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Benjamin " Ben " Burtt , Jr . ( born July 12 , 1948 ) is an American sound designer , film editor , director , screenwriter , and voice actor . He has worked as sound designer on ___MASK93___ films , including the " Star Wars " and " Indiana Jones " film series , " Invasion of the Body Snatchers " ( 1978 ), " E . T . the Extra - Terrestrial " ( 1982 ), " WALL - E " ( 2008 ) and " Star Trek " ( 2009 ). Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise based on the television series created by ___MASK85___ . The first television series , simply called " Star Trek " and now referred to as "", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC . It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T . Kirk ( ___MASK16___ ) and his crew aboard the starship USS " Enterprise ", a space exploration vessel , built by the interstellar federal republic United Federation of Planets in the twenty - third century . The " Star Trek " canon of the franchise include " The Original Series ", an animated series , four television series , its film franchise and an upcoming television series scheduled to debut in 2017 . ___MASK70___ ( December 12 , 1926  September 17 , 2012 ) was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as an early practitioner of Cinéma vérité , as co - founder of IMAX , and as creator of the Sandde hand - drawn stereoscopic animation system . He was also the original inspiration for the Force , popularized in the " Star Wars " series . Leonard Simon Nimoy ( March 26 , 1931  February 27 , 2015 ) was an American actor , film director , photographer , author , singer and songwriter . He was known for his role as Spock of the " Star Trek " franchise , a character he portrayed in television and film from shot in late 1964 to his final film performance released in 2013 . Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise , centered on a film series created by ___MASK11___ . It depicts the adventures of ___MASK93___ characters " a long time ago in a galaxy far , far away ". E . T . the Extra - Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction fantasy film co - produced and directed by ___MASK24___ , and written by Melissa Mathison . It features special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren , and stars Henry Thomas , Dee Wallace , Robert MacNaughton , Drew Barrymore , Peter Coyote and Pat Welsh . It tells the story of Elliott ( Thomas ), a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial , dubbed " E . T .", who is stranded on Earth . He and his siblings help it return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government . Destiny in Space is a 70mm Canadian IMAX documentary film released in 1994 . The film was written by Toni Myers , directed by Academy Award - winner Ben Burtt , and narrated by Leonard Nimoy . The film is a showcase of the daily lives of astronauts in space , as they fix instruments and take measurements . The film includes two space shuttle launches and several cargo bay scenes , including an astronaut repairing the Hubble space telescope . CGI recreations of the surface of Venus and Mars based on satellite data from JPL are also featured . The film looks at the future of human space exploration and what future generations might accomplish in the years to come . Four filmmakers contributed to directing the film . Director / cinematographer James Neihouse was the cinematographer for Blue Planet , The Dream Is Alive , Michael Jordan to the Max and other IMAX features . Burtt , aside from his lengthy and impressive list of sound crew credits , directed both Destiny and Blue Planet . Toni Myers edited several IMAX pictures , including L5 : First City in Space , Hail Columbia ! and others . IMAX ( an acronym for Image maximum ) is a motion picture film format and a set of cinema projection standards developed in Canada by ___MASK73___ , Roman Kroitor , Robert Kerr , and William C . Shaw . IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems . Since 2002 , some feature films have been converted ( or upgraded ) into IMAX format for displaying in IMAX theatres and some have also been partially shot in IMAX . Ivan ___MASK73___ , CM ( born 7 October 1929 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian filmmaker and inventor who co - invented IMAX . Ferguson was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1993 . He graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor ' s degree . Spock , commonly Mr . Spock ( sometimes referred to as Spock , son of Sarek ), is a fictional character in the " Star Trek " media franchise . Spock was first portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the , and also appears in the , a two - part episode of "", eight of the " Star Trek " feature films , and numerous Star Trek novels , comics , and video games . In addition , numerous actors portrayed the ___MASK93___ stages of Spock ' s rapid growth , due to the effects of the Genesis Planet , in the 1984 Star Trek film "". In the 2009 film " Star Trek ", Nimoy reprised his role with ___MASK5___ , who depicted a younger version of the character , existing within an alternate timeline . Both reprised their roles in the 2013 sequel " Star Trek Into Darkness " and Quinto reprised his role again in 2016 ' s " Star Trek Beyond ". WALL - E ( stylized with an interpunct as WALL · E ) is a 2008 American computer - animated comic science fiction film directed and co - written by ___MASK83___ , produced by ___MASK8___ , and co - written by Jim Reardon . It stars the voices of Ben Burtt , Elissa Knight , Jeff Garlin , Fred Willard , John Ratzenberger , Kathy Najimy , Sigourney Weaver and the PlainTalk system . It was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures , and was the overall ninth feature film produced by the company .