12 Fascinating facts about Star Trek the animated series

[Beard_vs_Geek]

That article was actually really informative as a person who never really got into the animated series thanks for sharing it.

 

[TrekMD]

I enjoyed watching TAS when it first aired and I have the full series in BD now. It was always fun to watch and it certainly had some really good episodes and even established important facts about some of the characters. One of my favorite episodes to this day is "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth." Though I thought the ending was rather sad and unfortunate.

I was familiar with most of these 12 facts but still a nice read. I'm so glad they didn't do #2!

 

[publiusr]

This character:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Demos
--was voiced by Scheimer --but...so help me....it sounds like Peter Coyote

 

[Lance]

Oh I am SO glad they did not do #2. Even as a kid I was offended by cartoons that just HAD to include the stupid kid sidekick or the stupid anthropomorphic animal sidekick. I have so much more respect for the show that they played it straight and respected my intelligence (even as a kid) rather than insulting it.

Totally. One of the things that makes TAS stand out among the many other kiddie-cartoon-versions-of-live-action-tv-shows is that, mercifully, somebody had enough respect for the concept to make it as close as humanly possible to the original. Except in animated form. About the only other show of vintage that I think managed that in good faith was The Real Ghostbusters, and even that sold out by turning Slimer into a 'cute cartoon buddy '.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Oh I am SO glad they did not do #2.

TAS cadets by Ian McLean, on Flickr
From one of the proposals for an animated "Star Trek" before the one we actually got from Filmation. And Scotty gets his TMP moustache before TMP. In this version, he was leading the team of Starfleet kid-ets.


Robert and Sarah April by Ian McLean, on Flickr

As featured under the diecut cover of the novel "Final Frontier", the comic "Early Voyages" and Roddenberry as April in the ST Encyclopedia.

Years later, when the matter was settled, "nods" to the 1973 cartoon started to slip into the filmed material

The first reappearance of TAS from limbo was a brief mention of the Phylosians by Jeri Taylor in her novelization of "TNG: Unification", coincidentally(?), the episodes that have a credit farewelling Roddenberry, who had just passed away.

True, but if so, how could Paramount Home Video release TAS in 1989 on video (with the box title: "The Animate Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek" no less)? Just wondering...

Because the series was first released on VHS in UK in 1985, before Filmation was being sold off in 1989. And the paperwork for the US tapes was probably signed in late 1988, just before the Filmation sell-off.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Animated_Series_(VHS)

 

[publiusr]

Scotty gets his TMP moustache before TMP. In this version, he was leading the team of Starfleet kid-ets.

Then too
http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/Canarvin_Big.jpg

 

[Vorpal_Blade]

I am relieved they didn't do Number 2. I remember seeing that series Space Academy when it aired and did not find it nearly as satisfying as TAS.

 

[ironnerd]

So it seems yesterday you started three threads with little or nothing more than a link.

I've talked to you about this before. If you're going to start a thread, it should be a discussion thread, not just a list or a link. What about these twelve fascinating facts? Do you agree? Disagree? Did they miss one?

In the future, put some thought into the discussion you want to start. Flesh out the link with ideas and/or questions. Otherwise, it's going to be considered spamming.

-No Spamming. You can't post the same thing multiple times on the board, or post the same thing over and over in a certain thread or forum, or continuously make posts that have no real content or relevance to what is being discussed. Spamming can even just be posting too much--as a general rule, don't post more than two or three threads in a forum within a reasonable length of time. Just posting stuff like "Okay, " or "I agree!" could be spamming. Contribute to a discussion; don't just build post count

Thanks

Y'see. This is what good moderation looks like. Nice to see (obviously I have recently had issues with other moderators - in different forums).

 

[GeekFilter]

TAS may be canon again, but the latest Star Trek Encyclopedia still doesn't reference it!

That was by request of Roddenberry for the first iteration and Mike and Denise said they would honor that request on all versions of the encyclopedia. Plus it's less work for them :-)