Matt Jefferies, the art director who designed the original Starship Enterprise and probably contributed to the franchises success as anyone else, had died after a long bout with cancer. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry gave Jefferies the task of designing a starship unlike the rocket ships and flying saucers used in virtually every other science fiction medium. The result was a saucer section atop a tubular engineering section, from which also sprouted two other tubular warp nacelles. This remained the essential design for all other starships in every Star Trek movie, series and cartoon that followed.
Also, Jefferies’ revolutionary design of a circular bridge set allowed for all sort of dramatic scenes to be shot there because it gave the show’s central character, the captain, access to other station, as well as made him the center of attention as he sat in the “captain’s chair.” Trek Nation has an article, as does the official Star Trek site.
Why post Star Trek news here? Because RAH was a Star Trek fan. I’ve seen pictures of him flashing the traditional Vulcan salute. You could say that Heinlein “grokked Spock.”
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