What technical resources do you have available to you now that weren't available to the original series?

The one thing they didn't have on the original series was time, and they didn't have a lot of money. We still don't have a lot of time and a lot of money but we've learned how to budget it quicker.

I actually have a laboratory here on the lot at Paramount, where we build, manufacture, paint and put it all together. The old series, Fred literally made things at home, he made Spock's ears at home in the kitchen. There are some interesting stories on the original Vulcan ears how they did a test and they did them out of wax and tissue paper and everything, and it looked terrible, and they finally sculpted them out clay and made moulds on them for Leonard Nimoy.

With me, it's easy, it was all established, it's a matter of doing the plaster cast on somebody's ears, sculpting up the new ears and making the moulds and pouring the rubber and gluing them on, and away we go.