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I am sorry but I have trouble understanding what you were trying to say.
In the early nineties a single transformation shot of Odo cost at least 10.000$ depending on the complexity maybe even more. But even more it took weeks to complete. Even then it was just not possible to do this for every episode. In the 60s such an effect would have been nearly impossible to create because technology wasn't ready yet.
There were of course other effects and maybe the use of puppets would have been possible (think of Yoda in Star Wars or some decades later ALF on TV), but it would have limited the sets or required specialized construction. The living room set for ALF was raised up so the puppeteer playing ALF could go under the floor and play the puppet for closeups when the use of a costume was not possible.
Special effects like the ones you are thinking of were expensive - the absence or novelty of computer generated imagery made these time consuming and incredibly complicated.
No I obviously was not thinking the ‘90s technology was available; talk confusing writing.
I was thinking, since all I have heard was it is too expensive, that they should just use The ‘60s’ technology to do it. This might sound interesting, considering I was talking about using ‘60s’ technology , but the puppets idea seems childish or is just outdated.
Also remember ‘Deep Space 9’ was on a brandnew channel-UPN, that ran out of resources given to the series, when it did not high big with viewers, source from the documentary’The Center Seat’. Had the huge & established channel taken on the series, then expenses you mentioned might not been an issue at all.
Not a big deal, but in curious when you think both of those were made, Alf was 9 years after a new hope, and 3 after return of the Jedi.
I was referring to the original Star Trek, but you're right my phrasing was wrong.
Ohhhh yes, that makes perfect sense, thanks!