star trek the animated series episodes free mp4 download All Seasons. In orbit around a dead star, the Enterprise comes across a huge starship inhabited by a parasitic life form that threatens the entire ship. S01E02 Yesteryear. September 15, 1973 NBC. While on an away mission in the Guardian of Forever, Spock is erased from the timeline. S01E03 One of Our Planets is Missing. September 22, 1973 NBC. The crew of the Enterprise races to find a way to stop a cloud from destroying inhabited planets. S01E04 The Lorelei Signal. September 29, 1973 NBC. Responding to a distress signal from a sector of space where ships disappear every 27.346 years, the male crewman are affected by a signal. Uhura and Chapel are forced to take command when the male crew onboard starting acting enraptured. On the planet's surface, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and a redshirt are first greeted than captured by the women and given headsets that suck out their energies and cause their bodies to deteriorate as if they were aging. They escape but in their enfeebled condition are trapped in a giant urn filling with rainwater. Uhura leads a landing party that defeat the women readily and find the men. The women's physiology and life-energy requirements are keyed to the planet, and Enterprise agrees to take them to a normal planet. Using the transporter and the original patterns, they restore Kirk and the others. S01E05 More Tribbles, More Troubles. October 6, 1973 NBC. The Enterprise is escorting robot carriers loaded with five-lobed quinto-triticale to Sherman's Planet amidst rumors the Klingons haev a new weapon. The Klingons attack a small scout ship and the Enterprise rescue the single crewman: trader Cyrano Jones. And he has. tribbles. Neither Jones or the Klingons, led by Kirk's ""old friend"" Captain Koloth, will say why they want him dead. It turns out Jones escaped his sentence on Station K-7 (to clean up every tribble) by finding a tribble predator called a glommer. The Klingons attack the robot ships to stop the shipment and reveal their new weapon: an energy innervator that leaves both ships powerless. Meanwhile, McCoy checks out Jones' tribbles and finds out that the tribbles are safe. sort of. They don't reproduce. They just get bigger. and bigger. When Kirk beams the giant-sized tribbles aboard the Klingon ship, Koloth reveals a state secret: they created the glommer and want it back from Cyrano, who ""acquired"" it. Kirk obliges but at. S01E06 The Survivor. October 13, 1973 NBC. Near the Romulan border the Enterprise discover a one-man ship containing Carter Winston, a missing philanthropist. His fiancee Anne is aboard and the couple are happy to be reunited. But ""Winston"" transforms into an alien, knocks out Kirk, and takes his place long enough to order the ship into the neutral zone. The alien then takes McCoy's place to tell Anne to forget Winston and misdirect Kirk and Spock. They see through the ruse and realize ""Carter"" is a Vendorian, from a race of deceitful shapeshifters. It agreed to help the Romulans get hold of Enterprise. An outcast from its own race, it befriended the real Carter before he died and absorbed much of his feelings and emotions. It shapeshifts into a deflector shield to save Anne and the ship. At the end Anne suggests they try and make a go of it. S01E07 The Infinite Vulcan. October 20, 1973 NBC. The Enterprise investigate a seemingly-abandoned planet to discover it's inhabited by a race of plants, the Phylosians. They are then confronted by a giant humanoid, Dr. Keniclius 5, a refugee of the Eugenics Wars. He leads the Phylosians and they capture Spock and send Kirk packing. Keniclius plans to clone Spock as he cloned himself (being the ""fifth"" generation of the original) and bring peace to the galaxy via conquest. He's helping the Phylosians, a dying race, who are aiding him in return. McCoy whips up some weedkiller and the Enterprise landing party get past the Phylosians only to confront a giant Spock; Keniclius' first of many. But the original is to be sacrificed. Kirk goads the giant Spock into assisting the younger one by drawing on its reflexive actions. The clone-Spock revives the original with a mind meld and Keniclius gives up his dreams of conquest. He and the giant clone-Spock will stay behind to help the Phylosians. S01E08 The Magicks of Megas-Tu. October 27, 1973 NBC. While on a mission at the center of the galaxy, the Enterprise are swept through the center of everything and end up in an alien world where all laws of nature and physics fail to work. They are rescued from total system collapse and death by a satyrlike creature named Lucien. He claims to be happy to have them finally come visiting, but preaches caution. Spock deduces that magic actually works in this