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Doug Drexler: Designing Star Trek Continues.


New Star Trek may no longer grace our televisions each week, but
fans who are creative professionals such as actors, writers, and
effects designers—many of whom worked on the shows themselves—are
now producing original content out of their sheer love for Star
Trek. And it's amazing. One such fan is Doug Drexler, the Academy
Award-winning designer whose hand can be seen across the
franchise on TV, film, and beyond.


In this, the inaugural episode of our new show dedicated to
exploring the ways in which fans are keeping Star Trek alive,
we're joined by Doug to discuss his work on Star Trek Continues
and his previous work on Star Trek: Phase II. We also find out
how he became a Star Trek fan in the first place, how he landed
his first gig in Hollywood, and how he got hired onto TNG. Plus,
moving beyond the screen, we learn about the design process of
the new Starfleet-built Deep Space 9 that first appears in David
R. George III's Revelation and Dust.


 


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Chapters


2:13 Early Fandom


10:17 Getting Hired on TNG


15:35 Star Trek Through the Years


22:30 Working on Star Trek Continues


39:43 Designing the New DS9


50:22 The Future of Independent Productions


55:42 Closing