American cinematographer who photographed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for director Nicholas Meyer, giving the film its darker, more nautical look.
Gayne Rescher was an American director of photography with a long career in features and television films.
He photographed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in 1981 and 1982. Working with Nicholas Meyer and the production designer Joseph R. Jennings on a budget far below that of the first film, he lit the redressed Enterprise bridge and the cramped Reliant sets in lower, warmer light, in keeping with Meyer's wish for the atmosphere of a naval adventure.
The battle in the Mutara Nebula and the death of Spock in the engine room are among the sequences shot under his direction of photography.