TAS Thougths!

[Herbert]

I agree that contemporary CG animation would be incongruous with the audio. I've always thought there was a certain "tinniness," for lack of a more precise descriptive word. But with that early '70s animation, it's not too hard to overlook... er, "overlisten?".

Kor

Yeah, the voice sounds would have done well to have been a bit .... woodier

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I'm curious, what do others think of the show?

As intended, TAS was a continuation of TOS, and I've always considered it the most faithful ST production after TOS, with some of the TOS movies coming in second place. Filmation and the TOS cast and crew created a one-of-a-kind series, which was the far and away best North American animated show of the 1970s. Only Filmation's Flash Gordon series approached that kind of quality and dedication to the source material.

 

[mb22]

As intended, TAS was a continuation of TOS, and I've always considered it the most faithful ST production after TOS, with some of the TOS movies coming in second place. Filmation and the TOS cast and crew created a one-of-a-kind series, which was the far and away best North American animated show of the 1970s. Only Filmation's Flash Gordon series approached that kind of quality and dedication to the source material.

Agreed, but the the bar was set pretty low during that time.

 

[Forbin]

Ya know, personally, I wouldn't mind seeing one episode completely redone in CGI, using the original audio track, just to see what it would be like. Say, Yesteryear.

 

[BK613]

Ya know, personally, I wouldn't mind seeing one episode completely redone in CGI, using the original audio track, just to see what it would be like. Say, Yesteryear.

I agree, though I would pick something that live action Trek hadn't borrowed from so much, like The Jihad.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

I'm afraid "Yesteryear" never did sit well with me.

I was annoyed by the notion that logical Vulcans and their children
would be a bunch of bigoted bullies. Or that Spock, having grown up as the victim of this, would turn out to be as bigoted against humans as he was in the show.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I first saw TAS in glorious b/w first-run on Saturday morning TV in Australia. I certainly didn't see every episode, but I vividly remember "Yesteryear", "The Jihad" and "Albatross", with its Auroral Plague that turned the bridge crew alternating colours - or, at least, shades of grey on our TV. I also would have seen "More Tribbles, More Troubles" before "The Trouble With Tribbles".

Colour TV arrived in March 1975. Not long after, my Dad bought us a colour TV. TAS came to weekday morning TV, one episode per day in "The Super Flying Fun Show". I was determined to catch "the one with the Auroral Plague", so we could enjoy the colours. And pink tribbles?

I must say I didn't really appreciate Lieutenants Arex (even though he changed colours in "Albatross") and M'Ress until reading the Ballantine/Del Rey "Logs" in 1980. By then, TAS had not been on the air for years, so playing catchup was hard. Some episodes were impossible to find, especially "The Slaver Weapon" - I tracked down an off-air VHS copy, but it had no ending! The day I realised that View-Master's "Mr. Spock's Time Trek" reels retold the story of "Yesteryear" in 3D was a triumph!

 

[Donald G]

I was 5-6 when the show first ran. I loved it. When I played with my Mego action figures, I hummed this show's background music. There is a picture of me in the park with my mom and sister and I am doing a "Kirk running" pose. You know, when he ran toward the screen with his arm across his chest. I think I remember more of the animated series from that period than the live action. At no point did the limited animation bother me or even register at all. It was Star Trek. It still is. Much like the original series, it doesn't require updating. It wouldn't change anything important anyway.

I was seven to nine when TAS aired and the limited animation didn't bother me? Why not? Because every other contemporary animated show of the seventies had limited animation.

For adventure shows, I generally preferred the look of Filmation in comparison to Hanna-Barbera. I didn't care much for the Filmation house styles for their alleged comedies.

DePatie-Freling and, later, Ruby-Spears, came down a little farther on my list.

Towards the bottom was Dick Calvert Productions' EMERGENCY +4, which was IIRC originally TAS's lead-in on NBC until a mid-season schedule change moved TAS to a late morning timeslot. TAS looks like Michelangelo compared to E+4.

 

[PCz911]

Loved it. And the Alan dean foster novelizations I read and re read until they fell apart. Found a set on eBay and purchased them. Also obviously picked up the discs for tas

 

[Maurice]

Towards the bottom was Dick Calvert Productions' EMERGENCY +4, which was IIRC originally TAS's lead-in on NBC until a mid-season schedule change moved TAS to a late morning timeslot. TAS looks like Michelangelo compared to E+4.

Glares in cartoon Randolph Mantooth.

 

[publiusr]

There was a tornado episode and a Royal Bugatti in an episode or two of that wasn’t there? (From memory only)

 

[Neopeius]

I've told this story before, but it's one of my favorites:

In 1978, I was four years old. Star Trek was in the air I breathed as my brothers loved it, they had the Technical Manual and the Concordance, a lot of the model kits and toys.

That summer, my brother was off in Israel on Aliyah so I was in his bedroom watching his little black and white TV in the middle of the night. I remember watching an episode of the 60s show Tarzan (I didn't know the age of it back then). Then there was a bumper ad: "Stay tuned for Star Trek!" with a picture of the Enterprise.

Well, I got excited because I knew Star Trek was something cool, though I'd never seen a whole episode (that wouldn't be until 1980 and The Empath). Moments later, Star Trek came on...

AND IT WAS A CARTOON!!!!!

I can't tell you how amazing that felt, to have a Star Trek CARTOON! It was like, they had decided to make a version just for me.

The episode was Time Trap, and I've been a fan of TAS ever since.

 

[Phoenix219]

I've always wanted (someone) to fanedit TAS to use the TOS sound effects, musical cues and main themes.....

 

[F. King Daniel]

I really hope they do a Lower Decks crossover, in the vein of "Trials and Tribble-ations", inserting them into the background of a TAS episode.

 

[Maurice]

I've always wanted (someone) to fanedit TAS to use the TOS sound effects, musical cues and main themes.....

The challenge there is trying to isolate the dialog tracks from everything else.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

I've always wanted (someone) to fanedit TAS to use the TOS sound effects, musical cues and main themes.....

Seems to me that the TAS Soundtrack music is up on YouTube,
and there is/was a Star Trek Sound Effects CD out that had both TOS and TAS Sound effects.

 

[Maurice]

I really hope they do a Lower Decks crossover, in the vein of "Trials and Tribble-ations", inserting them into the background of a TAS episode.

They’d either have to redo the Filmation scenes in the LD style or have to create all new puppets for the LD characters to fit the Filmation style…or it would be a visual trainwreck.

 

[Kor]

I think the incongruity of LD and TAS designs being in the same scene could add to the humor.

Kor

 

[johnnybear]

I thought it was a great series. Although the colour mistakes were annoying the biggest problem was when Kirk would be calling Bones in Sick Bay and they would show a scene with McCoy standing right next to him!!!
JB

 

[Noname Given]

I thought it was a great series. Although the colour mistakes were annoying the biggest problem was when Kirk would be calling Bones in Sick Bay and they would show a scene with McCoy standing right next to him!!!
JB

The sometimes random off angle background plates bothered me even when I was a 10-year-old watching the show.