Let's hope that John Logan will have an opportunity to thank his agent, his manager and all the little people on Sunday as he vies for his first Academy Award®. Logan, whose word processor has been churning out the tenth Star Trek feature film (see related story here), is nominated for Best Original Screenplay along with his co-writers on the epic blockbuster "Gladiator," which has the most nominations of the night including Best Picture.

The 73rd Annual Academy Awards® takes place this Sunday, March 25, and will be broadcast on ABC starting with the pre-show "Oscar Countdown" at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time, with the ceremony itself starting at 5:30 (8:30 Eastern time). Among those presenting awards will be Ashley Judd, who appeared as Ensign Robin Lefler in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Darmok" and "The Game."

Another Enterprise-D crew member will be on the Internet to host a live, interactive webcast of the Oscar® ceremony. Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), a three-time emcee of the Academy Awards and an Oscar winner herself, will provide irreverent commentary on the gala event from the moment celebrities arrive on the red carpet to the awarding of Best Picture. The audio-only webcast will be featured exclusively at Whoopi.com and RealNetworks' Film.com, and will be viewable only via RealPlayer®. An e-mail address will be provided to send questions directly to Goldberg.

If Logan prevails Sunday, he will join the growing list of Star Trek personnel with Oscars on their mantels. Besides Goldberg, Louise Fletcher, Robert Wise, Jerry Goldsmith, John Dykstra and Michael Westmore are just a few of the names familiar to Star Trek fans who have been recognized by the Academy over the years for outstanding achievement in their fields.

In fact, the Star Trek films themselves have not bypassed Oscar recognition. While a statue has yet to find its way into Starfleet's trophy case, the franchise has been honored with a total of 10 nominations for four films, all in technical categories. The first movie, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," garnered three nominations in 1980 (the year after it was released): Best Art Direction/Set Direction (Harold Michelson, Linda DeScenna et al), Best Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith), and Best Visual Effects (Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Grant McCune, et al).

Seven years and three films later, "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" earned four nominations: Best Cinematography (Don Peterman), Best Original Score (Leonard Rosenman), Best Sound (Terry Porter, Dave Hudson, et al), and Best Sound Effects Editing (Mark Mangini).

In the 1992 contest, "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" had two nominations: Best Makeup (Michael Mills, Edward French, Richard Snell) and Best Sound Effects Editing (George Watters II, F Hudson Miller). And finally, in 1997, the brilliant work done by Michael Westmore, Scott Wheeler and Jake Garber on the Borg in "Star Trek: First Contact" was recognized with a nomination for Best Makeup.

While the movies themselves haven't won an Oscar, certain key players on those films are no stranger to the bald little man. Robert Wise, the director of "ST:TMP," has been recognized by the Academy several times in his illustrious career. He won Oscars as Best Director for "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965), both of which also won Best Picture. Wise was also the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1967, being honored for his entire body of work. He has been nominated three other times, going back to 1942 when he was up for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane." Wise is currently re-working "ST:TMP" for a special "Director's Edition" to be released on DVD (see related story here).

As mentioned above, Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra and their visual effects team including Grant McCune worked with Wise to bring the Enterprise to the big screen for the first time, and were nominated for their efforts. Dykstra and McCune were also part of the team that brought "Star Wars" to life in 1977, and for that they brought home the gold the following year. In addition, Dykstra and Trumbull have each earned a Scientific and Engineering Award.

Joining the "Star Wars" visual effects team on stage in 1978 was fellow wizard Richard Edlund. A decade earlier Edlund designed optical effects on the Original Series, including the Companion, the sparkly cloud that fell in love with Zefram Cochrane in "Metamorphosis." Edlund also won an Oscar for "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and has earned two Special Achievement Awards and two Scientific and Engineering Awards from the Academy.

Michael Westmore, currently makeup designer/supervisor on Star Trek: Voyager, has been to the Oscars four times and has come home with one statue for Best Makeup — he won in 1986 for "Mask." His other nominations beside "ST: FC" were for "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and "2010."

Fellow makeup artist Jeff Dawn is also on the winners' list. Dawn worked on "Star Trek IV" and "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," and got an Oscar in 1992 for "Terminator 2: Judgment Day."

Another Best Makeup award has gone to a crossover crew member: Doug Drexler was Scenic Artist for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as "Star Trek Generations," "ST: FC" and "Star Trek: Insurrection." But he was previously a makeup artist, which earned him an Oscar in 1991 for his work on "Dick Tracy."

Here's a trivia tidbit to impress your friends with: Of the nine Star Trek films produced to date, seven of them have soundtracks by Oscar-winning composers ("seven of nine" should be easy to remember, huh?). Leonard Rosenman, who composed the original score for "Star Trek IV" and got nominated for it, has received two Academy Awards: in 1976 for his music on Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon," and again the following year for "Bound for Glory." He's had a total of four nominations.

