Michael Minor
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Michael "Mike" Minor (7 December 1941 – 4 May 1987; age 45) was a conceptual and production illustrator on Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the art director for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Minor, along with Joe Jennings, Andrew Probert, Douglas Trumbull and Harold Michelson, designed the refit USS Enterprise for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, based on TOS series art director Matt Jefferies' original USS Enterprise design for the television series. Minor did not get any legal credit for the design from the US Patent and Trademark Office, however, since Andrew Probert is listed as the sole "inventor" of the look of the refitted Enterprise on the design patent issued for it.
However, Minor did receive credit as an inventor on the issued design patents for both the USS Reliant and the photon torpedo casing. In both instances he shared the credit with Joe Jennings.
Minor won an Emmy Award nomination for his visual effects work on the acclaimed 1983 mini-series The Winds of War. He also received an Emmy nomination in Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special for the same program. Minor's other credits include visual effects work on the 1982 cult fantasy film The Beastmaster and art direction for the films The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981) and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985, starring Joel Grey, Patrick Kilpatrick and Kate Mulgrew).
Minor died of AIDS in Los Angeles, California.
