Did you have to recreate all the original phasers and communicators?

Oh yes, yes. But those things are quite easily come by these days. You can go to any Star Trek convention and buy a replica of Kirk�s phaser from those days, or the communicator and they�re actually better made than the ones that were used on the series originally.

There�s an enormous number of products generated for Star Trek and it�s become a fairly large part of the franchise in addition to the sale of tapes, CDs and books. Instead of recreating them, we could just go purchase them.

We did have to make an enormous number of tribbles. As a matter of fact, I was talking to somebody this morning, a retired labourer, who said that after the original Trouble with Tribbles, he burned about four fifty-five gallon drums full of tribbles. He said that he wished he�d known that they would have been so popular, he would have saved them and made a fortune for himself in his old age.