Originally Posted by Landgolier
Clarification: all the OG star trek spaceship scenes (and most other old school sci-fi) were filmed with the models hanging upside down, and the film was later flipped.
And when they got blasted, they'd just shake the cameras and the actors would fall all over the place.
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