TAS to TOS

[Potemkin_Prod]

Yes, but recall that TOS didn't have the f/x resources contemporary productions have. So they'd have to be really clever about how they did things with some measure of panache.

The two episodes I cited would've been relatively easily done. Fantastic Voyage had done with a traveling matte a year or two earlier, in fact. And the aging backwards wasn't even shown in VOY. The aliens just said, "Oh, we age backwards. That little girl you've befriended and been protecting is like 97 years old, Tuvok. Looks like you silly people from the other side of the galaxy age backwards..."

Things like the colony creature Bem or the Phylosians of "The Infinite Vulcan" and some of the other exotic aliens might have been beyond TOS' reach. The Gorn was as far as we saw them go. A non-humanoid alien would have to be very creative. The life-size Horta from "The Devil In The Dark" was as non-humanoid as we saw I think.

For the Phylosians, they could've whipped out the old "skunk cabbage" monster from Lost In Space and Voyage to the Bottle of the Sea.

Seriously, the nature of the Phylosians would've been easily eliminated. They didn't have to be plants; it wasn't even important to the story.

As far as Bem goes, he was a colony creature. He didn't have to disassemble except once or twice. Interestingly enough, Mark Lenard played a similar creature on Buck Rogers in the 23rd Century, and actually took his head off a couple of times.

DS9Sega, I hadn't heard that, but it would've be easily accomplished, I think.

Warped, can't believe you've forgotten one of my favorites: Yarnek. Plus there are a few others in "The Cage" that, like the Horta, were originally from "The Outer Limits."

 

[Valin]

The episode I consider to be the best, likely could not be made as a TOS episode, Yesteryear. Multiple Vulcan cars, Spock's pet, the desert at night, the attack by the wild beast. There no way TOS could have done this episode without screwing it up. A perfect example of how animation can be superior for telling some stories.

Yesteryear was my favorite Animated Series episode as well. It gives a lot of depth to the Vulcan race, and Spock.

And influenced the writers of the recent Star Trek film.

 

[Valin]

There are quite a few TAS episodes that could have been done as live-action with the understanding that they would have to be adapted and some of the ideas reconsidered.

I'm not parting with the 50 foot tall Vulcan!

You would not have to. If they could afford a giant Apollo in the Season 2 episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" then they could afford a giant Spock as well.



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They could have used the 50 ft actor who did the "Jolly Green Giant" commercials.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It would have been interesting to see how they filled up the missing half an hour in each of the stories.

I'd love to see some Arex/M'Ress banter added to each episode. As new additions to the crew, they could discuss their observations of their new colleagues, Kirk's decisions, difficulties/insights of fitting in as crewmembers. We get an inkling that they lunch together in "The Practical Joker" (and briefly expanded in Alan Dean Foster's novelization, IIRC), where they assume they are getting the blame for the practical jokes because they are new to the ship.

 

[Navigator_NCC2120]

I'm not parting with the 50 foot tall Vulcan!

You would not have to. If they could afford a giant Apollo in the Season 2 episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" then they could afford a giant Spock as well.



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They could have used the 50 ft actor who did the "Jolly Green Giant" commercials.

Ho, Ho, Ho, Green Vulcan!



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[Lieut. Arex]

I might be misremembering, but I think I read someplace that Gerrold's idea for BEM in a live-action was to have several people in one costume...so that the character could disassemble.

That's right. He covers it in either The World of Star Trek or The Trouble with Tribbles. That approach would have been better visually and more plausible than the floating body parts we got in the actual episode.