How.Vulcans.Were.Viewed.Back.Then.In.TOS.And.TAS.
My pleasure.
Best Episode of TAS
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My pleasure.
It's a little ironic that for all the talking about animation expanding what they could show and pull off -- the best of it was just basic Trek storytelling. The writers keep saying that they didn't think of it as a cartoon, but as simply Trek. But junk like Counter Clock Incident is pure gimic and has no heart. Except the little bit from the April's. In Terratin the aliens shrunk the crew to better communicate with them?
No, the writer thought it would be cool to see them climbing around the control panels.
I think the writers should have been told, "tell regular Trek stories -- don't pander to the fact the animation can show anything."
In that aspect some writers were clearly writing down to the Saturday morning demographic.
No, the writer thought it would be cool to see them climbing around the control panels.
I think the writers should have been told, "tell regular Trek stories -- don't pander to the fact the animation can show anything."
In that aspect some writers were clearly writing down to the Saturday morning demographic.
But you yourself called these episodes "non canon". If anything has no bearing it's these non canon episodes. The battle between the canons is an endless conflict because no side really has any definitive argument to offer.
I give up.
You win.
You win.
Yeah, it's definitely not out of left field. And actually adds a certain feeling of tragedy. But it's still too kiddish to be taken seriously. Granted, this is TAS so that's to be expected.
Well, you have to keep in mind that TAS is for children. There's that goofy aspect to pretty much all stories that you never quite find in TOS not even in stories like Spock's Brain (which is I admit very close to being cartoonish).
I think that assuming that "Spock's Brain" is supposed to be a comedy, is doing it a favor.
The writers of Enterprise didn't understand or actually accept the pacifity of the people of Vulcan, that or they hadn't done their homework on the famous alien race!
JB
Or maybe they were addressing the complaints that Trek aliens were one-dimensional, cookie cutter characters.
Why couldn't Vulcan be a planet of peace and logic? They weren't perfect we know that and their ancestors nearly destroyed the planet that or they became Romulans and left the place! TOS states that their aggression was many centuries ago and yet the ENT writers didn't seem to get that!
JB
JB
ENT didn't retcon ANYTHING with respect to Vulcans. They were major pricks in TOS, Just watch Amok Time and Journey to Babel. ENT did the Vulcans as they were. Arrogant and looking down on everyone else because every race was too emotional for them.
They fleshed them out.
Yesteryear.
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