Maaninka first worked with the Star Trek franchise was as a concept modeler and designer on 2009's Star Trek. For 2016's Star Trek Beyond, Maaninka was a lead digital modeller, working with the Double Negative studio. Along with Rhys Salcombe, Daniel Nicholson, and Chris Elmer, he was nominated for a VES Award for Outstanding Model in a Photoreal project. This article is a stub relating to real-world information such as a performer, author, novel, magazine, or other production material. You can help Memory Alpha by fixing it.