James Mees
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
(written from a Production point of view)
James "Jim" Mees (born 10 August) was a set decorator for Star Trek: The Next Generation beginning with the second season. When The Next Generation ended, Mees moved onto Star Trek: Voyager for the first and last four seasons, and then worked on the entire run of Star Trek: Enterprise.
He, along with the rest of the Art Department, won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction in 1990 for "Sins of the Father". The group also earned five other Emmy nominations.
Before working on Star Trek, he worked on numerous rock shows as an Assistant Art Director for bands including Earth, Wind and Fire and The Beach Boys. In the late 1970s, he began working for The Lawrence Welk Show before moving onto The Jeffersons, and eventually Star Trek.
In the sixth season of TNG, a running gag behind the scenes began: the Mees panel. Similar to the Jefferies tube of the The Original Series, the Mees panel referred to the oft-used circuitry panels aboard the USS Enterprise-D, painstakingly (and expensively) designed and constructed by Mees and his team.
Other in-universe terms named after Mees include Theta Mees, J. Mees and Captain James Mees. Mees was interviewed in 2002 for the special feature section of the TNG Season 6 DVD and talked about the set decoration and the reuse of furnitures.
