Tim Wilcox Timothy " Tim " Glenn Wilcox was a digital artist who , as a freelancer , has shortly worked for the " Star Trek " franchise on three occasions . In 1998 , Wilcox was hired by Digital Muse to help the company out with translating the last batch of existing physical studio model s into digital ones for the season seven episode . The two ships he was assigned to were the Bajoran starship studio model and the Bajoran model . Wilcox recollected on his involvement , " " I was hired for roughly 4 - 6 weeks at Digital Muse to handle converting these two models . The technology was not where it is today to allow for detailed , practical models to be scanned on a both economic or aesthetic manner – It needed a Human touch . David Stipes had brought the actual models , crated , to Muse and they both became my office mates for the next few weeks . I photographed the models to assist in both the recreation of the textures and in measuring and accurately modeling the nurnies along the respective hulls . Having the models on hand was the key though , as I constantly was using my ruler to check and double check everything as I was building it . If you look at the top ' bridge ' of Freighter 1 , you will see that it is a zip kick bottle [ a super glue accelerator ] in real life that was re - purposed into a cool bit of spaceship . All the modeling was done in and the texturing was in . After the hero , detailed models were finished , I also circled back and built low poly proxy version which aid tremendously in the animation process and are replaced out prior to final renders of shots . " " Being lumped together under the company name , his contributions went uncredited individually . Prior to his involvement with the live - action franchise , Wilcox had , in one of his earliest professional engagements from 1993 – 1995 , contributed for Interplay Entertainment to their PC games " " ( 1993 as visual effects artist , rendering the opening movie ) and the ultimately unreleased " " ( 1999 as concept designer and 3D modeler , researching and rebuilding the interior , exterior , and props of the ) . Career outside " Star Trek " . A 1988 graduate from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor ' s degree in Arts , Cinema Television Production , Tim Wilcox started out his professional career a freelancer in the early 1990s with the two " Star Trek " games for Interplay being some of his earliest recorded credits . In between these two assignments he worked from 1993 – 1994 for Foundation Imaging , working for them as animator on the television pilot " Viper " ( 1994 ) and the first season of " Babylon 5 " , garnering his first motion picture industry credits . Afterwards , Wilcox has worked as digital artist in the 1990s for a succession of Hollywood studios and effects companies on such productions as , aside from " Deep Space Nine " , the last six episodes of the television science fiction series " Space Above and Beyond " ( 1996 , together with other notable freelance " Star Trek " effects staffer Kim Bailey ) , as well as the , predominately , science fiction movies " Contact " ( 1997 ) , " Deep Impact " ( 1998 ) and " Mission to Mars " ( 2000 ) . Wilcox continued to do so as digital artist and concept illustrator in the 21st century and has accumulated further credits for " Artificial Intelligence : AI " , " Jurassic Park III " ( both 2001 ) , the 2002 remake of " The Time Machine " , " X - Men 2 " ( 2003 ) , " The Golden Compass " , " The Day After Tomorrow " ( both 2004 ) , " The Longest Yard " ( 2005 ) , " Click " ( 2006 , uncredited ) , " I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry " ( 2007 ) , " Knight and Day " ( 2010 ) , with " Cowboys & Aliens " ( 2011 ) and " Blended " ( 2014 ) two of his more recent movie contributions . Television productions he worked upon in this period included the series " Criminal Minds " and " Star Crossed " . His work on " Cowboys and Aliens " earned Wilcox a 2012 ADG Excellence in Production Design Award co - nomination , which he shared , among others , with a host of ( alternate reality ) " Star Trek " production staff ers , including Scott Chambliss , Scott Schneider , Christopher Ross , Edwin Natividad , Lauren Polizzi , Harry E . Otto , Lorrie Campbell , John Chichester , Kevin Cross , Anne Porter , James Clyne , Andrea Dopaso , John Mann , Patrick J . Rodriguez , Jeff Frost , Jason Mahakian , Clint Schultz and Karen Manthey . Aside from his work for the motion picture industry , Tim Wilcox is co - founder and creative director of the advertisement company DigitalFusion CREATIVE , established in 2008 , where his motion picture industry skills are put to good use . Additionally he has two US patents to his name , one for a remote controller and one for a digital set - top box .