David Ralph Deitrick is a comic book cover artist, an American illustrator who lives in Alaska. Deitrick's Star Trek artwork spans three decades.

Biography

In the 1980s, he produced a variety of covers and interior artwork for FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, beginning with the adventure module Denial of Destiny, which he painted in July 1983. ^[1] He also designed the bladeship USS Claymore that appeared on his cover to the Star Fleet Intelligence Manual. ^[2]

In 1994, he drew ten starships for the Galactic Encounters subset of the Star Trek - Master Series II trading card set by SkyBox, including the Klingon bird-of-prey and the K't'inga-class and Vor'cha-class battlecruisers. His favorite illustrations were for the Web Spinner-class and Romulan bird-of-prey. ^[3]

In 2009, for IDW Publishing he provided covers for each issue of their Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan adaptation; his covers were used as retail incentives for the series.

Outside of Star Trek, he is known for his work on Traveller and BattleTech.

Star Trek bibliography

FASA cover artist

• Denial of Destiny (1983)
• The Vanished (1983)
• Stardate Magazine Issue 3/4 (Volume 1): "Back Cover: Vulcan Engineer" (1985)
• The Outcasts (1985)
• A Matter of Priorities (1985)
• The Triangle Campaign (1985)
• Where Has All the Glory Gone? (1985)
• A Doomsday Like Any Other (1986)
• The Mines of Selka (1986)
• Decision at Midnight (1986)
• Return to Axanar (1986)
• An Imbalance of Power (1986)
• Old Soldiers Never Die (1986)
• Conflict of Interests (1986)
• The Dixie Gambit (1986)
• Trader Captains and Merchant Princes (1987, second edition)
• Star Fleet Intelligence Manual (1987)
• The Strider Incident (1987)
• The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge / The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge (1987)

SkyBox trading card artist

• Star Trek - Master Series II, Galactic Encounters subset (1994, SkyBox)

IDW cover artist

• "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 1" (June 2009)
• "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 2" (17 June 2009)
• "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 3" (1 July 2009)

Appendices

Cover gallery

Other images

Connections

FASA RPG writers, artists, developers, and editors
Writers	William A. Barton • Michael P. Bledsoe • Forest G. Brown • Michael A. DeLuca II • John M. Ford • Tara J. Gallagher • Clare W. Hess III • Todd W. Heuttel • Karl Hiesterman • Andrew Philip Hooper • Donna Ippolito • J. Andrew Keith • Dale L. Kemper • Andrew Larkin • Pat Larkin • Guy W. McLimore, Jr. • Bernard E. Menke • Michael Mornard • Marcus Mulkins • Bill Paley • Blaine L. Pardoe • Boy F. Peterson, Jr. • Greg K. Poehlein • Peter R. Rice • Peter R. Rogan • Kevin Stein • Rick D. Stuart • David F. Tepool • John Terra • John A. Theisen • Jordan K. Weisman • W. John Wheeler • Deborah Wheeler
Artists	L. Ross Babcock III • Jane Bigos • Rob Callwell • David R. Deitrick • Les Dorscheid • Bob Eggleton • David J. Hutchins • William H. Keith Jr. • Dana Knutson • Lisa Kolek • Jeff Laubenstein • Todd F. Marsh • David Martin • Norman Miller • Jim Nelson • Mitch O'Connell • Robert Oswald • Rowena Morrill • Doug Shuler • Jerry Tiritilli • John C. Tylk • Jordan K. Weisman • Darnell Williams
Developers	L. Ross Babcock III • Michael P. Bledsoe • Forest G. Brown • John M. Ford • J. Andrew Keith • Sam Lewis • Guy W. McLimore, Jr. • Bernard E. Menke • Michael Mornard • Bill Paley • Blaine L. Pardoe • Greg K. Poehlein • Peter R. Rogan • Rick D. Stuart • David F. Tepool • John A. Theisen • Jordan K. Weisman • W. John Wheeler • Christopher E. Williams
Editors	L. Ross Babcock III • William A. Barton • Michael P. Bledsoe • Forest G. Brown • C.R. Green • Todd W. Heuttel • Donna Ippolito • Dale L. Kemper • Guy W. McLimore, Jr. • Jim Musser • Greg K. Poehlein • Helena Szepe • Jordan K. Weisman • W. John Wheeler

