An updated volume features a new, 128-page appendix on the latest episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager as well as the newest movie, Star Trek: Insurrection.
Michael Okuda is the scenic art supervisor for
Star Trek: Voyager. He is responsible for those show's control panels, signage, alien written languages, computer readout animation, and other strange things. Michael worked on all seven years of
Star Trek: The Next Generation, and
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His other credits include six
Star Trek feature films,
The Flash, The Human Target, and the never-seen American version of
Red Dwarf. Along with Rick Sternbach, Michael serves as a technical consultant to the writing staff of Star Trek and is coauthor of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual book and CD-ROM. Michael grew up in Hawai'i, where he graduated from Roosevelt High School and earned a BA in communications from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is a member of IATSE Local 816 (Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists) and is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Mike is a proponent of science education and he really wants to be the first graphic artist in space.