Gene Roddenberry's team shot the first pilot episode for "Star Trek" back in 1964. The Anderson Company, which was part of Desilu, the production company, was responsible for the visual and optical effects for both pilot episodes as well as the following episodes. However, the Anderson Company was already hopelessly overwhelmed when editing the effects for the first regularly filmed episode, "The Corbomite Maneuver". At the time, nobody was prepared for the mass of visual effects that a weekly science fiction series would entail. Before Star Trek there was "Lost in Space" and "Buck Rogers", but here you were surprised if you didn't see the strings on which a model was hanging. The quality standards for Star Trek were different. Star Trek was also the first science fiction series to be shot in colour, which significantly increased the effort and problems involved. What's more, the cinema was just showing what science fiction could look like: "The Time Machine" from 1960 or "Fantastic ...
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