Gregory Jein
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Gregory Jein is a science fiction model-maker and artist who has worked on several models and other artwork seen throughout Star Trek. His greatest achievements are the second USS Enterprise-D built for later seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the recreated USS Enterprise model built for DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations". Jein received his first Emmy Award nomination for his visual effects work on "Trials and Tribble-ations".
His work also includes:
- Ambassador-class
- Cheyenne-class
- Daedalus-class
- Excelsior-class (refit)
- Freedom-class
- Nebula-class
- Niagara-class
- Springfield-class
- Vor'cha-class
A photo of Jein was used in a prop piece of artwork, Benjamin Sisko's baseball card depicting Buck Bokai. When producers decided to do a story focusing on the character on the card, they made it a point to hire an actor who resembled Jein to portray the baseball player.
As a fan, he wrote an analysis of starship registries for the T-Negative fanzine in April 1973 entitled "The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship", in which he matched known and assumed names of starships to the registry numbers seen in TOS: "Court Martial". This list of starships with registry numbers became popular among fans, and eventually this list was used for the FASA role-playing game sourcebooks. The list, or at least parts of it, also became 'de-facto canon' through its adoption by Michael Okuda for the official Star Trek Encyclopedia in 1994. At least one of the registry numbers was actually seen on screen on the USS Defiant in ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly".
Other projects
Other projects he worked for include the War of the Worlds 1988 TV movie and series, the Hunt for Red October, V and V: The Final Battle and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and also on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension along with Denise Okuda, Christopher Lloyd, and Robert Ito, among others.
Jein was nominated for the Best Visual Effects Academy Award in 1977 and 1979 for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1941, respectively. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his effects work on the HBO mini-series Angels in America.
