American model maker (1945–2022) who built studio miniatures for the Star Trek films and series, including the four-foot Enterprise-D and the replica original Enterprise used in Trials and Tribble-ations.
Greg Jein was an American model maker, twice nominated for an Academy Award for his miniature work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1941. As a fan in 1973 he wrote an article matching registry numbers to the Constitution-class starships, figures later adopted by the franchise itself.
He contributed miniatures to Star Trek: The Motion Picture and went on to build many models for The Next Generation, among them the four-foot Enterprise-D introduced in the third season, the Ferengi Marauder and the Klingon Vor'cha-class attack cruiser.
For the Deep Space Nine anniversary episode Trials and Tribble-ations he built new models of the original Enterprise, Station K-7 and a Klingon D7 battle cruiser. He died in 2022.