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star trek into darkness brings beloved characters from the original 1960s TV series back to the silver screen but what really brings this movie to life are the sound effects as created by sound designer ben burtt everything is imaginary the the places the vehicles the weapons the creatures whatever there might be all of these things will need sounds to be created after the fact after the film has been shot Bert says the average feature-length film has 400 to 500 different sound effects this new Star Trek movie over 1500 I spent a tremendous amount of time doing weapons in this film JJ Abrams was particularly demanding in terms of wanting these weapons to be distinct and different here's like a dog mixed with a rocket some of the sounds for uses are collected in the field bubbling lava was really dry ice tossed into a stream and sounds aboard the enterprise came from a good old-fashioned vacuum cleaner I got some star front wood cut it up and and it would squeal as it went through the vacuum cleaner input and a lot of that's used for the hatches opening and closing an image in the ship Burt has designed a sound for every single Star Wars film ET in the entire Indiana Jones series but as a longtime Star Trek fan working on this movie was a dream come true which I love for Star Trek they kept us going that we could just look on the screen that every war was sparking search and all the characters we loved and we could vicariously be part of their adventure an incredible adventure into a world of imaginary sound effects in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News