Craig Thompson Craig O . Thompson is an author , speaker , educator , and anti - terrorism expert , who from 1966 through 1969 has worked as office manager post - production on , while employed by Desilu Productions , which later became Paramount Television , first under the auspices of Post - production Executive Bill Heath and subsequently under Post - production Supervisor Edward K . Milkis after the latter took over all the post - production supervising duties from season two onward . In an interview given by him to William S . McCullars in 1997 , originally for McCullars ' now defunct website " The IDIC Page " , he has described his duties in post - production , " " Production is everything from conceptualizing to actually filming a show . But the minute the film is pulled from the camera , it becomes the property of the post production office . That means we handled all the physical dailies through shooting , as well . Then , when the film left the camera , we would handle all of the film processing , cutting , editing , , sound editing , music editing , and commercial integration , right down to the contract prints that were sent to the network . " " Years later , now working as a college teacher , Thompson became re - acquainted with the franchise when he organized a publicly accessible exhibition for the college with had as theme the space program of NASA , in order to pay for a guest lecture by noted science fiction writer . Through a series of chance contacts ( involving among others former executive producer Herb Solow ) , Thompson was given the opportunity to have the original eleven - foot studio model of the included in the exhibition as well . Only too happy to help out a former colleague , the studio allowed the college to arrange the shipping of the model to the institution , were it was reassembled and on display for several weeks in April 1972 , arguably the very first time a " Star Trek " studio model was on tour . The McCullars interview has been , in edited form , published in . Career outside " Star Trek " . Hailing from Los Angeles , Thompson interrupted his education to work for the U . S . Peace Corps as the first 18 - year old volunteer to serve overseas in Sri Lanka , before he took on his position at Desilu . His responsibilities were not restricted to " Star Trek " , but were also applied to the other productions , Desilu was involved with , " Mannix " , and " Mission Impossible " . Apart from his duties in post - production , Thompson also worked as producer / artistic director at Lucille Ball ’ s Studio Theater . He left Desilu after " The Original Series " wrapped and completed his education at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff , Arizona with a degree in education . After graduating Thompson did not return to the motion picture industry , but opted to pursue a career in education as teacher , his first teaching job being at the Navajo Reservation . In 1971 he took on a position at Golden West College , Huntington Beach , California as director of student activities . It was here that he organized the " Enterprise " model to be exhibited . Over the next decades , Thompson developed a growing interest in the threats of nuclear , biological , chemical , and radiological warfare and the potential effects of terrorism on democratic soils and has specialized in these subjects , giving lectures and speeches for a multitude of institutions and organizations , concerned with these themes , as well as writing a multitude of articles about them . On 10 September 2001 , one day before the 9 / 11 attack on New York City , he gave a three hour radio interview on KFI radio , Los Angeles , predicting a major terrorist attack while identifying Al Qaida as a likely perpetrator . In 1999 , Thompson published his first fiction novel , " Omar " , which deals with global terrorism .