David Austin Kimble, generally credited as “David A. Kimble” or simply “David Kimble”, was a technical illustrator who has served on Star Trek: The Motion Picture as production illustrator, employed at Astra Image Corporation. Already a famed contemporary automotive technical illustrator, he was responsible for the creation of the exterior orthographic ship’s operations graphics of the refit-USS Enterprise as featured on various computer consoles on the Enterprise bridge, seen in that movie and the two subsequent Star Trek films. Kimble followed up on his work for the movie with the creation of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture Blueprints, and their derivative cutaway drawing of the refit-USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. For his work on the movie, Kimble has not been officially credited.