Key among these were famed production designer Ken Adam, who said, "I was approached by Gene Roddenberry and we got on like a house on fire"; he was employed to design the film. Polyurethane foam was sprayed over the framework under the supervision of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

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Security swept cars leaving the lots for stolen items; even the principal actors were not spared this inconvenience. Commander Spock arrives as a replacement science officer, explaining that while on his home world undergoing a ritual to purge himself of emotion, he felt a consciousness that he believes emanates from the cloud, making him unable to complete the ritual because his human half felt an emotional connection to it. It is often regarded as one of the composer's greatest scores, [52] [53] and was also one of the American Film Institute's 250 nominated scores for their top 25 American film scores.Owing to background noise such as camera operation, much of the ambient noise or dialogue captured on set was unusable; it was Serafine's job to create or recreate sounds to mix back into the scenes. The machines upgraded the probe to fulfill its mission, and on its journey, the probe gathered so much knowledge that it achieved sentience. Fletcher designed the Class B uniform as similar to evolved T-shirts, with shoulder boards used to indicate rank and service divisions. Koenig described the state of the script at the start of filming as a three-act screenplay without a third act.

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As the Paramount executive in production, Katzenberg tried to keep costs down as filming lagged behind schedule. With the approval of Roddenberry, Fletcher fashioned complete backgrounds for the alien races seen in the Earth and recreation deck sequences, describing their appearances and the composition of their costumes. A year into the production, millions of dollars had been spent but almost no usable footage had been created; [30] :4 Abel and Associates was not experienced in motion picture production and the steep learning curve worried the producers. Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition – The Complete Adventure is out now on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.David Gautreaux, who had been cast as Xon in the aborted second television series, appears as Branch, the commander of the Epsilon 9 communications station. On Earth, the starship Enterprise is undergoing a major refit; its former commanding officer, James T.