Star Trek Enterprise designer dies

[FlashHarry]

BBC story here.

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Walter "Matt" Jefferies, the art director who designed the original Enterprise vessel for the first Star Trek series has died, the official website of the sci-fi series has announced.

His design of the NCC-1701, as it was designated in the first series, has become one of the most iconic images of 1960s television.
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[Um_Yeah]

1. Sad.

Did they name Jefferies Tubes after him? I always wondered about that.

[FlashHarry]

2. Yep, they did. N/T

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. You guys are TREKKIES!

It takes one to know one! :)

[soothsayer]

3. I bought 3 original sketches of his last year (set designs for Star Trek)

Sad to hear he's gone.

I just last week got around to picking out mats and frames for them.

I got seriously outbid on the sketches of the shuttle craft, and couldn't come close to winning the Enterprise sketches.

[Ready4Change]

5. Its a sad day for starship doodlers.

I've doodled starships on just about every notebook or pad of paper I've ever owned.

God Speed, Mr. Jefferies.

[Sequoia]

7. So did I, in my Bible

when I was around 14 years old. I found an old blue Oxford Bible I had back in my southern kid days and in it I drew a crude version of the Enterprise. I also wrote in it Go Apollo 'cause that was when we "landed on the moon". Pretty funny. Last night I was watching "Raintree County". Long move but goold ole Dr. McCoy was in it as a rebel.

[Octafish]

6. Fare Thee well, Voyager!

And may you find peace and infinite new worlds in eternity.

[Paragon]

8. Oh, the SHIP designer...

I was hoping maybe the guy who designed the *show* ENTERPRISE died. ;-)

[Ripley]

9. I wonder if he's going to be buried in space?

There's an organization called Celestis that puts a portion of your cremated remains on a rocket and shoots you into space. One of the guys who discovered Hale/Bopp did it a few years ago.

He was a pioneer! Farewell.

[robbedvoter]

10. His work is at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum

(saw it when I went to DC for the protest). That's no mean feat! May the Big Bird of the galaxy lay an egg for him!