universe, but the Enterprise crew's experimental use of it attracts the attention of Lucien's people. They came to Earth and practiced magic, but were hated, feared, and driven out. They put the Enterprise crew on trial in a mock Salem but it is actually Lucien they consider at fault. They agree to let the Enterprise go but condemn Lucien to eternal imprisonment. Defending Lucien, Kirk challenges the court ruling and uses magic himself to fend off the Chief Prosecutor. Impressed by Kirk's willingness to die for Lucien, who may have been the inspiration for Lucifer, the Megans send the En. S01E09 Once Upon a Planet. November 3, 1973 NBC. Kirk returns to the ""shore leave"" planet, but it's not as peaceful as it was when they last saw it. S01E10 Mudd's Passion. November 10, 1973 NBC. The Enterprise are sent to check out a conman who is their old friend Harry Mudd. He is trying to sell a fake love potion to miners. Kirk reveals the scheme and ""rescues"" Harry into protective custody. Mudd tricks Nurse Chapel into trying the love potion on Spock as a distraction to take her hostage and escape by shuttlecraft. Spock and Kirk pursue him to an abandoned planet but not before the potion is distributed into the air system. The potion has a delayed effect and Spock soon becomes enarmored of Christine. Complicating matters, a giant rock creature on the planet attacks and the Enterprise crew are too romantically distracted to rescue them. Kirk manages to use the love potion on the Godzilla-sized creature and it spares them long enough to be rescued. The potion's effects totally reverse and the love-smitten duos hate each other for an equal period of time. Realizing he had the real thing on his hands all along and didn't market it correctly, Harry confesses to his misdeeds. S01E11 The Terratin Incident. November 17, 1973 NBC. While exploring a burnt out supernova the Enterprise track a strange signal with the unrecognized word ""terratin"". They track it to the single planet orbiting the supernova and are hit with a burst of light from the volcanic planet. The crew and all organic matter begin to shrink while the ship's circuits are fused and the dilithium burned out. Struggling against a ship that they will soon be unable to control, they beam Kirk down to the signal source. The transporter recreates him from the original pattern, restoring him to normal size. The planet is plagued with volcanic activity and has a radiation that when focused causes organic shrinkage. Kirk finds a miniature city just before being beamed back up on automatic. He finds the ship deserted: the city below beamed the Enterprise crew, now at their same size down. The ""shrink attack"" was the only way they had to contact Enterprise, and they are about to be destroyed by volcanic activity. They were a lost colony: Terra 10 (i.e., ""terr. S01E12 The Time Trap. November 24, 1973 NBC. The Enterprise is investigating a ""Bermuda Triangle of Space"" when pursuit by three Klingon ships forces them into the area. They and the lead ship commanded by Captain Kor disappear and reappear in a mysterious null area of space filled with abandoned ships. They find a concentrated population on one ship and both captains are whisked away to meet with a Council of various aliens who are trapped there. Unable to escape because of the eventual drain of all higher power systems, they have formed a peaceful coalition, the Elysians, and insist the newcomers obey their rules. The Klingons fail in one attempt to escape the area, but Spock determines that the two ships together might succeed if they operate in tandem. Reluctantly Kor agrees but prepares to sabotage efforts. He has his mate plant a bomb during a social party between the two crews. The two ships linked together manage to escape but Scotty and Spock find the bomb and jettison it just before the Klingon ship breaks away and acti. S01E13 The Ambergris Element. December 1, 1973 NBC. While exploring the planet Argo, Kirk and Spock are turned into water breathers. List of Star Trek: The Animated Series episodes. This is an episode list for the science fiction cartoon series Star Trek: The Animated Series (also known as The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek ), which aired from September 1973 to October 1974 on NBC. The second television program in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: The Animated Series consists of a total of 22 episodes over two seasons. This episode list incorporates the stardate on which the events of each episode took place within the fictional Star Trek universe. Contents. Seasons. Season Episodes Originally Aired DVD Release 1 1 16 1973-1974 Region 1 Region 2 2 6 1974 November 21, 2006 December 4, 2006. ^1 Both seasons were released together as a four-disc series