Alan Sims Alan James Sims is a property master of the art department who worked on and . His ex - wife Deniece appeared in the second season episode in , when the script asked for a pregnant Bringloidi woman . For this episode , he also hired animal trainers and provided an African pygmy goat from his own property . ( " Departmental Briefing Year Two : Memorable Missions – Up The Long Ladder " , TNG Season 2 DVD special features ) Sims was also responsible for hiring the trained that swooped down and attacked Neelix in the episode . " " Instead , " " recalls Sims , " " the hawk spotted a crow and went off after it in the opposite direction . It took hours to find him . The delay was a nightmare . " " ( " Star Trek 30 Years " , p . 46 ) Sims appreciated the idea of the creation of Ten Forward because it gave him the opportunity to create a lot of food and alien beverages for episodes such as . ( " Departmental Briefing Year Two : Production – Props " , TNG Season 2 DVD special features ) Sims received a co - author ' s credit for the reference book " " . Lt . , whose name was seen on a graphic in the TNG episode , was named for Sims . The SIMs beacon , seen throughout the spin - off shows , was also named after him . Career outside " Star Trek " . Alan Sims started to work in the art department in the late 1970s , as set dresser on the musical drama " New York , New York " in 1977 . He worked as leadman on the television miniseries " How the West Was Won " ( 1978 - 1979 ) and on the television western " The New Maverick " ( 1978 , with Eugene Roche , Graham Jarvis , and Gene LeBell ) . Sims became assistant property master and worked on the drama " Heaven ' s Gate " ( 1980 , with set designers Nancy Mickelberry and William Ladd Skinner ) , the drama " The Jazz Singer " ( 1980 ) , the television drama " Evita Peron " ( 1981 ) , the television drama " Leave ' em Laughing " ( 1981 , with Elisha Cook , Jr . , William Windom , Bruce French , and TNG set designer Louis M . Mann ) , the television drama " Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy " ( 1981 ) , the fantasy drama " Something Wicked This Way Comes " ( 1983 ) , and the comedy " Planes , Trains & Automobiles " ( 1987 , with Michael McKean , Richard Herd , and art director Harold Michelson ) . Following his association as technical advisor with the horror sequel " Friday the 13th : The Final Chapter " ( 1984 , with Erich Anderson , Lawrence Monoson , and Wayne Grace ) , Sims became property master on the television miniseries " Space " in 1985 . He then worked as porperty master on the second season of " The A - Team " ( 1984 - 1985 , starring Dwight Schultz ) , the television science - fiction thriller " Assassins " ( 1986 , with Karen Austin and Jonathan Banks ) , and the " Heart of the City " episode " Cold Steal and Neon " ( 1986 ) . Following fourteen years of work on " Star Trek " , Sims worked as property master on the television pilot " Bram and Alice " ( 2002 ) , the television comedy " Alligator Point " ( 2003 ) , the television series " Miracles " ( 2003 ) , " NCIS : Naval Criminal Investigative Service " ( 2003 - 2005 ) , " Windfall " ( 2006 ) , " In Case of Emergency " ( 2007 ) , " Standoff " ( 2006 - 2007 ) , and the television drama " Supreme Courtships " ( 2007 , with Daphne Ashbrook , Kurtwood Smith , and John Berg ) . He also served as assistant property master on the 2005 thriller " Flightplan " . More recent work as property master include the comedy " Crazy on the Outside " ( 2010 , with Kelsey Grammer ) , the " Perfect Couples " pilot episode ( 2010 ) , and the television series remake " 90210 " ( 2008 - 2011 ) .