Dave Blass Archives

Production designer Dave Blass, like many Star Trek fans, has roots in watching the franchise in his childhood, starting with The Original Series While he was too young to have experienced it during its original run on NBC, he caught it on reruns and developed a passion for science fiction like many in his generation[...]

Star Trek Picard production designer Dave Blass and showrunner Terry Matalas have been on one hell of a journey restoring The Next Generation to its full glory, not only getting the cast back together but bringing back the original designers from the syndicated series back into the fold to recreate the U.S.S Enterprise-D[...]

Enterprise-D from The Next Generation opened up perhaps a new beginning for a new series in Star Trek: Legacy, at least that's the hope for Picard showrunner Terry Matalas and production designer Dave Blass, coming off their successful third and final season for Paramount+ The final shot before the mid-credit scene featuring Ed Speleers' Jack Crusher[...]

As fans behold the final season in all its glory thanks to Paramount's Blu-ray release, production designer Dave Blass took time to share a rare moment of levity between the grease monkey dipshit from Chicago working his magic on the U.S.S Titan-A along with his first officer he keeps deadnaming with Stashwick and Jonathan Frakes[...]

Both Matalas and production designer Dave Blass spoke out on what might have been and what needed to be done to make the season a reality. Photo Credit: Trae Patton/Paramount+ ©2021 Viacom, International Inc All Rights Reserved. How Star Trek: Picard Season Three Could Have Turned Differently "It was not going to be this," Matalas told Indiewire[...]

To say there's tons of information to mine resources from would be an understatement for Picard production designer Dave Blass in his approach to the third and final season that saw the reunion of most of the core cast of The Next Generation for one last adventure. Photo Credit: Trae Patton/Paramount+ ©2021 Viacom, International Inc[...]

The hashtag "Project Phoenix" isn't officially Star Trek canon, but after the David Carson film, Shatner, along with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, wrote the Star Trek novel "The Return" in 1997, showing how Kirk could be revived – because if Spock (Leonard Nimoy) can return from death, why can't he? One of the first responses[...]

"Section 31, if they're around, what are they up to? It felt like, sort of, the mirror way to honor the Star Trek Universe, where you had one side, the Fleet Museum was the more nostalgic, warmer, and here's like, kind of darker, but more interesting aspects of Star Trek." "We initially had started out[...]