Erin Palmer is an electrician and lighting technician who worked as rigging electric on the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, as well as the first and second seasons of Star Trek: Short Treks.
Palmer worked as set decorator on the science fiction drama The Limb Salesman (2004) and as set decorator and set dresser on the short film The Human Kazoo (2004). Further credits in the art department and prop and model maker include The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), District 9 (2009), The Lovely Bones (2009), Avatar (2009, with Zoë Saldana, Scott Lawrence, Peter Mensah, Jahnel Curfman, Ilram Choi, Lisa Roumain, Debra Wilson, and T.J. Storm), and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010).
Also in 2004, Palmer started to work in the camera and electrical department. She was a grip on the short drama Peep (2004), the television pilot Spy Academy (2004), the short drama Headhunter (2004), Assault on Precinct 13 (2005, with Aisha Hinds, Al Vrkljan, and Titus Welliver), the reality show Gospel Challenge (2006), Save the Last Dance 2 (2006), and the short action film Split City (2007).
Further credits as electrician and lighting technician include Mayday (2005), Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005, with Damon Runyan), The Sentinel (2006, with Conrad Coates), Earthstorm (2006, with Conrad Coates), Citizen Duane (2006), the short comedy Bonded Pairs (2007), and Beautiful People (2005), The Path to 9/11 (2006, with Wendy Crewson, Stephen Root, William Sadler, Terry Serpico, Robert Verlaque, and Penny Johnson Jerald), Pointless (2012), Incorporated (2016, co-executive produced by Frank Siracusa), Reign (2017, produced by Thom J. Pretak), The Kennedys After Camelot (2017, produced by Kevin Lafferty), Designated Survivor (2017, with Zoe McLellan and Virginia Madsen), Suits (2017, with Jay Harrington, Leslie Hope, and Ray Proscia), and Alias Grace (2017).
Palmer worked as set production assistant to the daily assistant directors on episodes of Suits (2016, with John Pyper-Ferguson, Patrick Fischler, Neal McDonough, and Claire Rankin), Dino Dana (2017, with Bill Cobbs), and Alias Grace (2017) and as assistant director on five episodes of Taken (2017).
More recent credits as lighting technician and rigging electric include He's Out There (2018) and The Handmaid's Tale (2018, with John Carroll Lynch), Taken (2018), Condor (2018), Titans (2018, created, written, and executive produced by Akiva Goldsman), and The Umbrella Academy}} (2019, produced by Kevin Lafferty).