Oscar-nominated set designer John M. Dwyer, whose work graced two Star Trek TV series and six movies, has died aged 83.

His first work on Star Trek came with the second season episode The Trouble with Tribbles, and he was nominated for an Emmy with Matt Jefferies for their work on the Spock-centric episode All Our Yesterdays in the third year. “In those days, nobody cared what you put on the set, so long as there was something that looked right,” he recalled in 2002. “I’d take a piece of Masonite and cover it with some adhesive Mylar, put a two-by-four on the backside of it and hang it on a wall.”

He returned to the Star Trek universe for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and then worked on the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, before returning to the movies for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and all four Next Generation movies, concluding with Nemesis in 2002, after which he retired.

Away from Starfleet, he also worked on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Two Minute Warning, Alien: Resurrection and Hollow Man. His Oscar nomination, shared with John W. Corso, came for Coal Miner’s Daughter

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