Star Trek III Sets

The classic Star Trek movies have been showing on pay cable and of course I love them, even the bad ones.

But it’s crazy how cheap they made some of these sequels, especially given how extravagent the VFX are in the new series.

Star Trek III has an almost absurd reuse of sets: the Klingon Bird of Prey bridge is a redress of the Enterprise torpedo room; the San Francisco bar was built in sickbay; the Grissom bridge is the Enterprise bridge with the helm facing the other way.

You can also see how the cinematography uses the old trick of long lenses and careful angles to avoid showing too much of partial sets (like the Excelsior bridge).

Wild.