Rick Sternbach worked as senior illustrator on Star Trek: Voyager, continuing the technical design work begun in 1987 on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Rick was responsible for blueprinting and detailing numerous spacecraft and props, including the U.S.S. Voyager, Deep Space 9, and the Klingon attack cruiser. He also served as a technical consultant to the writing staff. Rick won an Emmy Award award as an Assistant Art Director and Visual Effects Artist on the PBS series Cosmos, and twice won science fiction's Hugo Award for Best Artist.

His other media credits include "The Last Starfighter" and "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Rick has illustrated the science fiction writings of Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, and James White. On the scientific side, his space art has appeared in the pages of Sky & Telescope, Smithsonian, and Aviation Week & Space Technology. Rick is the coauthor with Michael Okuda of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual and the author of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints.

It was once a battered Cardassian ore-processing facility orbiting the planet Bajor. But Terok Nor took on a new life when the Cardassians evacuated and were replaced by Starfleet personnel. With the discovery of a nearby stable wormhole connecting the Alpha Quadrant with the Gamma Quadrant, the newly christened Space Station Deep Space 9 became one of the most important installations in known space.

Filled with hundreds of schematic diagrams and illustrations, the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual" is essential for anyone interested in the ships, technology and weapons of Starfleet and the many different species, who frequent the station, including the Klingons, the Bajorans, the Romulans, the Cardassians, and the Jem'Hadar.

As an added bonus, four full-color gatefolds have been specially created for this book. In addition to providing an in-depth look at the exteriors of the station, these illustrations also show the Promenade, and highlight the U.S.S. Defiant.

Turning the ravaged outpost into a fully operational station involved much more than a simple name change. The transformation represented an arduous challenge to the Starfleet engineers who were required to merge two divergent technologies. How they archived that feat, and how the Federation helps the Bajoran government keep the station running smoothly, is revealed in the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual."