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18 May 2011 | QO'NOS IDENTIFIED

For many years we have wondered about the origins of three fine artworks that depict the Klingon homeworld of Qo’noS. Thanks to Martyn Mees we finally know. It turns out they were not, as we assumed, concept arts produced for when the planet first appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Rather they are renderings of 3D cutscenes that appeared in a video game!

Check out our article about Qo’noS to enjoy all three pictures and find out where they are from!

10 July 2010 | CARDASSIAN SHIPYARD

The first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s seventh and final season called for an extended Cardassian shipyard complex which would appear just twice on the show in total. John Eaves, who worked as a production illustrator on Deep Space Nine, devised a vast installation reminiscent of the Deep Space Nine space station itself, before a rather less ambitious but sprawling design was decided upon.

See Eaves’ designs along with the final model in our latest entry, “The Cardassian Shipyard That Wasn’t.”

8 July 2010 | MIKE MINOR PORTRAIT

Mike Minor was one of the people brought in during the late 1970s to work on Star Trek: Phase II. He provided sketches for what should have become the new Enterprise’s sets, including its Bridge, Sickbay and Engineering section. His designs are on display on the Phase II interior design page.

Unfortunately we never had a portrait of Mr Minor here at Forgotten Trek. Thanks to Doug Drexler, who posted this picture at his blog, Drex Files, we know now what this legendary Star Trek artist looked like!

16 December 2009 | JEFFERIES PHASE II SKETCHES

When Star Trek was to make its return to television with Phase II, Gene Roddenberry asked Matt Jefferies to refit the Enterprise that he had designed more than ten years before. As you can read in our article, “Designing the Phase II Enterprise,” Jefferies upgraded the design yet the sketches he produced for it we wrongly identified as being part of the development of the The Original Series—until now.

Thanks to Mr Matt Lawrence, who spotted the “June 77” date on these drawings, they are finally on the page they belong.

20 September 2009 | WARBIRD IN BAY

Andrew Probert’s impressive contribution to the 2010 Ships of the Line calender depicts a mighty Romulan Warbird undergoing refit at “Station Gray.”

At Mr Probert’s website, you can see a larger version, as well as a detail picture that reveals just how meticulous this science fiction veteran goes about drawing his visions of the Star Trek universe—drawn all by hand, mind you, which is quite a spectacular thing in these days of digital art, CGI and what-not.