American production designer who designed Star Trek Beyond in 2016, including Starbase Yorktown, the planet Altamid and the old starship Franklin.
Thomas E. Sanders took over as production designer for Star Trek Beyond, succeeding Scott Chambliss, who had designed the first two Kelvin-timeline films.
His department refreshed the Enterprise interiors before the ship's destruction and created the film's new settings: the vast snow-globe space station Yorktown, the camp and rocky terrain of Krall's base on Altamid, and the cramped, century-old USS Franklin, whose bridge deliberately echoes the era of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Beyond was among his final films; he died in 2017.