The Star Trek franchise scored a total of four nominations in the 30th Annual Saturn Awards, announced yesterday by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in partnership with Cinescape Magazine.

Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock and Star Trek: Enterprise are all three-for-three with Saturn nominations. Since the show began, it has been nominated every year for Best Network Television Series, Bakula for Best Actor in a Television Series, and Blalock for Best Supporting Actress in TV.

Blalock won two Saturn awards in 2002 after only her first season as "T'Pol", namely Best Supporting TV Actress and a special "Faces of the Future" award (related story). Unfortunately, Connor Trinneer, who has been nominated the last two years for Best TV Supporting Actor, was not on the list this time.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also rang up a nomination for Best DVD Television Release for the collective seven seasons of box sets released throughout 2003. Last year that category was won by the similar DVD release of Star Trek: The Next Generation (related story).

The Saturn Awards will be presented on May 5. For complete information about this year's nominations, follow the links at the bottom of the page.

Quite a few Star Trek alumni are also in contention in various categories. Kristanna Loken — "Malia" in "Favorite Son" (Star Trek: Voyager) — is nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Movie) for her lusciously evil turn as the Terminatrix in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." John Glover — "Verad" in " Invasive Procedures" (ST:DS9) — is up for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series for his evil turn as Lionel Luther in Smallville.

Bryan Singer, Patrick Stewart's director on "X2: X-Men United," is contending for Best Director. He counts as a Trek alum because he appeared in uniform on the Enterprise-E bridge in "Star Trek Nemesis." Jerry Goldsmith, who has scored many a Trek theme over the years including "Nemesis," is nominated for Best Music for "Looney Tunes: Back in Action."

For Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series, nominees include Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda executive produced by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, along with The Dead Zone produced by Michael Piller and Shawn Piller, Dead Like Me produced by Bryan Fuller, and Carnivale produced by Ronald D. Moore. Moore's "Battlestar Galactica" miniseries was also tapped for Best Television Presentation.

In Best Makeup (Movie), nominees include Jeff Dawn ("Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier") for "Terminator 3," and Ve Neill ("Star Trek: The Motion Picture") for "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl."

Listed under Best Special Effects (Movie) are a legion of Trek alums: Richard Hollander ("ST IV," "Star Trek: Insurrection") for "X2"; John Gaeta ("ST V") and George Murphy ("Star Trek: First Contact") for "The Matrix Revolutions"; John Knoll ("Star Trek Generations," "ST:FC") and Terry D. Frazee (the last five movies) for "Pirates of the Caribbean"; Ed Hirsch ("Generations," "ST IV") and Michael Lantieri ("ST IV") for "The Hulk"; and finally, Jim Rygiel ("Insurrection") and Joe Letteri ("Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country") for "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

Though the Saturns were created to honor artists in genre TV and movie fare who are normally overlooked by mainstream awards, many of these people also earned Oscar nominations this year (related story).