Michael Minor

Michael Minor
Michael Minor
Born	September 25, 1940
Died	May 4, 1987 (aged 46)
Occupation(s)	Illustrator, Art director

Michael Minor (September 25, 1940 – May 4, 1987) was an American illustrator and art director on Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Minor, along with Joseph Jennings, Andrew Probert, Douglas Trumbull and Harold Michelson, designed the refit USS Enterprise for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, based on Matt Jefferies' original USS Enterprise design for the television series.

For a period during the 1970s, Minor worked at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, where he created a lunar panorama for the planetarium based on images from the Apollo missions.^{[citation needed]}

When Harve Bennett, a new Paramount television producer, was hired to create a cheaper, better sequel to The Motion Picture, he chose Minor to help shape the art direction.^[1]

Minor won an Emmy Award nomination for his visual effects work on the acclaimed 1983 mini-series The Winds of War.^[2] He would later garner an Emmy nomination in "Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special" for The Winds of War.

Other credits include work on The Lost Saucer (1975-1976), The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981), the 1982 fantasy film The Beastmaster, and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985).

References[edit]

^ Anderson, Kay (1982). "'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan': How the TV series became a hit movie, at last". Cinefantastique. 12 (5–6): 53.
^ Newsweek, August 10, 1987, UNITED STATES EDITION SECTION: SPECIAL REPORT; One Year In The Epidemic; May 1987; Pg. 35