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Shatner
wanted the horses in the movie to be unicorns, but Gene
Rodennberry opposed it saying it would seem too much
like fantasy. In the end, the horse ended up being
a modified unicorn. |
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The
horses were initially going to be a gold color, but it
did not work out, so they were changed to blue. |
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The rock
face Kirk climbs was fake and was set up in a parking
lot overlooking Yosemite. |
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Shatner
took rock climbing lessons prior to shooting. |
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During
filming, the production crew pinned clothespins on
eachother as practical jokes. Later, they started
tying things to the pins. In one case, they pinned
several balloons to Leonard Nimoy's back. |
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The
campfire scene was shot inside the studio; the tops of
the trees on the set were not finished, so they had to
make sure the camera did not catch this. |
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Harve
Bennett plays the role of the Admiral that orders the
Enterprise to rescue the ambassadors from Paradise City. |
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The
footage of the Enterprise as seen through the shuttle's
window when Sybok, Kirk, etc.return to the Enterprise
was shorter than the dialogue. So the footage
shown through the window would end before the actors
were done speaking. |
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The shuttle bay set was built on top
of a Paramount vault that housed antiques. As a
result, they could not move the shuttles with heavy
machinery. |
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The
Enterprise corridors in the movie are the corridors used
in the Enterprise D in The Next Generation. |
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The original ending of the movie was
to include 10 rock men chasing Kirk. One rock suit
was made and it cost $350,000, which made it too
expensive for duplicates to be made. When the suit
was seen by Shatner and other production staff, they
were very disappointed in it, and chose to cut the
entire sequence. |
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The surface of Shaka-Ri as viewed
during reconnaissance by Captain Kirk was generated from
an electron microscope image of a lobster's claw. |
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The name
"Shaka-Ri" is a play on words from the original actor
asked to play the part of Sybok: Sean Connery. |
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The novel "Probe," which was at one
point considered as the basis for this film's story, was
a sequel to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). |
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William Shatner asked Paramount for
money to complete the film the way he originally
intended, for release on DVD. This would have included
the Rock men. Paramount refused. |
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Stuntman Kenny
Bates was credited with the highest descender fall in
the U.S., standing in for William Shatner's fall from El
Capitan. |
