American visual effects supervisor (1955–2016) who coordinated effects on The Next Generation and then supervised them for all seven seasons of Deep Space Nine, including Trials and Tribble-ations.
Gary Hutzel was an American visual effects artist. He joined The Next Generation at its start as a visual effects coordinator and remained with the series for its first five seasons.
In 1993 he moved to Deep Space Nine as a visual effects supervisor and stayed for the whole run, overseeing alternate episodes. His work included the battle in The Way of the Warrior and the painstaking blending of new footage with 1967 film for Trials and Tribble-ations.
After Star Trek he became visual effects supervisor on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica for Ronald D. Moore, work that won him Emmy Awards. He died in 2016.