However, the art department worried about their ability to make the shot look realistic, and nothing takes sci-fi fans out of a compelling story quicker than a goofy-looking special effect. This could have been a major problem, so they embraced an easy solution: they outsourced the job to a third-party special effects lab.
As always, the quality of the finished effect is in the eye of the beholder. Supervising Producer David Livingston, for example, thought the scene in question was so dark that he didn’t know if “the audience got the full impact of it.”
However, this Star Trek producer also called out the effect’s visual similarity to one of the most iconic images in sci-fi history: “It was the old Star Wars deal,” he said, “where Harrison Ford is frozen in carbonite in the wall of Jabba the Hutt’s palace.
From the outside looking in, this might not seem like a complex effect to achieve.
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