Douglas Trumbull discusses his visual effects work on
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), focusing on the 'reveal' sequence where Captain Kirk first sees the refit Enterprise in space-dock. The work was extremely complicated and done under tremendous time pressure--the movie has as many shots in it as both
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) combined, yet the work had to be done within six months.
—yortsnave