Matt Jefferies

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Walther Matthew "Matt" Jefferies was born on August 12, 1921 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania; he died on July 21, 2003 in Los Angeles, California.

He was the art director and designer in the original series who designed the original Enterprise with its saucer-shaped hull, engineering hull and two nacelles.

In his honor the crawl spaces on all Starfleet vessels are named Jefferies tubes, a reference used throughout the entire Star Trek franchise. The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "First Flight" also mentioned Captain Jefferies, who was also named in honor of Matt Jefferies.

During World War II he was a bomber pilot (over Africa and Europe).

For other pilots among Star Trek personnel, see Gene Roddenberry and Michael Dorn.

After the war he became an illustrator at the Library of Congress, and in the 1950s he was hired as set decorator at Warner Brothers.

In 1964, Gene Roddenberry asked Matt to design a starship for his new TV series. The design survived both Gene and Matt. Jefferies died of congestive heart failure, after a fight with cancer.