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The FX for ST: TMP *were never finished.* That film in on record that it went all the way to the release date in a huge rush just to get it out the door, and MUCH of it was never completed to the director's liking (and some of it was just never finished at all, like many effects shots and sound effects).
Most of the work we did was material that was intended to be there in the first place. We used the actual storyboards from 1978 to make the shots, and everything we did was designed to look like it could have been done back then - we did no fancy CGI stuff to show off.
A perfect example is when Kirk arrives at Starfleet in his shuttle - the release edition has a REALLY long shot of the Starfleet logo on the floor of the San Francisco hangar bay - you know why? Because there were supposed to be shots of Kirk's shuttle flying to the station, but they were never finished so the screen time that was set aside for them had to be filled with something - so it was filled in with a shot of the floor.
Many of the shots inside the Enterprise had nothing but black outside the windows - you were supposed to see section of the ship or, later on, parts of Vger... but there wasn't time to do it so it was left black.
I think it was great to finally go back and FINISH the movie the way it was storyboarded in 1978. We did not add anything new just to make it look cooler.
