Hardcore Trek fans are your base audience.
They should be the ones that producers strive to satisfy first.
the kind of hard core that cares about that kind of thing probably are about a thousand of so.
i have heard from so many people who have been trek fans who wondered just what was akiraprise and why all the fuss.
You will have to count me in that group. I post on ST forums, I have all the DVD's except Voyager, and I have no idea what akiraprise is or why the fuss.
My guess is when you are creating a show on a budget, use any previous work you can that is not too obvious and stretch out those "effects budget" dollars.