American sound designer, famous for his work on other space sagas, who created the sound effects for the 2009 Star Trek film and returned for Star Trek Into Darkness.
Ben Burtt, one of the best-known sound designers in cinema, was brought in by J.J. Abrams to create sound effects for Star Trek in 2009.
An admirer of the original series, he researched how its effects had been made in the 1960s and built new versions of the transporter, phaser, communicator and bridge sounds on the same foundations, so that the new Enterprise would sound recognisably like the old one.
He contributed again to Star Trek Into Darkness in 2013.