American production designer (born 1936) who designed the sets of Star Trek: The Next Generation from its second season onwards and then all seven seasons of Star Trek: Voyager.
Richard D. James (born 1936) is an American art director and production designer. He took over as production designer of Star Trek: The Next Generation at the start of its second season, succeeding Herman Zimmerman, and remained until the series ended in 1994.
On that show he was responsible for the weekly run of alien worlds, starship interiors and space stations, and he inherited and maintained the standing Enterprise-D sets, including the Ten Forward lounge that Zimmerman had designed for the second season. He won an Emmy Award for the art direction of the Klingon episode Sins of the Father.
James then designed Star Trek: Voyager for its entire run, creating the bridge, engineering and corridors of the USS Voyager and the look of the Delta Quadrant cultures it met.