Doug Brode
Doug Brode is an artist and illustrator who designed props and weapons for . Among the props he designed for the film was the new tricorder. He is described as an "adamant Trekkie" and, as such, was also a technical adviser on the film. 

Brode has worked with property master Russell Bobbitt as a prop illustrator on such films as Planet of the Apes (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), and Iron Man (2008). Bobbitt considers Brode to be his "ace-in-the-hole designer." They also collaborated on Star Trek; it was Bobbitt who requested that Brode design a new tricorder for the film.

Brode is also a writer, creating the erotic science fiction series Forbidden Science, which was greenlit by HBO/Cinemax on Brode's last day at work on Star Trek.

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