Before Star Trek, Henrikson worked as music editor on the television series The Texan and the 1964 film The Best Man (with Byron Morrow). Afterwards, he built a long and distinguished career in music editing, spanning five decades. He worked in this capacity on such classic films as The China Syndrome (1979, with Richard Herd), Being There (1979), Raging Bull (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981, directed by Hal Needham), Flashdance (1983, starring Michael Nouri and photographed by Don Peterman), Stroker Ace (1983, directed by Hal Needham, co-produced by Laurel Goodwin and featuring Warren Stevens), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, with Matt Frewer, Amy O'Neill, Mark L. Taylor and Cherie Tash), Willow (1988), Glory (1989, with Cliff De Young, Ethan Phillips and Abdul Salaam El Razzac), The Peli