Daily Inspiration Quote by Gil Gerard

There is a sly demystification baked into Gil Gerard's recollection: the stuff that looked futuristic and seamless on TV was, on set, a guy hitting his marks in front of a giant nothing. The line about ship models being "extremely expensive to make" isn’t just trivia; it’s a reminder that spectacle has always been an accounting problem as much as an artistic one. Before CGI became a default setting, science fiction had to literally build its dreams, and every cool shot came with a price tag, a crew, and a lot of fragile miniature engineering.

The offhand "we used to do our shots in front of a blue screen" carries the actor’s slightly bemused pragmatism. He’s not waxing poetic about imagination; he’s describing a workflow. That groundedness is the point. It undercuts the myth that genre TV is pure escapism produced by pure inspiration. It’s labor, planning, and compromise, dressed up as interstellar wonder.

Context matters: Gerard is speaking from a transitional era when practical effects and early compositing were the engine of sci-fi television. His emphasis on "after" signals how much of performance was an act of faith. Actors had to sell awe and urgency to an empty stage, trusting that postproduction would complete the illusion. The subtext is respect for the invisible craftspeople and a quiet pride in making something big with limited tools - and limited budgets - long before audiences started taking digital magic for granted.