American production designer and storyboard artist (1920–2007) who designed Star Trek: The Motion Picture and shared an Academy Award nomination for its art direction.
Harold Michelson was an American illustrator, storyboard artist and production designer who had drawn storyboards for films including The Birds and The Graduate.
He was appointed production designer of Star Trek: The Motion Picture when Robert Wise took over the project, and reworked the sets that had been begun for the abandoned television series Star Trek: Phase II. With the art director Joseph R. Jennings and others he created the interiors of the refitted Enterprise, among them the bridge, the corridors, sickbay and the tall engine room with its vertical intermix shaft.
The work brought the art department an Academy Award nomination. Several of the sets survived in altered form into the later films and The Next Generation.