ST-TAS Theme song

[Gary7]

I have to admit, as an adult I never bothered to watch Star Trek The Animated Series. I had seen it in my pre-teen years, and after some decades, I started to watch it periodically (the H&I channel runs it on Sunday nights, 2 episodes). The first thing I noticed was the intro theme song. Immediately I got this "Saturday morning" feeling about it. Transported back to when I was a kid, excited for "cartoon morning" on Saturdays. The sound of TAS used to kind of "ring it in."

Anyone else get that feeling from the ST-TAS theme song? Are you transported back to Saturday mornings as a kid?


I'd forgotten that most of the original cast did the voice-overs. But wow, how "wooden" the acting. Really feels like they're reading directly off the script.

 

[Spock's Barber]

I'd forgotten that most of the original cast did the voice-overs. But wow, how "wooden" the acting. Really feels like they're reading directly off the script.

I once read an interview with one of the cast members who said that sitting in a recording studio with headphones on and a microphone in their face was not condusive to inspired acting. They also said that not all of the cast recorded their lines together, like they would do in a film studio scene.

 

[Gary7]

I once read an interview with one of the cast members who said that sitting in a recording studio with headphones on and a microphone in their face was not condusive to inspired acting. They also said that not all of the cast recorded their lines together, like they would do in a film studio scene.

Ah, that explains it. The lines between actors always has a "hard stop"... there's not the kind of flow that you get from TOS. So that must be it. Lines recorded separately. And thus, you miss the "reaction" tone to the other actor's lines. The actor doesn't "feel" themselves immersed in a scene, just reading lines. And man... M'Ress, read by Majel Barrett. Laughable!

 

[Maurice]

Dorothy Fontana largely shot that down in a in a recent interview (link), saying the cast was together for the recodings more often than not.

 

[Kor]

There's this odd scene in "The Lorelei Signal" where the aged characters are in sickbay, and their voices sound very weak and weary. Then suddenly, they sound like themselves again. It's as if the voice work for the later part of the scene was done in a different recording session and they forgot how they were supposed to sound.

Kor

 

[johnnybear]

I've been playing these every Saturday morning for the last month and in production order naturally!
JB

 

[Gary7]

I've been playing these every Saturday morning for the last month and in production order naturally!
JB

Do you feel like a kid again?

 

[WarpFactorZ]

My flashback Saturday morning cartoon theme is probably Godzilla (from the 80s, sorry).

"Up from the depths,
Thirty stories high,
Breathing fire,
He stands in the sky!
Godzilla!! Godzilla!! Godzilla!!
...."
and then we can forget the part about Godzuki.

Sorry to hijack the thread. The general tone made me reminisce.

 

[johnnybear]

Do you feel like a kid again?

Yeah I suppose I do! At least it's better Trek than Discovery!
JB

 

[Gary7]

And how neglectful of me...

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...should have started with this!

 

[feek61]

Dorothy Fontana largely shot that down in a in a recent interview (link), saying the cast was together for the recodings more often than not.

In one of Shatners books (I think the second "Memories" book) he talks about recording his parts while he was on the road doing summer theater.

 

[iliescu]

A favorite is the Vulcan national anthem.

 

[Maurice]

In one of Shatners books (I think the second "Memories" book) he talks about recording his parts while he was on the road doing summer theater.

Well, they disagree, obviously.

 

[Kor]

Part of me wishes they could have used the TOS theme for TAS.

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Kor

 

[johnnybear]

Well it's near enough I guess...
JB

 

[johnnybear]

Do you feel like a kid again?

I still feel like a kid now after all these years anyways, Gaz!
JB

 

[Gary7]

Part of me wishes they could have used the TOS theme for TAS.

Not me... should be distinctly different, IMHO. And they are. I like the TAS theme... it just feels like it goes well with the show.