Wah Chang

Wah Chang with lamp sculpture Captain Kirk holding a phaser, as designed by Wah Chang. Lt. Commander Spock holding a tricorder, as designed by Wah Chang. A Talosian from Star Trek's original pilot The original Gorn, as designed by Wah Chang. The alien puppet Balock, as designed by Wah Chang's studio.

The world of Star Trek is a troubled, but ultimately utopian world of interspecies collaboration and peace, a stark counterpoint to the tumultuous 1960’s in which it was born. Thankfully, Paramount’s newest series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds remembers its utopian roots, and has even revisited the Classic Trek episode “Balance of Terror” in its first season finale. TOR.com’s biography of Wah Chang reminds us that all the iterations of Star Trek …read more

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