There were no opening credits - making it thefourthconsecutive Star Trek film to not list the cast at the start of the film.Cal joined the couple and then met up with his father at an icehouse, where he was negotiating to purchase a refrigerated container "to freeze the vegetables with.The filming was so controversial and threatening that it couldn't be shot in he Deep South, so the sets were recreated in various small towns in two states: Illinois (Sparta, Freeburg, and Belleville) and Tennessee (in the cotton-growing community of Dyersburg, for the plantation and greenhouse scenes)." When he was introduced o Sophia, he praised her beauty:Although for a long time we've heard a great deal about your beauty, Your Highness, I must confess, I was not quite prepared to see such a vision of loveliness...This guy is a wreckin' machine and he's hungry." And then he told Rocky: "You ain't been hungry since you won that belt." In his ten title defenses, Mickey admitted that all the fighters were "hand-picked," good fighters but not "killers," and he explained why - he had been protecting Rocky: "Because the beating that you got from Apollo should have killed you, kid.