Tobar said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'm well aware that TOS used a lot of human aliens. My point, though, is that this can be excused because of budgetary/technological limitations of the time; I see no similar reasons for why most of the aliens on TNG looked the way they did.

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TNG had the same budgetary and technological restrictions that TOS faced. TNG had a bigger budget but it was by no means unlimited. Creating complicated non-humanoid aliens for one-off episodes weekly was and is highly impractical. CGI was still in its infancy at the time so there was no out there either.

And this is leaving out the almost impossible deadlines they faced for every episode. You can cheat sets quickly but creature effects are something else entirely.

Yes exactly. Tng had limits on it's budget and for the most part wasn't able to use CGI. I would like to see anyone who complains about TNG being lazy produce completely non human looking aliens every week,without CG and without blowing a budget or production time line.

As for the Star Trek 6 episode of TNG that was Unification,it aired a few months before the movie came out and mentioned events from the movie in order to promote it. The whole idea of having Spock on TNG as a tie in came from Paramount not the writers or producers of TNG.