Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock and Conner Trinneer are all in the running for the 28th annual Saturn Awards, as is the show Enterprise itself and the DVD release of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, which presents the Saturns to honor genre TV and movie fare usually overlooked by mainstream awards, has bestowed the fifth installment of the Star Trek franchise with a nomination for Best Network Television Series. Enterprise will be competing with sister UPN show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, along with Angel, Dark Angel, Smallville and The X-Files.

Bakula is honored for his portrayal as Captain Jonathan Archer with a nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series. Blalock is up for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series for her turn as T'Pol, and Trinneer is recognized for his role as "Trip" Tucker in the category of Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series.

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director's Edition," the reinvention of the first Star Trek movie by director Robert Wise, is nominated in one of three DVD-related categories, namely DVD Classic Film Release. Its competition includes similar releases for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" and "Superman: The Movie."

Numerous other Star Trek alumni are also in contention for Saturns. Nominations in the motion picture categories include Fionnula Flanagan for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs. Mills in "The Others." Flanagan played Dr. Julianna Soong Tainer, Data's "mother," in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Inheritance," and also Enina Tandro in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Dax."

Greg Cannom is nominated in the Best Make-up category for his work in "Hannibal." Cannom is credited with creating the "Jackal Mastiff" (or "special alien dog makeup") in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." He also worked on "A Beautiful Mind," for which he has an Oscar nomination this year (see related story here). Competing with Cannom for the Saturn is Camille Calvet-Suftin, who was a makeup artist on "Star Trek: First Contact" and on ST:DS9, for working on "Vanilla Sky."

The Best Special Effects category is loaded with Star Trek alumni, including several other Oscar contenders. They include Jim Rygiel as one of the four nominees for "Lord of the Rings" — he was visual effects supervisor for "Star Trek: Insurrection." Scott Farrar and Michael Lantieri were among those recognized for "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" — Farrar did visual effects on "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" and "ST VI"; Lantieri contributed to the special effects on "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home."

Robert Legato, who was passed over for a well-deserved Oscar nomination, is also competing in the Saturn's Special Effects category for his work on "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Legato did visual effects work on TNG and DS9, and he also directed three episodes from those two series. "Jurassic Park III" is represented on this list by Donald R. Elliott, who did special effects on "ST IV." And "The Mummy Returns" has among its nominees John Andrew Berton, Jr., who was a computer graphics animator on "ST VI."

Nominated for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series is Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda produced by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.

A special honor will be conferred upon Sherry Lansing, chairman of Paramount Pictures, who will receive the Dr. Donald A. Reed Award — named after the founder of the academy — for her contributions as a producer and studio executive to the arts and sciences of feature filmmaking. As the head of Paramount's movie division, Lansing is the ultimate authority over the Star Trek feature films.

The 28th annual Saturn Awards will be presented in mid-June in Century City, California.

If Blalock wins in her category, it will be the second year in a row a Star Trek actress has done so. Last year Jeri Ryan took the Best Supporting TV Actress trophy for playing — you guessed it — Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager. Out of numerous other nominations Star Trek TV shows have earned over the years, Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway) won for Best Genre TV Actress in 1998, and Star Trek: The Next Generation won Best Genre Television Series in 1989 and 1991.

"The Motion Picture," upon its original theatrical release, won a Saturn in 1980 for Best Special Effects. The other movies have brought home several Saturns over the years, including Best Science Fiction Film for "ST VI" in 1993.

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