IDW Publishing artists
Interior artists	Bob Almond • Javier Aranda • Yulian Ardhi • Claudia Balboni • Josep Maria Beroy • John Byrne • Debora Carita • Gaetano Carlucci • Elena Casagrande • Marina Castelvetro • Mack Chater • Chee Yang Ong • Oleg Chudakov • Steve Conley • Joe Corroney • Andrew Currie • Rob Doan • Erica Durante • Joe Eisma • Erfan Fajar • Mike Feehan • Matt Fillbach • Shawn Fillbach • Arianna Florean • Tana Ford • Drew Geraci • Nicole Goux • Ornella Greco • Gianluigi Gregorini • Gabriel Hardman • Mike Hawthorne • Christopher Herndon • Josh Hood • Corin Howell • Roberta Ingranata • Daniel Irizarri • Chris Johnson • Agri Karuniawan • Luca Lamberti • Jack Lawrence • Aaron Leach • Megan Levens • Yasmin Liang • Sonny Liew • Casey Maloney • Federica Manfredi • Fabio Mantovani • Jose Marzan Jr. • David Messina • Stephen Molnar • Stephen Mooney • Philip Moy • Victor Moya • Philip Murphy • Sean Murphy • Tom Nguyen • Carlos Nieto • Leonard O'Grady • Augustin Padilla • Terry Pallot • Hugo Petrus • Joe Phillips • Stacie Ponder • Sara Pichelli • Hendry Prasetya • Gordon Purcell • Wagner Reis • Carlos Rodriguez • Pow Rodrix • Ramon Rosanas • Simon Roy • Marc Rueda • Rob & Joe Sharp • Tony Shasteen • Bob Smith • Gavin Smith • Matthew Dow Smith • Cat Staggs • Rachael Stott • Erik Tamayo • Stephen Thompson • Marcus To • German Torres-Ruiz • Ángel Unzueta • Caspar Wijngaard • J.K. Woodward
Cover artists	Mike Allred • Robert Atkins • Mark Alvarado • Zachary Baldus • Jake Bartok • Elizabeth Beals • Alexandra Bequez • Josep Maria Beroy • Adrián Bonilla • Sweeney Boo • James Brown • John Byrne • Dennis Calero • George Caltsoudas • Elena Casagrande • Mack Chater • Chee Yang Ong • Mike Cho • Oleg Chudakov • Steve Conley • Robby Cook • Joe Corroney • Andrew Currie • David Deitrick • Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe • Mike Feehan • Chris Fenoglio • Francesco Francavilla • Paulina Ganucheau • Jeremy Geddes • James Gray • Ornella Greco • Aaron Harvey • Angel Hernández • Greg Hildebrandt • Steffi Hochriegl • Josh Hood • Zach Howard • Megan Huang • Jamal Igle • Roberta Ingranata • Jewel • Daniel Warren Johnson • Joelle Jones • Liana Kangas • Ken Kelly • Marc Laming • J.J. Lendl • Megan Levens • Amanda Madriaga • Kevin Maguire • David Malan • Butch Mapa • Justin Mason • Judd Mercer • David Messina • Stephen Molnar • Philip Murphy • Sean Murphy • Leonard O'Grady • Augustin Padilla • Michael Pangrazio • Bob Peak • Sara Pitre-Durocher • Andy Price • Rahzzah • Pablo Raimondi • Tom Ralston • Brian Reber • Rod Reis • Carlos Rodriguez • Ramon Rosanas • Simon Roy • Nick Runge • Jim Salvati • Declan Shalvey • Kelsey Shannon • Rob & Joe Sharp • Hayden Sherman • Paul Shipper • Stefano Simeone • Ángel Solórzano • Luke Sparrow • Erik Tamayo • Matt Aytch Taylor • Andrew Thomas • Stephen Thompson • Marcus To • Priscilla Tramontano • Ángel Unzueta • Suspiria Vilchez • Nickolej Villiger • Sean Von Gorman • Kevin Wada • Malachi Ward • Mali Ware • David Williams • J.K. Woodward
Colorists	2B Studio • DC Alonso • Davide Amici • Jennifer Baumann • Moose Baumann • Mario Boon • Josh Burcham • Chiara Cinabro • Andrew Elder • Romulo Fajardo, Jr. • Triona Farrell • Nick Filardi • Fran Gamboa • Mike Hawthorne • John Hunt • Jason Jenson • Lovern Kindzierski • Charlie Kirchoff • Thompson Knox • Joana Lafuente • Jason Lewis • Lee Loughridge • Marissa Louise • Paolo Maddaleni • JD Mettler • Miquel Muerto • Giovanna Niro • Leonard O'Grady • Ronda Pattison • Brittany Peer • Mirco Pierfederici • Valentina Pinto • John Rauch • Priscila Ribeiro • Mark Roberts • Claudia ScarletGothica • Chris Sotomayor • Tom Smith • Priscilla Tramontano • Ilaria Traversi • Caspar Wijngaard • J.K. Woodward
Letterers	AndWorld Design • Clayton Cowles • Jeff Eckleberry • Christa Miesner • Johanna Nattalie • Robbie Robbins • Chris Mowry • Richard Starkings • Neil Uyetake

References

External links

• David Deitrick article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• David Deitrick's website
• David R. Deitrick article at the InterGalactic Medicine Show blog.
• David Deitrick article at the BattleTech Wiki.
• David Deitrick article at the Traveller RPG Wiki.