Visual effects supervisor who led the effects work on Star Trek: Discovery and headed the studio's in-house team, carrying the same role over to Star Trek: Picard.
Jason Zimmerman is a visual effects supervisor who has overseen the digital effects of the modern Star Trek television series, leading the in-house visual effects team at CBS Studios.
On Star Trek: Discovery he supervised the starship battles, the spore drive jumps of the USS Discovery, alien worlds and digital creatures across the run of the series, working with a number of outside effects houses as well as the studio's own artists.
He returned in the same capacity for Star Trek: Picard, which premiered in 2020, where the effects team created La Sirena, the Borg Artifact and the synthetic attack on Mars. The effects work under his supervision earned the franchise several Emmy nominations.