DVD set titled The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek . Episodes. Season 1 (1973–1974) While exploring on the outermost rim of the galaxy the USS Enterprise is pulled into the orbit of a dead star. Trapped there, the crew discovers that there is an ancient derelict pod ship trapped with them as well. Kirk and crew beam aboard the huge starship and learn it was once home to an insect race. They also learn that the ship's crew self-destructed rather than carry a malevolent entity to other worlds. Investigating a sector of space where starships have disappeared every 27 years, the Enterprise finds a race of beautiful women living on the planet Taurus II. While in the Taurean system signals begin to affect the male crew, causing them to hallucinate. Captain Kirk, Spock, Doctor McCoy, and Lieutenant Carver beam down to the source of the signals. After arriving on the planet they are taken prisoner by the Taurean women. The landing party begins to age rapidly as a result of life-draining headbands they are forced to wear. While the USS Enterprise escorts two robot cargo ships carrying quintotriticale, a new seed grain, to famine stricken Sherman's Planet, it encounters a Klingon battlecruiser pursuing a Federation scout ship. When the Enterprise rescues the pilot, the Klingons attack with a new energy weapon and demand that the pilot be handed over to them. The pilot turns out to be Cyrano Jones, an intergalactic trader well known to Kirk and crew from "The Trouble With Tribbles". The Klingons desperately want Jones for introducing the tribble to Klingon planets where it has become a major pest, and for stealing a glommer, an animal the Klingons were breeding to prey on the tribble. Kirk expresses sympathy for the Klingons' plight but refuses to hand over Jones, a Federation citizen. Jones is now selling tribbles genetically engineered to omit their ordinarily unrestrained multiplicative proclivities. Dr. McCoy discovers that although Jones' "new" tribbles don't reproduce, they still have ravenous appetites. Instead of reproducing, they now grow hugely fat. While visiting the newly discovered planet Phylos, Lt. Sulu picks up a walking plant, called a Retlaw, and is poisoned. The alien species that inhabit the planet, who are plantlike beings, approach and save Sulu's life. From them the crew discovers that most of the Phylosians were wiped out by a plague brought to the planet by Dr. Keniclius, a Terran scientist who survived Earth's Eugenics Wars. While exploring near the center of the galaxy, the USS Enterprise is caught inside an energy/matter vortex and all her computer systems fail. A being named Lucien appears on the bridge, repairs the ship's systems and takes the crew to explore his planet, Megas-Tu. The Enterprise crew revisits the "amusement park" planet first seen in the Classic Trek episode "Shore Leave" hoping for some rest and relaxation. The disappearance of a scientific team lures the USS Enterprise to investigate near Lactra VII. The starship Ariel is located there, abandoned, with its captain having transported to the planet's surface. Star trek the animated series episodes free mp4 download. First New Animated STAR TREK in 35 Years! New Animated STAR TREK Episode Complete and Ready to Watch! --> Chronicling the Forgotten STAR TREK Series and Producing New Animated STAR TREK Episodes! Big News! Last year, 2020, was the 100th Anniversary of the birth of James Doohan, talented actor behind the role of STAR TREK 's Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on televison and in the movies. To commemorate that milestone, I created a brand new Animated Episode! "The Quintain" which features Scotty in the lead role. I invite you to watch it. Also Watch All 9 Parts of "Ptolemy Wept" My Second New Animated STAR TREK Episode! The 9th and Final Chapter of "Ptolemy Wept" has now been released! Watch Part 1 of My Second Brand New Full-Length Animated STAR TREK Episode - "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 2 of "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 3 of "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 4 of "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 5 of "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 6 of "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 7 of "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 8 of "Ptolemy Wept" Watch Part 9 of "Ptolemy Wept" - New! --> Watch my New Animated STAR TREK Shows Watch my other New Animated STAR TREK Shows --> Trailer for New Animated STAR TREK Adventures --> In honor of March being Women's History Month Here is my Public Service Announcement for the Sep. 29, 1973 episode "The Lorelei Signal" which addressed how the female Enterprise crewmembers came to the rescue of the