Richard Michael Sternbach was born on 1951 and is an illustrator who is best known for his space illustrations and his work on the Star Trek television series.
11 Facts About Rick Sternbach
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Rick Sternbach became a friend of science fiction writer Greg Bear, after his illustration of "A Martian Ricorso" featured in the cover of the February 1976 issue of Analog.
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In 1977, inspired by the story of artist Ralph McQuarrie's move from working in the aerospace industry to working for George Lucas on Star Wars, Rick Sternbach moved to California to seek illustration work in the film and television industry.
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From 1977 to 1980, Rick Sternbach worked as an Assistant Art Director and Visual Effects Artist on Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage series, where he designed sets and storyboard sequences during pre-production and then worked on visual effects scenes during production.
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At around the same time, Rick Sternbach collaborated with Charley Kohlhase and Jim Blinn at JPL on the Voyager 1 Jupiter flyby movie, creating textures for the Galilean satellites.
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In January 1987, Rick Sternbach was hired along with Andrew Probert to start design work for a new Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Rick Sternbach helped define the look of the 24th century that would be used throughout The Next Generation and the series that followed it, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.
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When Voyager finished its seventh year in 2001, the producers decided they wanted a different look for the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise that was set in the 22nd century, so Rick Sternbach did not transfer over to the Enterprise art department, concluding his fourteen-year employment at Paramount Studios.
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Rick Sternbach returned to Star Trek in 2002, when he produced control panel designs and signage for the Enterprise-E and Romulan starships in Star Trek Nemesis.
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Rick Sternbach is a noted contributor to the usenet newsgroup sci.
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Rick Sternbach's company, Space Model Systems, is a leading provider of accurate decals for model kits of the Saturn V, as well as the Apollo Command Module.