Michael Minor

For other people with the same name, see Mike Minor.

Michael Minor
Born	(1940-09-25)September 25, 1940
Died	May 4, 1987(1987-05-04) (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

1. 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.
2. Newsweek, August 10, 1987, UNITED STATES EDITION SECTION: SPECIAL REPORT; One Year In The Epidemic; May 1987; Pg. 35

External links

• Michael Minor at IMDb
• Michael Minor at Memory Alpha