What look were you going for with the model shots?

We were aiming to get a sense of speed and the size of the Enterprise. So we had wide angle lenses very close to the miniature when we did the moves by it. The other method of attaining that speed, of course, was the moving stars. And they were just as much or probably more trouble and � took more experimenting than any of the rest of the problems that were presented to us with doing Star Trek.

I don�t think anybody had seen moving stars before or stars moving at the speed of light. That took a year or two to develop. We tried everything that would look right on it, but as soon as anything moved close to camera, of course, stars looked like meatballs, so they were not at all what was necessary and the resolution of the tiny dots on film was more than than you could see on television, so we finally evolved a method that took us a long, long time. It was a toughie.