Star Trek: The Animated Series
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This is the further adventures of the Star Trek series in a half-hour animated form. This show basically continues the adventures of the original series (presumably in the fourth year of the five-year mission), but takes advantage of the unlimited special effects provided by animation to introduce more alien crewmen (the felinoid M’Ress and the tripedal Arex) as well as introduce more elaborate adventures like an underwater adventure, the miniaturization of the crew to 1 cm., and the appearance of a giant fire-breathing two-headed dragon. The show is currently not considered “canon” by Paramount and the folks associated with the various subsequent TV shows. However, elements of the animated series have been used in subsequent shows (Sarek refers to the events of “Yesteryear” in TNG’s “Reunification Pt. 1”) and the Enterprise-D’s holodeck seems to have been in part inspired by the holodeck we see in “Practical Joker”. Also, writers such as Peter David have used some elements from t
Release Date: September 8, 1973
Phase: Ended
Classification: TV-Y
Average Runtime: 28m
Network: NBC
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September 8, 1973
September 7, 1974
September 8, 1973
01. Beyond the Farthest Star
Kirk and crew beam aboard a massive derelict starship from an insect race, and learn that the ship's crew self-destructed rather than carrying a still-living malevolent entity to other worlds.
September 15, 1973
02. Yesteryear
An expedition through the Guardian of Forever inadvertently prevents Spock from traveling back to his childhood to save his younger self. Spock discovers that history has recorded that he died at age 7 undergoing the Kahs-wan ordeal. Spock travels back to 2237 to save his own life. Spock is successful in restoring the proper timeline; however, this time, his pet sehlat dies during the ordeal.
September 22, 1973
03. One of Our Planets Is Missing
An enormous space-going cloud entity feeds on the energy of whole planetary systems, and a Federation colony is next in its path. The Enterprise braves its antimatter interior and finds a way to stop it. Spock mind-melds with the entity and tells it that it is killing life, and he persuades it to return to its place of origin.
September 29, 1973
04. The Lorelei Signal
Investigating a sector of space where starships have disappeared every 27 years, the U.S.S. Enterprise male crew are attracted by a mysterious signal. Kirk beams down with a landing party and encounters a race of beautiful women who survive by drawing the energy from the male members of the ships that they have lured to their planet.
October 6, 1973
05. More Tribbles, More Troubles
The U.S.S. Enterprise again crosses paths with Cyrano Jones, who this time has tribbles that do not breed but instead grow to an enormous size. The tribbles are back and are causing problems for the Klingons.
October 13, 1973
06. The Survivor
Patrolling near the Neutral Zone, the U.S.S. Enterprise finds a ship and rescues Carter Winston, a Federation citizen, financier, and philanthropist missing for 5 years. However, Winston turns out to really be a Vendorian, an alien species that can transform its shape at will. He is also allied with the Romulans.
October 20, 1973
07. The Infinite Vulcan
On the recently-discovered planet Phylos, the U.S.S. Enterprise crew meets Dr. Keniclius, a human scientist who survived Earth's Eugenics Wars and now grown to giant proportions. The Phylosians are a once vast plant-based civilization that has been reduced to a few survivors. Led by Keniclius, the Phylosians abduct Spock so the doctor can make him into a giant clone with the intention of forcing peace on the galaxy.
October 27, 1973
08. The Magicks of Megas-Tu
The Enterprise travels to the center of the galaxy only to discover themselves sucked into a dimension where the laws of time and space no longer apply, and "magic" functions for those capable of grasping its fundamentals. Stopping at Megas-Tu, a planet where magic and witchcraft are the norm, the crew finds their guide is Lucien, who is Lucifer of Earth mythology.
November 3, 1973
09. Once Upon a Planet
The Enterprise travels to the shore leave planet for some well-deserved rest and relaxation. The planet can create organic androids based on the crew's imagination, but they soon discover that the planet has a hostile mind of its own. The "amusement park" planet's keeper is now dead and the untended machinery is constructing dangerous images from the crew members' thoughts.
November 10, 1973
10. Mudd's Passion
Harry Fenton Mudd is once again apprehended and incarcerated by the U.S.S. Enterprise crew, after trying to sell love crystals. He claims the love potion can cause any male and female to fall in love. He inadvertently releases it into the Enterprise's ventilation system and they discover that his claims are true. Mudd abducts Nurse Chapel and briefly escapes to a rocky planet in a stolen Enterprise Heavy shuttlecraft, but he is recaptured and sentenced to an indefinite period in rehabilitation therapy for violations of the Federation pharmaceutical code, including fraud, illegal drug manufacturing, swindling, and transport of a dangerous life-form (a Rigellian hypnoid).
