Smith received Emmy Award nominations for his work on three episodes of DS9: "Move Along Home" , "Armageddon Game" and "Improbable Cause" . Before Star Trek, Smith was a hair stylist on the long-running CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote. He received his first Emmy nomination for his work on an episode of this series entitled "When the Fat Lady Sings", which guest-starred Theodore Bikel. In addition, he worked on such TV movies as Attica (starring Henry Darrow and Anthony Zerbe) and Carly's Web (starring Daphne Ashbrook, K Callan, Gregory Itzin and Cyril O'Reilly).