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	Dan Curry, visual effects producer: "Well, Basics was really a great episode to work on. One of the fun things about it was we shot on location in Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California, and Alabama Hills was the scene for such classics as 'Gunga Din', 'King Of The Khyber Rifles', half the Westerns ever made were out there, and so it was almost like going on to an archaeological expedition. We found the footings for the elephant bridge from 'Gunga Din'."
	Dan Curry: "And we poked around and said "where's the lava going to be?" and we found a dry stream bed. So Rick Kolbe and I kind of climbed down and: "Ok, we're going to have Chakotay jump over here, and we can have the stranded Neolithic woman surrounded by deadly lava on that rock." And so it was kind of a little mental exercise trying to figure out what would we see if it were there but it's not really there now."
	Dan Curry: "The biggest challenge on Basics was the lava. So we found some 16 millimeter footage of real lava taken from a lot of different angles in Hawaii, and steadied it and tweaked it and skewed it into the perspective that we wanted, and then added a lot of liquid nitrogen smoke to make it look hot and steamy, and traced where it would be running in the dry stream beds. And it worked out real well because it was real lava, and therefore it gave a greater sense of reality than a lot of the cinematic lava we've seen in the past."
	From Janet's Star Trek Voyager Website