Jim Mees

Biography

Mees was born in Mahopac, New York on August 10, 1955. He gained a bachelor's degree in theatre and lighting design from Carnegie Mellon University in 1977. Mees complained of Ronald D. Moore writing scenes in which characters would pull open wall panels on the Enterprise: because the Enterprise was a stage set instead of a real ship, anything shown behind a panel would have to be designed and built separately. As a result of these complaints, these removable panels were subsequently referred to in scripts as "Mees panels". Mees also created the stage designs for music artists such as Diana Ross and The Beach Boys. During the mid-1990s, he taught design at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville, Tennessee.