zombie84 said:

He turned a then-serious sci-fi intellectual series into an outright contemporary comedy in VH.

Nimoy directed IV. Meyer was only one of a number of screen writers, and VH is far from a typical Meyer film.

I generally agree with you though that Meyer's take on Star Trek was a great deal different from Roddenbery's vision. While the Enterprise had always been structured in terms of hierarchy as a naval ship, the feel of the ship was markedly more militaristic in Meyer's films. Roddenberry considered human society in the future to have evolved beyond prejudice and disliked what Meyer had done with VI.