He had been responsible for various alien ships and shuttlecraft on The Next Generation, including the runabout, but his predecessor, Andrew Probert, had created the Enterprise-D. It was the first lead ship Sternbach designed. He wasted no time getting the design process started. Rick Sternbach, who was then working as an illustrator and tech consultant on The Next Generation, was brought on board the following month. Executive Producer Jeri Taylor decided as early as August that the new ship should be sleeker and smaller than the Enterprise-D. Development of the fourth Star Trek series started in the middle of 1993, during the last season of The Next Generation and the second season of Deep Space Nine.
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