men. --> --> In honor of November being Native American Heritage Month Here is my Public Service Announcement for Russell Bates' animated episode "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth" --> Episodes. Characters --> Trailer for New Animated STAR TREK Adventures Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise Keep on Trekkin' in Animated Form! New Animated STAR TREK Episodes are Coming from DanhauserTrek.com! DanhauserTrek.com and Needless Films bring brand new Animated Adventures of Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The last new animated STAR TREK episode featuring Captain Kirk and his crew aired on Saturday morning, October 12, 1974. Curt Danhauser, creator of the Guide to the Animated STAR TREK web site, the Internet's oldest and most extensive site devoted to the forgotten STAR TREK series, is hand-creating a new set of full-length Animated STAR TREK episodes for release free on the internet. These new shows have been in the works since December 2006 and will be written, directed, produced, storyboarded, animated and drawn by Curt Danhauser. The new episodes were kicked off with a 7-minute animated short feature "The Element of Surprise" which had been created as a proof-of-concept. But the big news is that on September 8th, 2008 - the 35th Anniversary of the Animated STAR TREK series' debut - DanhauserTrek.com has released the first part of a brand new full-length animated episode entitled "And Let the Heavens Fall". This is the first new animated STAR TREK episode produced in 35 years! The new animated STAR TREK episodes can be seen by clicking on the "New Episodes" button near the top of this page. These new episodes are intended to be a direct continuation of the animated STAR TREK series produced by Filmation Associates and are thus set in the timeframe of that series' second season which is the future year 2270. The full length episode "And Let the Heavens Fall" is slated to be released next. The first season of the animated STAR TREK series had 16 episodes, while season two only had 6 episodes. These new episodes may be considered some additional season two stories although appearing after a hiatus of 34 years. Curt Danhauser , Sep. 8, 2008. --> Welcome to my guide to the Animated STAR TREK series - the "forgotten" STAR TREK . Here the browser can relive the memories of seeing the show as a child or adult or discover the show for the first time. I, myself, was eleven years old when the Animated STAR TREK first aired. I invite you to enjoy this site and please feel free to drop me an e-mail if you have any questions or comments. Curt Danhauser , March 25, 1996. Descriptions of Site Contents: Series History . In-depth story behind the 1973-1974 animated series. Episodes . List of episodes with links to the individual episode pages. Characters . List of series characters with links to individual cast-member pages. Timeline . Chronological listing of dates and events mentioned in the Animated Star Trek series. Technology . List of ships and devices from the Animated STAR TREK series, with links to individual graphics/blueprint pages. Lifeforms . List of the aliens and creatures mentioned on the Animated STAR TREK series, with photos and descriptions of each. Personnel . List of all of the Starfleet members seen and mentioned on the Animated STAR TREK series, with photos and descriptions of each. Production . Complete listing of the writers and directors who worked on the Animated STAR TREK series. Also complete Show Credits and a look at how the show was produced. References . Books used by the author to create this Guide to Animated STAR TREK . What's New . Chronological listing of changes made to this site. Check this page to see what has been added recently. Filmation . Information about the production company that created the Animated STAR TREK series. Also included is a chronological listing of all of Filmation's productions. Writing for Limited Animation . Detailed treatment of the technique of limited animation including how best to write scripts for limited animation films especially the Saturday morning cartoon show. New Episodes . List of the new animated STAR TREK episodes created by Curt Danhauser with links to individual pages to allow viewing of these new animated films. Questions and Answers . Frequently asked questions regarding the Animated STAR TREK series along with their answers. Submit a Question . Please feel free to use this form to submit a question to me regarding the Animated STAR TREK series. Your question and its answer may be used on the Questions and Answers page at this site. Download the Animated STAR TREK Theme. STAR TREK is a Registered Trademark of Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Randy Hall over at Sci-Fi Pulse.Net reviewed