The staff artist of Incredible Tales in 1953, whose drawing of a space station inspires Benny Russell's story in Sisko's vision of Far Beyond the Stars.
Roy Ritterhouse appears in the Deep Space Nine episode Far Beyond the Stars. He is the magazine's illustrator, a gruff, pipe-smoking artist who hands out sketches for the writers to build stories around, and he has the face of the Klingon general Martok.
Among the drawings he brings in one month is a picture of a wheel-shaped station hanging in space. Benny Russell takes it, and from it writes Deep Space Nine, the tale of a black captain commanding such a station.
Ritterhouse likes the result and says so. He has no power over what the publisher will accept, though, and when the owner pulps the whole issue rather than print Benny's story, his artwork is destroyed along with it.