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TSFS
was Leonard Nimoy's feature film directorial debut. |
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Originally the bar scene with McCoy was to end with a bar
fight, but this was cut. |
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The
janitor shown on the station looking through the window
when the Enterprise is being stolen was played by
Charles Karrel, a cinematographer. |
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The
Klingon bridge in the movie was redressed from a set
made from another movie (not Star Trek). |
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Robin
Curtis was not allowed to wear her Vulcan ears at home,
unlike Kirstie Alley. |
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9
cameras were set up to capture the scenes of the Genesis
planet breaking up. |
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The
staircase for the entrance to the Vulcan "altar" was
shot at Occidental College. |
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The
villains of the film were originally intended to be
Romulans, but upper studio management wanted Klingons to
be used since they were better-known enemies. By the
time the decision was made, the Romulan ship was already
made and they didn't want the expense of replacing it.
Fortunately, the TV show had already established that
the Klingons and Romulans had shared technologies and
ships in the past (for exactly the same real-world
cost-cutting reasons) so the idea of Klingons using a
Romulan-style vessel was not a problem. |
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Production was endangered by the great fire at Paramount.
William Shatner helped fight the fire before firefighter
reinforcements arrived. |
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When
the Enterprise enters space dock at the beginning of the
movie, just before Uhura comments on the Excelsior's
appearance ("Would you look at that!"), another docked
ship can be seen, in shadow, at the upper left corner of
the screen. This ship is one of the alternative models
that was considered for use as the Excelsior. This
alternate model also makes several appearances in Star
Trek: The Next Generation , usually as a wrecked ship or
piece of space junk. |
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The
Excelsior was supposed to debut in Star Trek II and be
identified as newly-promoted Capt. Sulu's first command.
This plotline was dropped and Excelsior saved for this
film. Sulu would finally take command of her in Star
Trek VI. The ship design would be reused for the USS
Enterprise-B in Star Trek Generations. |
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Originally the Enterprise was to be totally destroyed in
the self-destruct (if you look carefully, you can see
the stardrive exploding just before the saucer does). In
the following scene, the crew were observing smaller
pieces of debris entering the atmosphere. However, Harve
Bennett didn't think the scene was dramatic enough, so
the sequence was changed to the saucer exploding, and
the stardrive entering and burning up. |
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The
U.S.S. Grissom bridge was the U.S.S. Enterprise bridge
rearranged with pink chairs, and the Bar where McCoy
tries to charter the spaceflight is the Enterprise
sickbay redressed. |
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The
USS Excelsior's computer voice (heard in the turbolift
when Scotty mutters "Up your shaft") was supplied by
director Leonard Nimoy. |