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Spock lifts his crew mates with the rocket boots. He passes deck numbers 35 through 78 from bottom to top. First off, deck numbers go from top to bottom. The bridge is on deck 1. Second, the Enterprise of that class only had 23 decks! See more...
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Directed by William Shatner, starring DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Laurence Luckinbill, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, William Shatner (add more)
William Shatner's contract for Star Trek IV stipulated that he would only be in that movie if he could direct Star Trek V.
If I am correct the Yoman who gives Kirk the status report he signs on the bridge is in reality William Shatner's daughter, Melanie Shatner, who had also appeared in TOS Episode Miri as one of the children.
The sound effect used for the brig prison bars is the exact same effect used in Predator when you see from the POV of the Predator in thermal mode.
This probe which the Klingon ship destroyed is either the Pioneer 10 or 11. This is based on the plaque it carries. The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, launched a few years after the Pioneer spacecraft, had a child on their plaques along with the man and woman.
The Vulcan word for Heaven or Eden was Sha Ka Ree, an intentional play on the name Sean Connery, the first actor asked to play the role of Sybok.
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