadrick, Jr.), (1994, coordinated by William Washington), (1994), (1994, with Joey Box and coordinated by Vince Deadrick, Jr.), (1995, coordinated by Ben Scott), (1995), (1995, coordinated by Allan Graf), (1996), (1997), (1997), Double Tap (1997, coordinated by Michael J. Sarna), (1998), (1998), (1998), (1998, coordinated by Bud Davis), (1999), and (2000, coordinated by Ron Stein).
Blalock also performed stunts in (2000, coordinated by Allan Graf), (2002, coordinated by Jeff Imada), (2003), (2004, coordinated by Rick Avery), the romance Raising Helen (2004, coordinated by Gary Combs), (2005), (2006, with Edward Conna, Shawn Crowder, Jeremy Fry, Mark Ginther, Rosine "Ace" Hatem, and Sonny Surowiec, and coordinated by Vince Deadrick, Jr.), (2006), (2006, coordinated by Bud Davis), (2010, with Jennifer Caputo, Craig Jensen, Paul Lacovara, J.J. Perry, and Ator Tamras and coordinated by Dennis Scott and Rob King), and episodes of Zoey 101 (2006, with Mike Cassidy and Vince Deadrick, Jr.) and Westworld (2016, coordinated by Mike Watson).
Among his work as stunt coordinator are (2008, with Katina Waters and co-stunt coordinator Joey Box) and episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful (2003 and 2005, with Thom Williams and Michael Cassidy).
More recently, Blalock worked as double for Lorenzo Lamas on the action drama BorderCross (2017, with Mykle McCoslin), as stunt double for on The Bold and the Beautiful (2018, with Oliver Keller and Tom McComas and coordinated by Mike Cassidy), and as additional stunt coordinator on the action series Shadow Wolves (2018, with Nick Hermz and Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom and stunt coordinator Clint Lilley).
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:USS Enterprise crewman 14, protective suit.jpg|Enterprise crewman
File:USS Enterprise return crewmember 12.jpg|Trainee crewman
File:Vulcan fal-tor-pan guard 2.jpg|Vulcan guard(uncredited)
File:Enterprise-D conn ensign, 2369.jpg|Enterprise-D ensign(uncredited)
File:Stunned engineer, 2370.jpg|Enterprise-D officer(uncredited)
File:Klingon assassin at Maranga IV 3.jpg|Klingon assassin(uncredited)
File:Cardassian spy 3, 2370.jpg|Cardassian soldier(uncredited)
File:Voyager Maquis ops crewmember, 2373.jpg|Voyager crewman(uncredited)
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File:Novan attacker.jpg|Novan(uncredited)
File:Coridanite rebel 001.jpg|Coridanite rebel(uncredited)
File:Zabel.jpg|Zabel(uncredited)
File:Enolian Pilot.jpg|Enolian pilot(uncredited)
File:Alien mine guard 1.jpg|Alien mine guard(uncredited)
File:Seleya crewmember 3.jpg|Vulcan Seleya crewmember(uncredited)
File:Triannon boarding party 5.jpg|Triannon(uncredited)
File:Vulcan captain mirror universe 2063 2.jpg|Mirror universe Vulcan captain(uncredited)
File:Rigel X alien criminal 4.jpg|Alien criminal(uncredited)
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