Category: The Original Series
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Creating the Original Enterprise’s Shuttlebay
Matt Jefferies had anticipated the need for a “hangar deck” when he designed the Enterprise.
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Creating the Romulan Bird of Prey
Wah Ming Chan designed and built the first Romulan starship in just two weeks’ time.
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Creating Star Trek’s First Alien: Spock
Creating Spock’s pointed ears involved a lot of work — and a lot of pain for Leonard Nimoy.
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William Ware Theiss: A Stitch in Time
Scraps of cloth, when put together, became the legendary Theiss collection, the visually distinct portrait of Strar Trek that remains to this day.
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Designing the First Enterprise Within
The standing sets of the original Star Trek series were largely designed by Matt Jefferies and all erected on Desilu Studios’ Stage 9.
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Designing the Klingon Battle Cruiser
The alien battle cruisers that Matt Jefferies had designed for the original series were reinvented for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
