Rick Sternbach

Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, by Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda.

Rick Sternbach (1951- ) is a Star Trek senior illustrator, technical consultant, and reference book author. He began with The Motion Picture, was part of the TNG design team for all seven seasons, and also contributed heavily to DS9, VOY, and Star Trek: Nemesis. His ship designs have been showcased in the Designing Starships reference work series.

Several Starfleet vessels were named for him, including the Curry-class USS Sternbach and the Echelon-class USS Sternbach, as well as characters such as Sternbach and Admiral Rick Sternbach.

Outside of Star Trek, his illustrations have appeared in Analog, Galaxy Science Fiction, and other magazines. He painted covers for Larry Niven's Ringworld (honored as a location in Star Trek Maps), World of Ptavvs (introduction of the Slavers), and Neutron Star (containing "The Soft Weapon", later adapted into TAS episode: "The Slaver Weapon"). He won two Hugo Awards in the 1970s plus an Emmy Award for his work on Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series.

Star Trek bibliography

Reference works

• Spaceflight Chronology (Illustrator, December 1979)
• Star Trek Maps (Illustrator, August 1980)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (with Mike Okuda, November 1991)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual (with Michael Okuda, November 1994)
• USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints (July 1996)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual (with Herman Zimmerman & Doug Drexler, October 1998)
• Star Charts (Technical advisor, October 2002)
• Klingon Bird of Prey Owners' Workshop Manual (with Ben Robinson, November 2012)
• Designing Starships: The USS Voyager and Beyond (Illustrator, April 2017)

RPG sourcebooks

• Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide (Illustrator, September 2021)

Articles

In-universe

• Star Trek: The Magazine
  • "Starfleet Technical Database: Intrepid-class Design Evolution 2361-2370" (Vol. 3, Issue 1, May 2002)
  • "Klingon Technology: Personal Weapons" (Vol. 3, Issue 7, November 2002)
  • "Constellation-class: Engineering Report 3.01" (Vol. 3, Issue 9, January 2003)
  • "Romulan Propulsion: Historical Overview" (Vol. 3, Issue 10, February 2003)
  • "AeroShuttle Technology: Engineering Report 4.1" (Vol. 3, Issue 12, April 2003)

Real-world

• The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine
  • "Mission Briefings: The Weapons and Technology" (Issue 7, May 1989)
  • "Mission Briefings: Engineering (Issue 8, June 1989)
  • "Mission Briefings: The Art of 'The Next Generation'" (with Mike Okuda, January 1990)
  • "Mission Briefing: The Borg" (Issue 10, January 1990)

• Star Trek: The Magazine
  • "Designing Tricorders" (Vol. 1, Issue 1, May 1999)
  • "Designing the Hypospray" (Vol. 1, Issue 5, September 1999)
  • "Designing the Vor'cha" (Vol. 1, Issue 15, July 2000)
  • "A Close Look at the USS Voyager NCC-74656" (Vol. 1, Issue 16, August 2000)
  • "Designing the Delta Flyer" (Vol. 1, Issue 18, October 2000)
  • "Designing the USS Voyager, Part 1" (Vol. 1, Issue 19, November 2000)
  • "Designing the USS Voyager, Part 2" (Vol. 1, Issue 20, December 2000)
  • "Designing Ares IV" (Vol. 2, Issue 2, June 2001)
  • "Designing the Type-12 shuttlecraft" (Vol. 2, Issue 5, September 2001)
  • "Designing the Runabout" (Vol 2., Issue 10, February 2002)
  • "Designing the USS Prometheus" (Vol. 3, Issue 11, March 2003)
  • "Designing Hirogen Ships" (Vol. 3, Issue 12, April 2003)

Unlicensed works

• USS Enterprise Officer's Manual (with Doug Drexler, 1980)

Cover artist

• Spaceflight Chronology (December 1979)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (November 1991)
• USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints (July 1996)
• Klingon Bird of Prey Owners' Workshop Manual (with Adam Lebowitz, November 2012)

Interviews

• "Designing the 24th Century: Andrew Probert, Mike Okuda, Rick Sternbach" (The Official Fan Club Magazine, Issue 60, February/March 1988)
• "Unsung Hero of the Federation" (Star Trek Magazine, Issue 32, October 1997)
• "Rick Sternbach: Star Trek Illustrator" (Star Trek: The Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 6, October 2001)

Images

Paintings

UNSS Amity.

Baton Rouge-class.

UNSS Bonaventure.

DY-100 class.

Declaration-class USS Enterprise.

Horizon-class

UNSS Icarus.

UNSS Lewis and Clark.

Mann-class.

Marshall-class.

UNSS Tycho Brahe.

DY-500 class spacecraft.

Alpha Virginis II.

Hydra II

Pyrimiis I.

Rigel IV.

Goddard Moonbase.

Farside Moonbase.

Schematics

Space shuttle, 1980-1992.

Aventeur.

D5 class schematics.

D5 class profile.

Project Gemini spacecraft.

Horizon-class.

Mariner 10.

Mercury-class.

Messier.

Pioneer Venus Probe.

Rickenbacker.

Class-9 probe.

Nova-class concepts.

Type-9A cargo shuttle.

Sphinx workpod.

Cut-away diagram of an ASRV.

The upper main shuttlebay on deck three.

The main shuttlebay on deck four.

Cetacean living quarters & computer core on deck 13.

Cetacean lifeboat emplacements and a Takaya's whale & dolphins.

Klingon cloaking device.

Photon torpedo launcher.

Antimatter pod.

Appendices

External links

• Rick Sternbach article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Rick Sternbach article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Rick Sternbach article at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database.