Comment on Been Very Recently Watching ‘Star Trek: The Animated Series’; What Do Rest of You, Who have Watched At Least 3-Episodes, Think of The Series?

StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I loved TAS when I watched it as a teen when it first ran.

I was beyond the age Saturday morning cartoons, but was so happy to have more Star Trek.

I was furious that older fans campaigned against the show to the point that NBC canceled it before more than the first six episodes of the second season were in production.

It still stands as the only Star Trek show to earn a ‘Best Series’ Emmy.

I hadn’t seen TAS in many decades when we picked up the DVDs for our kids (who are now in their late teens).

Given all the CGI and generally better animation in children’s programming, I wasn’t convinced that they would like it. But they took to it right away and it was very successful as an introduction to the franchise for them — more than 35 years after it was made!

One point, the number of frames on the animation, the movement only in the mouths during speech as well as the reuse of sequences was the only way to stay in budget in the 1970s.

The art direction was top-notch nonetheless. The original drawings, including some of the gorgeous mattes for alien planets and some of the new aliens are fantastic.

(I have some images to upload but that function seems to remain offline.)

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