Space—the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Forgotten Trek is a tribute to those forgotten heroes who created Star Trek—from the Enterprise herself to the uniforms worn by her crew. This is a shrine to the men and women who made Star Trek possible and took good care of it for decades, dedicated to people like Matt Jefferies, who designed the original Enterprise and set the guidelines for the design of starships for decades to come, to Wah Ming Chang, who designed most of the alien starships on the original series, to William Ware Theiss, who created the Starfleet uniforms of the original series as well as those of The Next Generation, to Frederick Phillips, who was in charge of the makeup on the original series as well as on The Motion Picture, to Robert Fletcher, who created the look of every alien that appeared on the first feature film, to Mike Minor, who would have designed most of the sets for the Star Trek series that never was and contributed heavily to the look of The Motion Picture, to Andrew Probert, who was responsible for the redesign of the Enterprise for The Motion Picture and went on to work for The Next Generation almost a decade later for which he designed everything from the Enterprise herself to nearly all interior sets and alien starships seen in its first season, and to those numerous others not mentioned—without all these people, Gene Roddenberry's great vision would, and could not have come true. Here is to them, forgotten heroes of Trek; we can only hope that their vision will live on. Please take your time to browse through these pages, and remember the stories of those who made it so . . .