my animated episode! Spoiler Alert! - The review gives away the story's ending. I've gotten a nice review by Bernd Schneider from the fantastic Ex Astris Scientia site! Spoiler Alert! - The review contains details of the story's twists and ending. Several of my New Animated STAR TREK films were shown at the Animation Supercon in Miami Florida. My Animated episode was listed in Bakersfield Magazine's Insiders Guide in the August 2009 issue. The Animated STAR TREK Series has been released on DVD with Extras! On November 21st, 2006, Paramount officially released Star Trek: The Animated Series on DVD. The packaging is shown at right and the suggested retail price is around $39, but it can be ordered from Amazon.com for around $24. What is especially noteworthy is that Paramount's announcements have listed several extras. "Drawn to the Final Frontier - The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series" "What's the Star Trek Connection?" Photo Gallery Show History Wallpaper AIM Icons Text Commentaries by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda ("Yesteryear," "The Eye of the Beholder," "The Counter-Clock Incident"). Interview with Associate Producer/Story Editor/Writer D.C. Fontana. Interview with Filmation Producer Lou Scheimer Director Hal Sutherland who helmed 20 of the 22 episodes. David Wise, the Co-Writer of the episode "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth". Writer David Gerrold, talking about his episodes "Bem" and the original series tribbles sequel, "More Tribbles, More Troubles". Judith and Garfield Reese- Stevens ( STAR TREK novelists, Enterprise Writers/Co-Producers, Co-Authors of several non-fiction Trek books including STAR TREK: Phase II , The Art of Star Trek and the tenth anniversary tome STAR TREK: The Next generation - The Continuing Mission ) to discuss their perspective on the animated series' place in Trek history. Walter Koenig, writer of "The Infinite Vulcan" animated episode. Book About Writing For Television by Animated STAR TREK writer Larry Brody! Television Writing from the Inside Out: Your Channel to Success by Larry Brody. Television Writing from the Inside Out is a how-to book with a difference: Larry Brody is a television writer-producer who has helped shape the medium. The book is rooted in experience, and told in the breezy style that is the trademark of Brody and his award-winning website TVWriter.Com, which has helped launch the careers of many new writers. The information given by Brody and the manner in which he gives it has made him a writing guru to thousands of hopefuls.Television Writing from the Inside Out covers: what writing jobs are available; the format, structure and stages of teleplay development; tips on the writing of different genres - drama, comedy, action, the television film, soap opera, animation; and sample teleplays by Brody and others, with analyses of why they were written the way they were in terms of creativity, business, production and "insider politics."Television Writing from the Inside Out presents all that Larry Brody has learned about writing, selling and surviving in the television industry. The best-kept secret in show business has been that it is a business, but Brody's readers will know the truth - and armed with their new knowledge, they will have a significant edge as they set out to conquer this fascinating field. Larry Brody is the author of the Animated STAR TREK episode "The Magicks of Megas-tu" and the 1995 STAR TREK: Voyager episode "Tattoo." New Book About Filmation by Co-founder Lou Scheimer Now Released! Lou Scheimer: Creating The Filmation Generation by Lou Scheimer with Andy Mangels. Hailed as one of the fathers of Saturday morning television, Lou Scheimer was the co-founder of Filmation Studios, which for over 25 years provided animated excitement for TV and film. Always at the forefront, Scheimer's company created the first DC cartoons with Superman, Batman, and Aquaman, ruled the song charts with The Archies, kept Trekkie hope alive with the Emmy-winning Star Trek: The Animated Series, taught morals with Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and swung into high adventure with Tarzan, The Lone Ranger, and Zorro. Forays into live- action included Shazam! and The Secrets of Isis, plus groundbreaking special effects work on Jason of Star Command and others. And in the 1980s, Filmation single- handedly caused the syndication explosion with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and its successors. Now, Lou Scheimer tells the entire story to best-selling author Andy Mangels, including how his father decked Adolf Hitler, memories of the comics of the Golden Age, schooling with Andy Warhol, and what it meant to lead the last all-American animation company through nearly