(written from a Production point of view)
Richard Frank McKenzie is a set designer who worked on Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Together with production designer Herman Zimmerman he created the set for the battle bridge of the USS Enterprise-D and he drew the construction plans for the full scale model of the Type 15 shuttlepod. Captain Richard McKenzie was named after him.
McKenzie's first work in the art department was The China Syndrome (1979) on which he worked with set designer William Ladd Skinner. He then worked as set designer The Man with Bogart's Face (1980), Can't Stop the Music (1980, art direction by Harold Michelson), Body Heat (1981, with production illustrator Joseph Musso), Tank (1984), Silverado (1985), Stand by Me (1986, starring Wil Wheaton and Jerry O'Connell), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Stephen Collins), Spaceballs (1987, art direction by Harold Michelson), No Way Out (1987), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), Beetlejuice (1988), and Chances Are (1989).
Following his work on Star Trek, McKenzie worked as set designer on One Good Cop (1991, with production designer Sandy Veneziano), Another You (1991), Noises Off (1992), Nowhere to Run (1993), City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994), and Speechless (1994).
Star Trek credits[]
- TNG: (Set Designer)
- "Encounter at Farpoint" (Season 1)
- "The Naked Now"
- "Code of Honor"
- "Haven"
- "Where No One Has Gone Before"
- "The Last Outpost"
- "Lonely Among Us"
- "Justice"
- "The Battle"
- "Hide And Q"
- "Too Short A Season"
- "The Big Goodbye"
- "Datalore"
- "Angel One"
- "11001001"
- "Home Soil"
- "When The Bough Breaks"
- "Coming of Age"
- "Heart of Glory"
- "The Arsenal of Freedom"
- "Skin Of Evil"
- Season 2 (all 22 episodes)
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier – Set Designer (as Richard Frank McKenzie)