Remember Galactica and Buck Rodgers? Even around 1980 or so the CGI was just not there in quality yet at an affordable price compared to a few years later. Why the movie production people constantly go away from what worked I do not understand? The original bridge of the original Enterprise was the masterpiece. Modernizing it from its 1960's look would be simple and it could look much the same.LICK ME Moron, you don't know shit. Not about a damn thing you ever write. Not only was the 1970s a herald to a plethora or works you apparently don't know JACK about (which I own), not only to a ground-breaking Star Trek cartoon
Have you ever watched the Animated Series. "Oh my God, a Giant Spock!!!!" It was fucking silly.
William Shatner said he used to record his lines when he was on the Shitter... which seems appropriate.
but also the preamble to the release of a new Star Trek II TV series which dragged on for years due to contract disagreements, culminating in the release of the first Star Trek movie,
Point was, no one was interested in a second star trek series OR a movie until Star Wars showed there was money to be made. They pissed away a lot of money on the Motionless Picture, which was boring, none of the actors looked like they gave a fuck. What saved Star Trek was that some people who knew what they were doing ignored Roddenberry and made the Wrath of Khan on a budget. And they thought that was going to be the end of it until it made a shitload of money and they had to bring Spock back to life.
No one ever would have had the courage to film Star Wars and invest that kind of capital if not for the interest created by Star Trek over the decade preceding that.
Quit the contrary... Lucas had to fight a lot harder than Roddenberry did to get his vision on screen. Lucas is famous for having bucked the Studio system, creating a whole new era of independent production companies that changed the face of film.