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Released
2016 · FILM

Building Star Trek

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Runtime
92 min
DocumentaryScience Fiction

Synopsis

When *Star Trek* first aired in 1966, it expanded viewers' imaginations about what was possible in their lifetimes. Today, many of the space-age technologies displayed on the show, such as space shuttles, cell phones, and desktop computers, have already transitioned from science fiction to science fact. Other innovations, including warp drive, teleportation, and medical tricorders, are actively in development. Join us as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of *Star Trek*—a show that continues to inform, enrich, and inspire.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 10

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Greg WestShot by Derek RogersScored by Joel S Silver

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