It was quite cheesy. But the effects drastically improve a few episodes later. Star Trek was done with a VERY small budget. In fact, The Doomsday Machine, a VERY popular episode was come up with because they needed a story that could be used with just ships and sets used from the Enterprise. The Constellation, was indeed nothing but a burnt up AMC model kit. LOLOLOL As a FIREMAN, I like to tell people that I got busted playing with fire for the first time by TRYING to burn up my Brother's old Enterprise model to make it look like the USS Constellation.