November 17, 1973
11. The Terratin Incident
While exploring a burnt-out supernova, the U.S.S. Enterprise responds to an old-style distress signal containing the word "Terratin," and follow it to its source: an uninhabited planet about to shatter from internal stress. However, a mysterious beam strikes the ship and the crew begins to shrink... and shrink... On the planet, Kirk finds a miniature city called Terratin and soon discovers that it is a lost Earth colony that has mutated because of the supernova's radiation.
November 24, 1973
12. The Time Trap
The U.S.S.Enterprise is sent on a mission to explore a "Bermuda Triangle of Space," only to find itself and a Klingon battlecruiser trapped in a time warp after being caught in an ion storm. The two ships must cooperate before their only exit back to real space closes for good. This Delta Triangle is inhabited by other lost ships, many centuries old.
December 1, 1973
13. The Ambergris Element
While exploring the aquatic planet Argo, Kirk and Spock are lost at sea. They are later found... but have been transformed into water breathers. Now they must track down the planet's mysterious undersea inhabitants and find a cure, or be left to live as freaks in the Federation. The venom of a deadly sea snake is the only antidote to return them to their normal selves.
December 15, 1973
14. The Slaver Weapon
Spock, Sulu, and Uhura are delivering a stasis box from the extinct Slaver race on the shuttlecraft Copernicus. When they detect another box and follow its signal, they soon discover that a Kzinti privateer has set a trap. Capturing the Enterprise crew, they discover their box holds a rare find, a shape-shifting Slaver weapon. Now Spock and the others must keep the Kzinti from returning to their government with the weapon.
January 5, 1974
15. The Eye of the Beholder
Beaming down to a planet to search for the crew of the missing ship Ariel, the U.S.S. Enterprise crew is captured by a race of super-intelligent slug creatures and become part of a zoo collection. They find the missing crew also trapped as prisoners in the alien zoo. Now they must somehow establish communications with their evolved slug-like captors who think of them as primitive animals.
January 12, 1974
16. The Jihad
Kirk and Spock are chosen by a mysterious race to join an expedition of alien specialists to a "mad planet" and recover a missing artifact, the Soul of Alar, before the avian Skorr go on a galactic jihad.
September 7, 1974
01. The Pirates of Orion
Spock is stricken ill with a disease that is fatal to Vulcans. With time running out, the U.S.S.Enterprise must rendezvous with the S.S. Huron, a freighter carrying the only known antidote. However, Orion pirates hijack the shipment and Kirk must deal with them before Spock dies.
September 14, 1974
02. Bem
The U.S.S. Enterprise hosts Commander Ari bn Bem, an arrogant member of a neutral race from the newly-contacted planet Pandro. However, Bem endangers all of their lives when he conducts a test of suitability upon Kirk and Spock during an exploratory mission. This occurs on a planet of primitive natives under the guardianship of a noncorporeal being.
September 21, 1974
03. The Practical Joker
After avoiding a Romulan ambush by three of their warships, the U.S.S. Enterprise enters a strange energy cloud. The gaseous cloud affects the ship's computer turning it insane. With the crew at the mercy of the Enterprise's computer, it indulges in a series of increasingly aggressive practical jokes.
September 28, 1974
04. Albatross
The U.S.S. Enterprise goes to the planet Dramia to deliver medical supplies, only to have McCoy arrested and put on trial for deliberately spreading a plague that killed most of the population of the colony Dramia II. Nineteen years earlier, Dr. McCoy headed a mass-inoculation program there against Saurian virus. This disaster occurred after his team left the planet. Now Kirk must clear his friend's name before the doctor is executed.
October 5, 1974
05. How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Backtracking a mysterious alien probe, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a ship in the shape of a giant feathered serpent, which turns out to be Kukulkan, a god of ancient Mayan-Aztec legend. Its captain, Kukulkan, is actually a very long-lived benevolent entity who wants the humans to worship him just as the Mayans and Aztecs did. He insists on putting Kirk and others through a test to determine if they have grown sufficiently to receive his wisdom.
October 12, 1974
06. The Counter-Clock Incident
While en route to Babel transporting Commodore Robert April, the U.S.S. Enterprise's first captain, and Dr. Sarah April, his wife and ship's first doctor, the Enterprise inadvertently locks a tractor beam on a ship diving into the Beta Niobe Nova. Both ships plunge through the nova and into a bizarre parallel universe where everything is backward. With time flying in reverse, the crew begins to grow younger at an accelerated rate.
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Reviewer:
GenerationofSwine
Date:
January 10, 2023
Seriously, could the animation move any slower? It is almost like watching a still painting with an audio track. But... who cares, because it still delivers Star Trek stories. It still continues the story. It is still some pretty decent Star Trek. And, honestly, compared to modern cartoons, even with the snail paced animation it still looks leagues better than what is being made today. The only issue is that... it ended and it ended too soon. You really don't get many episodes despite how long it aired, and it felt as unfortunately abrupt as the Original Series. You are left wanting more and you have to wait for the movies to get it.
Rating:
8.0
