Original art by Al McWilliams from Gold Key’s Star Trek #48 (1977).  The script for t

Original art by Al McWilliams from Gold Key’s Star Trek #48 (1977).  The script for this story was by Doom Patrol creator Arnold Drake with a Story Consultant credit was given to Doug Drexler. Drexler would start a career in Hollywood in 1982 with as a prosthetic makeup artist on Tony Scotty’s  The Hunger and work on a slate as varied as Starman,Manhunter,C.H.U.D.andDick Tracy before he began work in the makeup department on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990. 

From that position, his career course changed and he became a prominent figure in the design and visual effects departments for the franchise, working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Generations,Star Trek: First Contact,Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Enterprise as well as the director’s cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Drexler’s work as a Trek artist was also featured in The Star Trek Encyclopedia and the Ships of the Line calendar series among other works, my favorite being the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual put out by Ballentine in 1977. You can find a copy of that particular work for not-very-much on the secondary market, or ogle this PDF over at Thetafleet.net.