Lisa Morton Lisa R . Morton is a noted , multiple award winning , author of books and novellas in the horror genre , as well as a screenwriter for several television productions . Nevertheless , Morton started out in the motion picture industry as a studio model maker , and as such has contributed to two " Star Trek " productions , albeit uncredited for both . In the late 1970s Lisa Morton , a movie memorabilia collector , met and befriended fellow collector Gregory Jein through the convention circuit . It was through this acquaintance that Morton landed her first professional job in the motion picture industry , as she recalled , " " I never really thought about hitting him up for a job , but he hit me up . He said to me one day , " " Hey , you know , if you ever want to work for this , sometimes I need a lot of people " " , and I said , " " Sure , I ' d love to . " " So he actually did end up calling me . There were are group of us he kind of mentioned it to , and he called us one day and said , " " Hey , we are on , and we need an army to get this thing done on time . Do you want to come to work ? " " Needless to say , yes was the answer . " " ( " Sense of Scale " ) The " army " Jein referred to was not an exaggeration , as he elaborated on the tight time schedule of three - four weeks he was given , " " We called people all over town . There were probably close to twenty or thirty of us working on it , on and off . At least four weekends we didn ' t go home at all . When it finally came out , we were still two or three days late . " " ( " Cinefex " , issue 2 , p . 45 ) Officially brought in by Entertainment Effects Group as " Gregory Jein , Inc . " , in order to alleviate the time pressure on that company , Jein ' s " army " , which incidentally also included Don Pennington , as well as Bill George of later Industrial Light & Magic ( ILM ) fame , was tasked with the construction of the interior model sections of V ' ger . In the last quarter of 1987 , Lisa Morton very shortly returned in Greg Jein ' s employ , helping out her former mentor with kick - starting his recently revitalized company , Gregory Jein , Inc . While there , she , among others , helped out with the company ' s first official commission , the build of the " D ' Kora " - class studio model , intended for use in the " Next Generation " s first season episode . Career outside " Star Trek " . Prior to her gig at the " Motion Picture " , Lisa Morton had already become friends with Bill George , whom she had met through the science fiction convention circuit , and became part of his " dumpster diving " team that scavenged through the trash dumpsters of ILM ' s at their Van Nuys , Los Angeles facility , in search of discarded production items , during the years 1977 - 1978 . Having been taken under the wing of Greg Jein , Morton followed her mentor after " The Motion Picture " to work on the models for the " Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Special Edition " of 1980 . She continued to do this kind of visual effects work as well for the productions , " The Beast Within " ( 1982 , featuring Ronny Cox and Bibi Besch ) , " One Dark Night " ( 1982 ) , and " The Abyss " ( 1989 ) , mostly uncredited . By 1987 however , despite her short spell at Gregory Jein , Inc . , Lisa Morton ' s career had already taken on a different path toward screen writing and producing , having started out by serving as writer , director and producer for several small theater companies in the Southern California area . As such , she has continued to contribute to , mostly television , productions like , " Meet the Hollowheads " ( 1989 , in both capacities ) , " Adventures in Dinosaur City " ( 1991 ) , " Toontown Kids " ( 1994 ) , " Sky Dancers " ( 1996 ) , " Dragon Flyz " ( 1996 ) , " Van - pires " ( 1997 ) , " Tornado Warning " ( 2002 ) , " Blue Demon " ( 2004 ) , with the 2005 productions " Thralls " and " Glass Trap " , her most recent ones . Over the course of the 1990s , Lisa Morton developed an interest in writing stories in the horror genre , a calling she has pursued vigorously ever since . This she did with ever increasing success , having earned the Bram Stoker Awards for her short story " Tested " ( 2006 ) , her first novella , " The Lucid Dreaming " ( 2009 ) as well as one for a non - fiction one in 2008 , " A Hallowe ' en Anthology : Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries " , which also received a Black Quill Award nomination . The latter award however was won by her the next year for the " Midnight Walk " anthology . In addition to these two consecutive President ' s Richard Laymon Awards from the Horror Writers Association , were won by her in 2006 and 2007 . In the below mentioned documentary , Lisa Morton has reminisced in - depth about her model making days , and which , incidentally , also prominently features her former mentor , Greg Jein .