Niel Wray
Niel R. Wray  is the visual effects supervisor in the employ of CBS Digital for the remastered  effort begun in . In the remastered version of the episode , he appeared as a Starfleet science division officer in the newly integrated digital matte painting as well as a guard miner in the new scenes from . Wray is the creator of the Gorn starship, seen briefly in the episode . In  he started working in the same capacity for the remastered , and was among others responsible for the recreation of the CGI model of the Crystalline Entity, as the original computer files were lost. 

The in-universe characters Niel Wray Raymond in  and  in  were named after him.

Career 
Wray was born in Arcadia, California and was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, movie or special for his work on the television film The Winning Season (2004) and the miniseries Into the West (2005, shared with Tim McHugh, Craig Weiss, Chris DeCristo, and Eric Ehemann). He also earned a Visual Effects Society Awards nomination in the category Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program for his work on Kings (2009), which he shared with Ronald B. Moore, Brian Vogt, and Craig Weiss.

Wray also worked as a digital and visual effects artist on the television series The X-Files, Touched by an Angel, Oliver Beene (2003-2004), Skin (2003), and  (2004), as well as on the television films Invasion (1997, starring Kim Cattrall, Neal McDonough, and Rosana DeSoto), Fatal Error (1999), Jesus (1999), and Riding the Bullet (2004, which featured Matt Frewer and visual effects coordinator Wendy Ruiz).

His credits as CG Supervisor includes the science fiction film Astronauts (2002), the thriller Locusts (2005, with Natalija Nogulich), and the catastrophe thrillers Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004) and Category 7: The End of the World (2005). In the previous one he also appeared as a background actor, a gateway arch tourist.

More recently, Wray worked as visual effects supervisor on the CBS drama series Code Black (2015).

Bibliography 
 Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2010), June spread and centerfold – Co-Illustrator
 Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2011), August and October spreads – Co-Illustrator
 Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2011), December spread – Illustrator

Star Trek interviews 
  "More Remasterpieces" ()
 Energized! Taking The Next Generation to the Next Level, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special feature (2012)

External links 
 
 Niel Wray at LinkedIn.com

CBS Digital staff
Star Trek calendar artists
Performers
TOS remastered performers