Star Trek: The Motion Picture/Trivia


 * Troubled Production:
 * The script was regularly being rewritten during filming.
 * The first special effects house couldn't get the job done so John Dykstra and Douglas Trumbull were hired late in the production and had to rush things
 * Wise didn't want to shoot for more than 12 hours a day, resulting in the production getting behind schedule a mere two days after principal photography started.
 * It was so over budget that Paramount executives were keeping a running tab each day of how much (they had trusted Roddenberry despite the fact that he had never produced a feature film; after this they knew better than to let him again).
 * According to Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the executive in charge of production for Paramount, the released film was essentially a rough cut that no one had seen in its entirety before shipping.