American musician and former child actor who appeared twice in the original Star Trek as Craig Hundley and later played his Blaster Beam instrument on the score of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Craig Huxley is an American musician, inventor and producer who began as a child actor under the name Craig Hundley. In the original Star Trek he played Peter Kirk, the captain's nephew, in Operation -- Annihilate! and Tommy Starnes, the eldest of the orphans, in And the Children Shall Lead.
As an adult he refined the Blaster Beam, a long metal beam strung with wires and played with metal objects to produce a deep, grinding tone. Jerry Goldsmith used it as the voice of V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, where Huxley performed it.
He also contributed electronic music to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, for the Project Genesis demonstration sequence, and played on later film scores.