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Within the Star Trek universe, Jefferies tubes and Captain Jefferies, designer of the NX-class starships, [10] are named in his honor. According to Jefferies, the Enterprise was Starfleet's 17th starship design and it was the first in the series, therefore the ship had the number "1701". This story is documented in one of his sketches.
Designer John Eaves took inspiration for the Scimitar from the bird-of-prey created for Star Trek III (1984)—a ship originally designed with Romulans in mind. [59] The Enterprise , created for Star Trek: First Contact (1996), was designed by Eaves and Herman Zimmerman to appear sleeker and faster than its Next Generation predecessor. [ 60 ]
This is a list of people who were producers, directors, designers and other production staff on the Star Trek television series and films. The Series column uses the following abbreviations: TOS – The Original Series; PII – Phase II; TNG – The Next Generation; DS9 – Deep Space Nine; VOY – Voyager; ENT – Enterprise; DSC – Discovery
Star Trek novels and other media depict a second five-year mission under Kirk's command between the events of the first and second films. [1] Captain Spock commands the Enterprise, serving as a training ship, at the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in 2285. [1] Kirk assumes command to investigate problems at space station Regula 1.
Okuda then went on to write a number of Star Trek books with his wife, Denise. He continued working at Paramount Studios on multiple Star Trek series that followed The Next Generation, including as an art supervisor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and through to the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005. [4]
In 1986, he joined the staff of the then new series Star Trek: The Next Generation where he was initially hired to design the bridge of the new starship, the Enterprise-D. [2] However, after the show's producers saw a speculative Enterprise sketch that Probert had produced he was tasked with designing the starship's exterior as well. [2]
The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...
Born in Chicago, [1] [2] Franz Joseph had a successful 30-year career as an aerospace design engineer. [3] However, he is perhaps best known as the author and illustrator of Star Fleet Technical Manual (ISBN 0-345-34074-4), which, though fictional, represents an in-universe collection of factual documents, detailing the 23rd century Star Fleet of the United Federation of Planets, as well as ...