thirty years of innovation and fun! Profusely illustrated with photos, model sheets, storyboards, presentation art, looks at rare and unproduced series, and more plus stories from top animation insiders about Scheimer and Filmation's past this book will show the Filmation Generation the story behind the stories! Be sure to check out the Animated Adventures of the U.S.S. Farragut , also done in the Filmation style. I contributed some backgrounds to their laudable efforts. Here is an animation I created based on Frank Miller's Sin City. Here are two animations I created based on Frank Miller's Sin City. --> Be sure to visit Kail Tescar's excellent STAR TREK : The Animated Series web site: I worked behind the camera on two small independant film directed by my friend Mike Hill: New STAR TREK S.C.E. Omnibus contains sequel to "The Time Trap" [TAS]. On December 11, 2007, the third Starfleet Corps of Engineers trade paperback collection will be published. The book collects eBooks #43 through 49 and is entitled "Star Trek: SCE: Creative Couplings." The book includes S.C.E. #44 "Where Time Stands Still" by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore. As the original publishing was as an eBook, this will mark the first time this story appears in print! "Paradise Interrupted" by John S. Drew "Where Time Stands" Still by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (featuring the character Lieutenant Commander Curtis Danhauser - science officer of the starship U.S.S. T'Saura !) "The Art of the Deal" by Glenn Greenberg "Spin" by J. Steven York and Christina F. York "Creative Couplings" by Glenn Hauman and Aaron Rosenberg "Small World" by David Mack. STAR TREK Novel is Direct Sequel to "The Time Trap" [TAS] In September 2003, STAR TREK novel authors Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore contacted me to inform me that they were working on a new Starfleet Corps of Engineers novel that would be a direct sequel to the Animated STAR TREK epsiode "The Time Trap". I was thrilled, since that was my favorite animated episode. But, there was more to their missive. They also wanted to know if it would be okay to name a character in the book after me! One of the Starfleet personnel in the tale, who was to work hand in hand with the S.C.E. characters, was to be named Curt Danhauser - as a sort of homage to me for my efforts to give long-overdue respect to the forgotten series by creating this website and also for my work on the Animated STAR TREK Trading Card set. I said "Yes", of course, and to make a long story short, one year later, in September 2004, their book was published. It is entitled STAR TREK - Starfleet Corps of Engineers #44: Where Time Stands Still and it is a really great read. In addition to its being an exciting adventure story, it is also important because it is the first novel published by Pocket Books to directly acknowledge and tie-in with events from the Animated STAR TREK series. It also reconciles some of the events of Starfleet's early history as described by the Enterprise and Animated STAR TREK series. I encourage all lovers of good adventure and especially fans of the Animated STAR TREK to get Starfleet Corps of Engineers #44 - if only to find out the fate of my namesake. Below is a synopsis of the book and a handy link to Simon & Shuster's page for the book for purchasing. Curt Danhauser, January 15, 2005. Synopsis: Before the twenty-fourth-century adventures of David Gold, Sonya Gomez, and the crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci came the more rough- and-tumble Starfleet Corps of Engineers of the twenty-third century. In the wake of an incident involving the Starship Enterprise and the infamous Delta Triangle, Lieutenant Commander Mahmud al-Khaled and the crew of the run-down U.S.S. Lovell must "open" the Triangle -- and also find a lost generation ship that was last seen entering the phenomenon. But the mission grows even more complex when the Gorn arrive, demanding -- at gunpoint -- that the Gorn criminals inside the Triangle be returned to them. A gripping new twenty-third-century drama in the tradition of Foundations! During their adventures near the Delta Quadrant, the crew of the U.S.S. Lovell work with the crew of the science starship U.S.S. T'Saura including science officer Lieutenant Commander Curtis Danhauser! A note about my involvement with the Animated STAR TREK Trading Cards: In August 2002, I began working with Steve Charendoff president of Rittenhouse Archives on the creation of an Animated STAR TREK Trading Card set. I was employed to write the synopses and the secondary (behind-the-scenes) text for the deluxe 198-card set. I was also provided with several thousand screen captures from the 22 episodes and asked to choose the 396 images