Michael Okuda is an American graphic designer best known for his work on Star Trek including designing futuristic computer user interfaces known as "okudagrams".
14 Facts About Michael Okuda
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Michael Okuda served as a technical consultant on the various TNG-era Star Trek series along with Rick Sternbach, advising the scriptwriters on the technology used throughout the Star Trek universe such as the transporters and the warp drive, for example Michael Okuda created the Heisenberg compensator as a way to explain how Star Treks fictional transporter might work, despite the limitation of the uncertainty principle.
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Michael Okuda then went on to write a number of Star Trek books with his wife, Denise.
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Michael Okuda continued working at Paramount Studios on multiple Star Trek series that followed The Next Generation, including as an art supervisor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and through to the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005.
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Michael Okuda worked on the Star Trek movies that were produced while the various television series were in production.
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Michael Okuda served as one of the producers when CBS digitally remastered and updated special visual effects for the original series.
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Plait reported contacting Michael Okuda who revealed that Michael Okuda and his wife, Denise and graphic artist James Van Over, were all huge fans of The West Wing.
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Mike and Denise Michael Okuda served as consultants on the project to upgrade Star Trek: The Next Generation to high definition.
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In 2005, Michael Okuda contributed as a consultant for Perpetual Entertainment in their development of the MMORPG Star Trek Online.
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Michael Okuda helped with the cataloging of items for the auction of Star Trek memorabilia by Christie's auction house.
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Michael Okuda designed logos for a number of NASA missions and programs including the STS-125 mission of Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and the Ares I-X development test flight.
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Michael Okuda designed a team emblem for the planned STS-400 rescue mission, which would have been launched if there had been a major problem during the STS-125 mission.
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In 2015, Michael Okuda served as a visual consultant for the pilot Firestorm, a crowd-funded project set up by Jamie Anderson, son of Gerry Anderson, creator of Thunderbirds.
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Michael Okuda was presented with the award at a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on July 9,2009.