Richard James told us about the complexity of making the set, what�s it like being involved with that level of detail in production?

Well, what�s hard on any TV show is that things happen very quickly, and so Richard just pulled off a miracle every week with building these sets. There�s a very high standard for Star Trek sets, they want them to look like a real space ship, not like plywood walls. They want them to have the shape of a spaceship, they want them to have the detail, and the solid feel of metal, instead of wood, which is what they�re all made of. So you had to build these very detailed, very, complicated sets very quickly. Sometimes the scripts wouldn�t come out �till a week or less before he had to have the set ready, so he would have to read the script, come up with an idea, draw it like an architect, and have it built in less than a week, I mean, it was amazing how quickly they did it.

What was a lot of fun for me when I directed on the show was to be able to get a script, then Richard would come in with some idea about a set, and to be able to say, �Well, what if we had this a little different and this detail or this space, I could have a shot that did this and I could stage it in a certain way.� And so we�d collaborate. Richard was great, he was very open to collaborating and bringing in great ideas and taking something that you suggest and go, run with the ball. He was great, Richard just did a beautiful job.