Bob Sordal

Bob Sordal , also miscredited as Bob Sorbel, served as a Key Grip on , and later as First Company Grip on from the start of the third season through , the second episode of the sixth. He then moved on to , while Steve Gausche replaced him on The Next Generation. After two seasons on Deep Space Nine, Sordal moved to and Gausche to Deep Space Nine. Sordal only worked on the first season of Voyager before retiring from the business.
A Captain appears on the dedication plaque of the in the episode and on a list of Starbase 32 personnel in the episode , as well as Sordal-Palka Excavation in , were named after him.
Before signing onto The Next Generation in , Sordal had worked as a grip on feature films for almost three decades. One of his earliest films was (1960; with Frank Overton), a contribution noted in the Chattanooga Daily Times, 8 November 1959, pg 16. Over a decade and a half later, he worked on the film (1976; with René Auberjonois, Ed Lauter, and Garry Walberg). Sordal's subsequent credits include (1978, starring Jonathan Banks, David Opatoshu, Gail Strickland, and Anthony Zerbe), The Competition (1980, featuring James B. Sikking), Body Heat (1981), (1981), Young Doctors in Love (1982, starring Michael McKean and Saul Rubinek and featuring Ed Begley, Jr., Charlie Brill, Hamilton Camp, and Deborah Lacey), (1984, featuring Richard Libertini), The Man with One Red Show (1985, featuring Gerrit Graham, David L. Lander, and David Ogden Stiers), Midnight Run (1988), (1988, featuring Tony Jay and Suzie Plakson), and (1989, featuring Harris Yulin, Aaron Lustig, and Christopher Neame).
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** Season 3 (26 episodes)
** Season 4 (26 episodes)
** Season 5 (26 episodes)
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