John Dykstra(I)

For La guerre des étoiles (1977) he designed and built the first computer-controlled motion control system. This system was dubbed the "Dykstraflex."

[on becoming a producer on Battlestar Galactica (1978)] It all boils down to who actually does the work, because the titles don't really mean a thing, other than that you can drive your car on the lot, because the producers can drive and everybody else has to have a Teamster.