Unlocking the Cut (5:10) Editors Mary Jo Markey and Maryann Brandon get footage from the set withing 24 hours of the first day of shooting, so they (along with their team of assistant editors) have to jump into their jobs right away when production begins. This piece highlights two distinct changes that occurred between shooting and editing. Originally, Kirk is standing over Spock as Pike dies, and he watches his mentor die. By rearranging it so that Pike dies while Kirk is out of the room, the audience is more closely aligned with Kirk’s state of shock when Pike’s fate is revealed. It’s also revealed that the bar-room scene – where Pike and Kirk talk over drinks – was shot after primary production on the film had concluded. The editors determined that an additional scene was needed between Pike and Kirk to balance out the dressing-down in the Admiral’s office, so the Bad Robot team built the set right at their studio and filmed it to fill that hole in the story. The feature also follows Zoe Saldana (Uhura) to the Bad Robot audio stage, where she is shown recording ADR dialogue for her Klingon language lines on Kronos. . . .