Star Trek: The Animated Series

[Galileo7]

I recently watched the series for the first time on Netflix and was pretty impressed with it. A lot of the episodes were really entertaining, and I wasn't really put off by the animation at all. Some of the episodes I really loved were "Yesteryear," "The Magicks of Megas-tu," "The Time Trap," "The Slaver Weapon," and "The Counter-Clock Incident."

Agree. Good episodes.

 

[Nine of Four]

Yesteryear is my personal favorite.

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[BoredShipCapt'n]

Just rewatched "The Counter-Clock Incident," the final episode, and noticed that the very last line of dialogue made a great epitaph for the whole Animated Series:

"It gave all of us a second life."

Certainly better than the equally-appropriate epitaph for TOS:

"If only..."

 

[JoeD80]

They really did seem to try and present good stories, but with perhaps 22 minutes to work with, there wasn't a lot they could do for characterization.

Depends on the character. I daresay Uhura was given more to do in TAS than she was in TOS. Sulu also got to be pretty prominent.

Agreed, Christopher. By necessity they had to have a greater focus on the narrative of the episodes because they had much less screen time to tell their stories than they did in TOS, but I do think there are some sections of fandom which tend to downplay just how well TAS serviced the main characters, particularly the ones outside the 'big three'. It did a great deal more with the characters than some would have us believe.

I think it was David Gerrold referring to "Bem" who said that they really didn't need to cut anything out of his live-action script to fit the 22 minute running time. You can put a lot of action and characterization in to an animated show.

 

[jpv2000]

Depends on the character. I daresay Uhura was given more to do in TAS than she was in TOS. Sulu also got to be pretty prominent.

Agreed, Christopher. By necessity they had to have a greater focus on the narrative of the episodes because they had much less screen time to tell their stories than they did in TOS, but I do think there are some sections of fandom which tend to downplay just how well TAS serviced the main characters, particularly the ones outside the 'big three'. It did a great deal more with the characters than some would have us believe.

I think it was David Gerrold referring to "Bem" who said that they really didn't need to cut anything out of his live-action script to fit the 22 minute running time. You can put a lot of action and characterization in to an animated show.

Indeed you can and they did a good job of doing so.