Word: dykstra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idealism that made Star Trek popular as a television show. Roddenberry apparently reneged on his promise. The special effects are not particularly wondrous, although publicity materials for the film claim that special effects wizards Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind and John Dykstra (Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica) created the effects with the most sophisticated equipment ever devised for such work...
...creators" of The Motion Picture wanted to get away from the rough 'em up cowboys and laser beams action of Star Wars, they decided to put their special effects money into non-military opticals of the Enterprise's travel through an alien "cloud." It is quite possible that Dykstra and Trumbull decided that since anyone can create the illusion of space travel--they should devote their energies to creating a formidable enemy so large (82 Astronomical Units--about 7.5 billion miles in diameter) and so colorful and so full of sexual imagery that their work would be considered seminal...
...also rumored that the original special effects team was fired two years into the production, leaving Dykstra and Trumbull to pick up the ball midway. This could account for the rushed, unfinished appearance of the effects...
...Peter Dykstra, Greenpeace spokesman, said yesterday the offshore drilling is unnecessary and hazardous because the estaimted amount of oil in George's Bank is low and because there are no environmental safeguards in the proposed plan...
Star Wars fans will recognize his touch in some fierce space battle scenes and seemingly three-dimensional images of stars and planets. Similar tricks were also used to move the various robots. Whereas Artoo Detoo was powered by a midget, Galactica's Muffit hides a chimpanzee, which Dykstra figured could more easily reproduce the unpredictable, jumpy actions of another animal, or robot animal. The formidable Lucifer, Count Baltar's aptly named robot assistant, however, does house a man. Since Actor Bobby Porter is only 4 ft. 11 in., the towering Lucifer has 18 unoccupied inches...