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

The Watchtower class Starbase 47-Vanguard.

Vanguard as rendered by Doug Drexler for the cover of VAN novel: Harbinger.

The Archer-class USS Sagittarius, again rendered by Doug Drexler for the cover of VAN novel: Reap the Whirlwind.

The Pyotr Velikiy-class USS Dauntless, rendered by Thomas Pemberton for Star Trek Magazine Issue 162: "Blast Off!".

Starbase 6, from the remastered TOS episode: "The Ultimate Computer", a reuse of Okazaki's Vanguard design scaled down.

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

External links

Masao Okazaki article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.