A book authorized by CBS about the animated series is coming in September. Details here: http://trekcore.com/blog/2019/03/official-star-trek-animated-series-book-announced/
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Official Animated Series Book Coming
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I need this in my life.
Animation by Filmation and Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation have some good information on TAS and its participants, but even they were not comprehensive, so the idea of this new book is absolutely necessary to complete the history of this franchise.
Its historical accuracy remains to be seen.
One thing I would like to see included is a review of Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Logs adaptations of TAS, and any references to 1970s merchandise that was based on TAS--
...or "inspired by" the look of TAS, such as this line of puzzles--
Its historical accuracy remains to be seen.
One thing I would like to see included is a review of Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Logs adaptations of TAS, and any references to 1970s merchandise that was based on TAS--
...or "inspired by" the look of TAS, such as this line of puzzles--
Around the same time that Alan Dean Foster was novelizing the Animated Series he wrote 7 Star Trek Story Records for the Peter Pan children's record label. I would like to hear more about how these stories came about. The stories are very similar to TAS. They are like a continuation of TAS. I would hope that these episodes are explored in the book.
I love these puzzles, posted here and in the other thread. Great stuff. 
It is about time.
I've always loved the TAS theme and the show's incidental music. Which reminds me... I need to get the soundtrack of that.
NOoooooooooooo!
Speaking of the animated series, here's what Cinefantastique had to say about it:
Cinefantastique, Vol.3, No.4, Winter 1974, page 33.
Fantastique Video
STAR TREK An NBC Weekly Series. Saturday
morning. Premier 9 8 73. 25 minutes. In Col-
or Produced by Lou Scheimer. Norm Prescott
Filmation Associates. Directed by Hal Suther-
land Based on the television series created by
Gene Roddenberry Story editor and associate
producer. D. C. Fontana With the voiced of-
William Shatner. Leonard Nimoy. De Forest Kel
ley. James Doohan. Nichelle Nichols.
The Star Trek universe, which has gathered
an enormous following.i s recreated in accurate
detail by this cartoon series aimed at the Satur-
day morning kiddie audience. Thematically and
conceptually, the cartoons achieve a level equal
to that of the original series, but totally gone is
the drama and human interest that made the live
action series so captivating at times. In the ani-
mated version, all of the characters are as
wooden-faced and expressionless as the emotion-
less Mr. Spock. Fascinating? No.
Primarily at fault is the show's technique of
cartoon animation which keeps all movement to a
minimum We get static scenes of Kirk, Spock.
McCoy and other crew members talking to each
other, with only their lips moving and their eyes
blinking away. Occasionally, the animators will
allow Spock to raise an eyebrow, which in this
show constitutes a highpoint in visual excitement.
The static frames are imaginatively, often intri-
cately drawn and composed, and would certain-
ly suffice the comic-book medium, but there is
no point to filming them.
The show has been touted as stimulating view-
ing for the tots, and of interest to adults as well.
While true for those preoccupied in the study of
the details which define the Star Trek universe,
most, including the kids, will find It a terrible
bore.
Frederick S. Clark
Fantastique Video
STAR TREK An NBC Weekly Series. Saturday
morning. Premier 9 8 73. 25 minutes. In Col-
or Produced by Lou Scheimer. Norm Prescott
Filmation Associates. Directed by Hal Suther-
land Based on the television series created by
Gene Roddenberry Story editor and associate
producer. D. C. Fontana With the voiced of-
William Shatner. Leonard Nimoy. De Forest Kel
ley. James Doohan. Nichelle Nichols.
The Star Trek universe, which has gathered
an enormous following.i s recreated in accurate
detail by this cartoon series aimed at the Satur-
day morning kiddie audience. Thematically and
conceptually, the cartoons achieve a level equal
to that of the original series, but totally gone is
the drama and human interest that made the live
action series so captivating at times. In the ani-
mated version, all of the characters are as
wooden-faced and expressionless as the emotion-
less Mr. Spock. Fascinating? No.
Primarily at fault is the show's technique of
cartoon animation which keeps all movement to a
minimum We get static scenes of Kirk, Spock.
McCoy and other crew members talking to each
other, with only their lips moving and their eyes
blinking away. Occasionally, the animators will
allow Spock to raise an eyebrow, which in this
show constitutes a highpoint in visual excitement.
The static frames are imaginatively, often intri-
cately drawn and composed, and would certain-
ly suffice the comic-book medium, but there is
no point to filming them.
The show has been touted as stimulating view-
ing for the tots, and of interest to adults as well.
While true for those preoccupied in the study of
the details which define the Star Trek universe,
most, including the kids, will find It a terrible
bore.
Frederick S. Clark
I can only assume that reviewer didn't watch a lot of Saturday morning cartoons, since TAS didn't look any worse than its contemporaries. Speaking as someone who actually was a small child at the time, I found TAS quite stimulating.
Yes, and my point is that that was the wrong comparison to make, because he was talking about how he believed children would react to the show -- "most, including the kids, will find it a terrible bore." And since I actually was one of the kids whose tastes he was making glib assumptions about, I can state with assurance that he was wrong about me and my age cohort. We did not find TAS a bore, because its animation and production values were no worse than any of the other Saturday morning shows we watched religiously. He obviously didn't watch enough cartoons to be aware of that, and so he made an uninformed, incorrect assumption about how children (myself included) would perceive the show.
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