[Note: The story was refashioned in director Robert Wise""s and Jerome Robbins""West Side Story (1961)as a tragic tale of conflict between two warring rival NYC gangs, with Richard Beymer (as Tony) and Natalie Wood (as Maria).In another corridor next to the hangar holding theMillennium Falcon, Kenobi came upon the dark figure of Darth Vader, who acknowledged Ben as his former master.With the Galactic Republic in turmoil, a Separatist movement of thousands of systems (threatening to secede from the Republic) was being led by renegade ex-Jedi Master Count Dooku (Christopher Lee), aka Sith Lord Darth Tyranus.Many forget that Hattie McDaniel and other black cast members were not allowed to attend the premiere of the film in racially-segregated Atlanta in mid-December 1939.The photons were collected from theUSS Enterpriseaircraft carrier, and the holding tank Plexiglass aquarium walls for the whales were constructed by the Plexicorp company (in exchange for the formula for "transparent aluminum") and transported by helicopter to the park; however, Chekov was pursued and captured by Marines after successfully completing his mission of collecting photons - but then injured and taken to Mercy Hospital in critical condition ("not expected to survive"), necessitating his rescue and healing by McCoy and others.