As I recall, the production was so fraught it was a miracle the film got made at all. It's like the whole thing was cursed, but everyone was just too stubborn to give up on it.
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@Nezchan @socketwench - pretty much. The king and arduous task of making and remaking pitches for a Star Trek movie with Paramount continually rejecting them made them lock into the Phase II pilot when Paramount said the pilot is what they wanted in a movie.
The two main production disasters during filming were the constant ego driven rewrites between Gene Rodenberry and Harold Livingston and the original effects company failing to deliver a single shot after a year.
That we got a movie at all was amazing.
