Alan Sims was the property master for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. He also served in this capacity on the television series The A-Team (starring Dwight Schultz) as well as such film as Heaven's Gate (1980), The Jazz Singer (1980), and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).
He received a co-author's credit for the publication Star Trek: Aliens & Artifacts.
Lieutenant Alan Sims, whose name was seen on a graphic in the TNG episode "Violations", was named for Sims.