Masao Okazaki

Masao Okazaki is an artist and designer who has contributed to the Star Trek Magazine, and whose space station and starship designs have graced the covers of several Star Trek: Vanguard novels, as well as inspired authors of other Star Trek series.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Okazaki now lives in Tokyo and is a full-time medical school associate professor editing research manuscripts and teaching English language. In his spare time he maintains his website, The Starfleet Museum which is a collection of historical ship designs, mostly created by himself.

Designs
Author, Christopher L. Bennett, envisaged Okazaki's Capella-class starship for the USS Hypatia in his Star Trek: DTI novel Forgotten History.