#TIL the actor behind Lt. #Hemmer, #BruceHorak, is also legally #blind

The #Aenar is my favorite #StrangeNewWorlds character, bar none.

#AvuiVaigAprendre #HoyAprendí #StarTrek

Bruce Horak, the virtuoso legally blind actor, is leading a new Historical Canada Canadian Heritage Minute about the establishment of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB).

These short heritage dramatizations have been an institution since the 1980s and a couple of new ones continue to be added to the collection each year.

Horak best known onscreen for his main cast role as the Aenar Chief Engineer Hemmer in season one of Star Trek - Strange New Worlds. In addition to acting, Horak is a visual artist whose work shows his perspective from his limited ~10% vision in one eye.

CBC feature with short interview with Horak.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/edwin-baker-cnib-heritage-minute-calgary-canada-1.7407047

Here’s the Edwin A. Baker Heritage Minute with described video.

https://youtu.be/_SV-U2cL5fk?si=paNyF6_vqAA7kOS_

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Legally blind actor and visual artist Bruce Horak is making a limited series of Hemmer portrait paintings in what he calls “The Hemmer Project.”

These are available to be ordered from the artist himself. Info is on his Instagram.

Here’s a week of Hemmers!

https://www.instagram.com/brucehorak/p/C7bt6b3AOD-/

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#StarTrek #SNW #Hemmer #BruceHorak #BlindArtist #VisualArts #Aenar

Enterprise, Season 4 📺

#StarTrek #Enterprise #StarTrekEnterprise #Vulcans #Andorians #Tellarites #Klingons #Aenar #Romulans #Augments

To Hemmer, the Best #Aenar Wizard in #StarTrek.

#Andorian #Starfleet #Federation #scifi #tv