One of Gene Rodenbury's smartest moves in the original series was writing for minimal special effects. He couldn't afford to show the Enterprise landing, so he wrote in the Transporter. This resulted in the creation of a world which had a truly futuristic look and feel.
Now that good special effects are inexpensive to create, it easier to show more detail in a futuristic world. But the result of more detail seems to be a lower tech look and feel. For example, whose got the higher tech, STTOS or Babelyon 5?
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One of Gene Rodenbury's smartest moves in the original series was writing for minimal special effects. He couldn't afford to show the Enterprise landing, so he wrote in the Transporter. This resulted in the creation of a world which had a truly futuristic look and feel. Now that good special effects are inexpensive to create, it easier to show more detail in a futuristic world. But the result of more detail seems to be a lower tech look and feel. For example, whose got the higher tech, STTOS or Babelyon 5?