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Watched a different "Making of..." a while back. Almost embarrassing how little Robrt Wise seemed to know about the series. At one point he was quite dismissive of the "tiny" models used on the show, boasting that his Enterprise was eight feet long. The model used in TOS was eleven feet. (Even Douglas Trumble grumbled that the principle model was too small, and they had to build a "periscope" rig for the camera, to shoot the closeups.) +++++++++
Yeah, Wise was admittedly not a fan, and had a number of episodes screened for him when he got the job. As the story goes, it was his wife (who WAS a fan) who told him that he needed to get Nimoy onboard, since it simply wouldn’t be STAR TREK without Spock. As for his model comments, those may have been an honest mistake on his part. The three-foot Enterprise model from TOS was loaned out to Magicam (the initial studio contracted to build TMP’s models) by Roddenberry as a reference, early on, and it was during that time that the model was lost/stolen/destroyed. It could very well be that Wise saw the small model in the FX studio when planning out TMP’s effects, and assumed that it was the primary filming miniature from TOS. So, yeah, from his point of view, the new model built for TMP would have been much bigger by comparison. He may simply have been unaware of the 11-footer’s existence.
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