Animation director who directed the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks and became the series' supervising director from its second season onwards.
Barry J. Kelly is an animation director who worked on Star Trek: Lower Decks from its beginning. As one of the episodic directors of the first season in 2020 he directed the opening episode, Second Contact, together with Moist Vessel, Much Ado About Boimler and the season finale, No Small Parts.
From the second season he was the supervising director of the series, taking over that post from Juno Lee and overseeing the work of the episode directors and the consistency of the show's look, which is modelled on the design of the Next Generation era.
He returned to episode direction for the fourth-season premiere Twovix in 2023, the Voyager homage that he co-directed with Jason Zurek.