Beside Star Trek, Norkus worked as assistant camera operator on the thriller Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989), the horror film Strays (1991), the comedy Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), the crime comedy First Sunday (2008), the romance Love Hurts (2009), and the television series Deadwood (2005-2006), Journeyman (2007), and Big Love (2006-2010).