James Horner, who scored "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock," has been nominated seven times and won for the first time three years ago for the mega-blockbuster "Titanic." He took two Oscars, one for Best Original Dramatic Score and one for Best Song, the latter for writing the ubiquitous "My Heart Will Go On." Horner's other nominations include Best Dramatic Score for "Apollo 13" and "Aliens."

Jerry Goldsmith, whose melodies are perhaps the most familiar to the lobes of Star Trek fans, has been nominated a whopping 18 times. Thankfully out of all that he has won once — for Best Original Score on "The Omen." His other nominations include Best Original Score or Best Original Song for "Planet of the Apes" (the original 1968 version), "Poltergeist," "Chinatown" and "Patton," as well as "ST:TMP." Goldsmith's score from "TMP" became the theme song for Star Trek: The Next Generation, and he also composed the theme song for Star Trek: Voyager as well as the soundtracks for "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," "Star Trek: First Contact" and "Star Trek: Insurrection."

And then there are the actors who also bring prestige to the Star Trek universe with their award-winning ways. Whoopi Goldberg was still tending bar in Ten-Forward when she brought home an Oscar in 1991 for "Ghost." That was for Best Supporting Actress, but she was previously a nominee for Best Actress in 1986 for "The Color Purple." As noted above, Goldberg is also familiar to Oscar-watchers for emceeing the 1994, 1996 and 1999 Academy Award presentations, and became famous for her frequent movie-themed costume changes.

Louise Fletcher holds an Oscar for playing a part that was even more steely than DS9's Kai Winn — Nurse Ratched, the terrifyingly cold nemesis to Jack Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," for which she won Best Actress in 1976. Her acceptance speech is considered one of the most memorable moments in Oscar history, and is nominated in a poll at Oscar.com, where a video of the speech is available.

F. Murray Abraham played the rageful but ultimately tragic villain Ru'afo in "Star Trek: Insurrection," but prior to that he earned a well-deserved Best Actor Oscar in 1985 for his portrayal of the rageful and tragic Salieri in "Amadeus."

Joel Grey won Best Supporting Actor in 1973 for his famous duet with Liza Minnelli in the hit "Cabaret." More than two decades later he did a duet (so to speak) with Kate Mulgrew as Caylem in the Voyager episode "Resistance."

In a more recent Voyager episode, "Virtuoso," Paul Williams played Prelate Koru, leader of a society that had never heard music before. The irony must have been intentional, considering that Williams is the recipient of an Oscar for Best Music, Song. He won in 1977 for writing the lyrics for "Evergreen," the love theme from "A Star is Born," and has been nominated five other times in musical categories, most recently for "The Muppet Movie."

There are a few notable and deserving Star Trek actors who have been nominated for an Oscar but haven't won one yet. James Cromwell, who stepped into the sizeable shoes of Zefram Cochrane for "Star Trek: First Contact" (and has played various other parts in TNG and DS9), was nominated in 1996 as Best Supporting Actor for his role as Farmer Hoggett in "Babe." His co-star in "ST: FC," Alfre Woodard (Lily Sloane), herself was nominated in 1984 for Best Supporting Actress for "Cross Creek."

Paul Winfield got a Best Actor nomination in 1973 for his commanding role in "Sounder." Years later Winfield was commanding the U.S.S. Reliant as Captain Clark Terrell in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," and later still he commanded a Tamarian starship as the metaphorically-speaking Dathon in TNG's "Darmok."

In Star Trek's second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Sally Kellerman turned into a hot-eyed god as the mutated Dr. Elizabeth Dehner. In 1970 she turned into Hot Lips O'Houlihan for the seminal film "M*A*S*H," for which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress.

There are also many production personnel who have earned Oscar nominations but haven't brought a statuette home (yet). Nicholas Meyer, for example, who directed "Star Trek II" and "Star Trek VI" and also co-wrote "II," "IV" and "VI," was a contender for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1977 for "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution."

The composer of the original Star Trek theme, Alexander Courage, himself has two Oscar nominations (but no wins), for the "The Pleasure Seekers" in 1966 and "Doctor Dolittle" in 1968.

Another nominee of particular note is John A. Alonzo, who just passed away on March 13 (see related story here). Alonzo, the Director of Photography on "Generations," was recognized for his work on the classic "Chinatown" with a nomination for Best Cinematography.

Others honored by the motion picture academy but not yet mentioned here include the following: John M. Dwyer, who was Set Decorator on the Original Series and TNG as well as "ST IV," "ST V," "Generations," "First Contact" and "Insurrection," is an Oscar nominee. Richard H. Kline, Director of Photography on "ST:TMP," has gotten two nominations. Mickey S. Michaels, Set Decorator on "ST:VI" and the first season of DS9, also has two. Peter E. Berger, Editor on "ST IV", "ST V," "Generations" and "Insurrection," has one nomination. Craig Barron, who did matte painting and other visual effects work on five of the Star Trek films, has one. Jack T. Collis, Production Designer on "ST IV," has one.

Just like an Oscar recipient who gets cut off by the orchestra, we apologize if we've left anybody out.