Fresh off its triple win at the Saturn Awards, the second season of Star Trek: Discovery continues its success with the acquisition of the very first Emmy Award for the series.
Announced last night at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, the artistic team behind Commander Saru, Commander Nhan, Lieutenants Spock, Detmer, Airam — and plenty more alien creatures from the Discovery world — nabbed the award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, beating out competitors like Game of Thrones and the much-celebrated Chernobyl to bring home the gold.
The winning team included special makeup department heads Glenn Hetrick and James MacKinnon, special makeup effects artists Hugo Villasenor, Rocky Faulkner, Chris Bridges, Nicola Bendry, and prosthetic designers Mike O’Brien and Neville Page.
The team won for their work on “If Memory Serves,” the standout return of the Talosians — and the disfigured Vina — as well as Star Trek alien races like Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites, along with the aliens regularly seen among the Discovery crew.
The last Star Trek production to win an Emmy went to the crew behind Star Trek: Enterprise‘s visual effects back on 2004, along with composer Velton Ray Bunch who took the trophy home that year for his accompanying score for the episode “Similitude.”
Believe it or not, the last time Trek won an Emmy for makeup work was for the infamous Star Trek: Voyager episode “Threshold,” all the way back in 1996, which featured prosthetic moments like Tom Paris spitting out his own tongue while ‘de-evolving’ into a lizard-like creature.
Discovery was also nominated for, but did not win, awards in the categories of Outstanding Sound Editing (winner: Chernobyl), Outstanding Special Visual Effects (winner: Game of Thrones), and Outstanding Title Design (winner: Game of Thrones).
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