Who is this "Hersey" signing TMP set design sketches?

[Harry]

Browing through The Art of Star Trek looking for some inspiritation, I stumbled upon at least two Phase II/TMP sketches signed by someone named "Hersey". On pages 160/161, we see sketches of the bridge and main engineering (with quite an interesting engine layout). "Hersey 4/78". Any idea who this is, since Google doesn't list even one Hersey linked to Star Trek in any way....

 

[Christopher]

^^Hm. Those are on p. 162-3 in my edition.

I would assume that Hersey was a production illustrator working on the early stages of the movie. I tried searching IMDb for Herseys who worked as illustrators or artists around that time, but with no success.

 

[comsol]

Maybe Rick Sternbach might know who this individual is, since he also worked in the ST-TMP art department?

 

[Rick Sternbach]

Maybe Rick Sternbach might know who this individual is, since he also worked in the ST-TMP art department?

Might have been someone working with Bob Abel's company, not on the Paramount lot. There were a number of artists who contributed material early on who were not at Paramount for the pre-TMP work, and there were folks from other facilities who did art after TMP was announced and our official art department was activated. Not my idea of a centralized command, but I was an inexperienced grunt back then.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

 

[Maurice]

Maybe ask Andy Probert. I know a number of illustations foir TMP were credited to him that weren't hsi work. He might know who it is.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Might have been a guy involved in the Phase II pre-production, maybe? Several of those sets were used and upgraded for TMP, IIRC.

 

[Christopher]

^^No, according to the book, the illustrations are concepts for the feature-film upgrades of the Phase II sets. Rick is probably right that it's someone from an outside contractor hired for the film.