I'll split that hair and say "aired episodes".
Didn't they finally air The Cage in the 80s?
Favorite TAS episodes not named Yesteryear
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Didn't they finally air The Cage in the 80s?
Yes, in 1988, both to debut the full-color reconstruction of the pilot (after the previous 1986 home-video release of the B&W/color version) and to make up for half of the four-episode shortfall in TNG's season-2 syndication package due to the '88 writers' strike.
First post. At half a century old have finally embraced my life-long Classic Star Trek nerdiness. Favorite animated episode, regardless of Yesteryear, is Beyond the Farthest Star. Besides the cool title, harkening back to my childhood and what might have been my favorite E.R. Burroughs book, I love the "haunted ancient derelict (very) alien spaceship" story line. I always felt sorry for the abandoned alien consciousness at the end, though it was asking for it's fate. In the right hands would have made a good movie; not so much a summer popcorn movie, but a Silent Running or Solaris type of cerebral sci-fi movie.
Anyway, have always been fond of TAS. As a kid, I thought it stranger and more mysterious than the regular Star Trek.
Anyway, have always been fond of TAS. As a kid, I thought it stranger and more mysterious than the regular Star Trek.
Time Trap because it featured a Gorn in the background apart from a Klingon warship and crew! 
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I'm going to finally add my favorite not named "Yesteryear" and it would have to be "Beyond The Farthest Star". As an original Trekker who'd seen the series on NBC and slavishly watched the episodes in syndication, AND attended the odd convention here and there in the early '70s, it was a rather big deal for STAR TREK to be back on network TV, even if it was a Saturday morning cartoon.
We didn't have any way of recording video, so to capture this momentous occurrence, I taped the audio onto reel-to-reel tape (like so many other fans might have done). The very first episode broadcast was "Beyond The Farthest Star" and as soon as it was over, I rewound the tape and played it all over again - and again - and again. It was rather interesting to hear the audio WITHOUT the video, as the voices were all familiar, and it was easy to use the mind's eye to visualize the episode as live action.
Happy memories - good stuff.
We didn't have any way of recording video, so to capture this momentous occurrence, I taped the audio onto reel-to-reel tape (like so many other fans might have done). The very first episode broadcast was "Beyond The Farthest Star" and as soon as it was over, I rewound the tape and played it all over again - and again - and again. It was rather interesting to hear the audio WITHOUT the video, as the voices were all familiar, and it was easy to use the mind's eye to visualize the episode as live action.
Happy memories - good stuff.
I liked 'The Terratin Incident' and 'Slaver weapon'. I also got a kick out of 'The Practical Joker'.
I liked 'Jihad'. It had action, adventure and intrigue.
Was that the first episode featuring the Phoenix bird. Really liked what TAS was able to do with the alien races the crew encountered.
Yes. He turned out to be a traitor to the Federation.
Spoilers!
Jihad is probably a top five five for me. And we saw a bird person previously on Yesteryear. A lot happens in those twenty five minutes!
Which are?
Apparently it was "How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth" and "The Counterclock Incident". I hadn't see either in many years, and thoroughly enjoyed them both.
Not having seen most animated Trek in many years (and never as many times as TOS or TNG episodes for example), it is "fresher" to me than other incarnations of Trek.
Not having seen most animated Trek in many years (and never as many times as TOS or TNG episodes for example), it is "fresher" to me than other incarnations of Trek.
I think TAS is underrated. There are some very good Trek stories in that series, if one can accept the shoddy animation.
My two favorite episodes are The Time Trap, which has such a clever premise, and The Magicks of Megas-tu, which is an incredibly ballsy story for a Saturday morning cartoon. There are quite a few gems in TAS.
My two favorite episodes are The Time Trap, which has such a clever premise, and The Magicks of Megas-tu, which is an incredibly ballsy story for a Saturday morning cartoon. There are quite a few gems in TAS.
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