Michael Minor

{{Short description|American illustrator and art director (1940–1987)}}

{{other people||Mike Minor (disambiguation){{!}}Mike Minor}}

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| name = Michael Minor

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|09|25}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|05|04|1940|09|25}}

| occupation = Illustrator, Art director

}}

Michael Minor (September 25, 1940 – May 4, 1987) was an American illustrator and art director on Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Minor, along with Joseph Jennings, Andrew Probert, Douglas Trumbull and Harold Michelson, designed the refit USS Enterprise for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, based on Matt Jefferies' original USS Enterprise design for the television series.

For a period during the 1970s, Minor worked at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, where he created a lunar panorama for the planetarium based on images from the Apollo missions.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

When Harve Bennett, a new Paramount television producer, was hired to create a cheaper, better sequel to The Motion Picture, he chose Minor to help shape the art direction.{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Kay |date=1982 |title='Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan': How the TV series became a hit movie, at last |journal=Cinefantastique |volume=12 |issue=5–6 |page=53}}

Minor won an Emmy Award nomination for his visual effects work on the acclaimed 1983 mini-series The Winds of War.Newsweek,

August 10, 1987, UNITED STATES EDITION

SECTION: SPECIAL REPORT; One Year In The Epidemic; May 1987; Pg. 35 He would later garner an Emmy nomination in "Outstanding Art Direction for a Limited Series or a Special" for The Winds of War.

Other credits include work on The Lost Saucer (1975–1976), The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981), the 1982 fantasy film The Beastmaster, and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985).