Small shout-out to the animated 'novelizations'

[Therin of Andor]

I really liked the original stuff squeezed in between TAS episodes, like Kirk having a Klingon roomie at the academy.

As ADF mentions in the serialised essay prefacing the trade paperback reprints of the "Logs", when he had to suddenly expand "Log 7" from one episode, but still create a book of the same length as the previous six Logs (which had all contained three episode adaptations), he dug through his filing cabinet and retrieved a spec "Star Trek" script he had written, just in case TOS had gone into a fourth season.

Looking at my copy of Log Seven, I see that my young self actually coined my own title for the followup adventure to "The Counter-Clock Incident." I called it "The Wanderers of Gypsy," which is kind of clumsy in retrospect.

After seeing the anecdote about the script in the trade reprint, I communicated with ADF (via a friend attending a US convention, who relayed my question) about this first Kumara-the-Klingon-roomie script, but sadly he no long remembers the title of his unfilmed double-episode script, and no longer has a copy. But the story is preserved in the final two-thirds of "Star Trek Log 7".

 

[Redfern]

One missed opportunity in a body-swap episode -- when the original Teen Titans animated series did an episode body-swapping Raven and Starfire, they planned to have Tara Strong imitate Hynden Walch's Starfire and Walch imitate Strong's Raven... but they found that both actresses' impressions were so perfect that they figured the audience wouldn't be able to tell the difference. So they just had the characters swap voices, with Strong playing Raven in Starfire's body and Walch playing Starfire in Raven's body. Which is a shame, because I would've loved to hear their impersonations.

Then I think you would have liked a particular episode of "Steven Universe" when the titular character accidentally discovered a new Gem related power by swapping minds with another character named Lars. The voice actor who played Lars still did the voice, but played him as though he now had Steven's personality. IT was refreshingly different from the usual cliché (as done in Gilligan's Island). The performer didn't really change his voice other than to present a far more positive attitude about life. (Lars is usually very morose and bitter while Steven is (normally) encouraging and upbeat). No, we didn't experience the other point of view as a condition of this new power meant Steven's body remained asleep.

 

[Christopher]

Then I think you would have liked a particular episode of "Steven Universe" when the titular character accidentally discovered a new Gem related power by swapping minds with another character named Lars.

Except my disappointment wasn't about the plot, it was about the specific actresses. I really like Tara Strong and Hynden Walch as voice actresses and would've loved to hear them play each other's characters. I'm not that familiar with the actors in Steven Universe.