that would grace the fronts and backs of the cards. In addition, I wrote the bridge crew biographies and provided detailed voice credits for the James Doohan tribute cards. I completed the writing and graphic task on Dec. 31, 2002 and the card set which was slated for a February 2003 release finally hit the streets in March 2003. The card set turned out beautifully, and only a few text errors made their way into the cards after my material was turned in. In regards to graphics, only a few incorrect images and a smattering of incorrectly recolored characters are evident in the final set. It is about time that the Forgotten STAR TREK Series got the full trading card treatment. Graphic Novelty² Could I truly call myself a Star Trek fan without watching this series from the 70s? I felt I was missing out on some classic Trek, so what better time than quarantine to watch all 22 episodes! There are a few changes in this series vs TOS, although chronologically it would only be a year later. Due to cost-cutting, Walter Koening was not invited back, with Nichelle Nichols and George Takei barely making the cut due to Leonard Nimoy advocating for them. Nurse Chapel (Majel Barrett- Gene Roddenberry’s IRL wife, who would later play Troi’s mother in TNG) gets a larger role, and two unlikely crewmembers are added- a feline woman and a strange three armed long-necked alien. At first not considered canon, the series is now considered the fourth season that TOS never got, and information found in it is considered part of the Star Trek chronology, with references to characters and situations in future Trek series. Warning- some spoilers! But really, are you reading this post truly worried about learning plot points? Season One. Beyond the Farthest Star. As the first episode of the series, thus establishing the caliber of this series, it wasn’t good. The Enterprise is being pulled into the orbit of a dead star. An evil non-corporeal alien entity tries to trap the ship there, but the crew is able to engage a slingshot maneuver and escape. The animation took some getting used to, as the characters are simply, if not crudely, drawn caricatures of the crew from the 60s show. The space shots were fun, with some psychedelic coloring. Spock enters the Guardian of Forever to correct a time discrepancy in his childhood. He masquerades as a distant cousin and helps his young self correct the problem that will right the timeline. This was a surprisingly poignant episode that showed young Spock’s homelife and the bullying he endured by his peers for being half-human. This storyline was replicated in the 2009 Kelvin Star Trek movie that had a scene of Spock’s childhood that obviously was inspired by this episode. This proved to be one of the better stories. One of Our Planets Is Missing. A massive space cloud is destroying planets and is on course to destroy a planet that has a Federation colony on it. Aiming the ship into the cloud, they discover that this cloud is actually a living entity so Spock mind-melds with it to show this creature that it is destroying life. The creature then decides to find lunch in another part of the uninhabited galaxy and the Enterprise has saved the planet from destruction. The Lorelei Signal. Uhura and Chapel kick some ass! The ship is nearing a Burmuda Triangle of space where several ships have disappeared in a 27-year cycle. On a planet nearby they discover a race of beautiful women aliens who lure men to their planet to suck their life force from them. As the males are immobilized Uhura and Chapel are able to save the day, plus find a hospitable planet for the women to move to where they can lead regular lives and meet men without having to kill them. I was glad that the women crew members were able to get a significant storyline and didn’t have to depend on the men to save the day. More Tribbles, More Troubles. Klingons HATE tribbles so when they are at risk of being overrun with them. Kirk reluctantly works with Cyrano Jones, an intergalactic trader. Jones knows how to neuter them, yet the Tribbles still grow to ungainly sizes and are still a threat. When the Klingons (who still don’t look anything like Worf from TNG and what we have come to expect them to look like) threaten the Enterprise with a weapon, Kirk is able to negotiate a treaty by giving the Klingons a Glommer, a creature that feeds on Tribbles. Here the Tribbles are pink, which is yet another animation mistake. Similar to a scene in TOS, but this time the Tribbles are the wrong color. The Survivor. When the Enterprise finds a small private ship they think they have found Winston, a human philanthropist missing for five years, and reunites him with his fiance who happens to work on the ship. But he is actually a Vendorian, an alien species that can shapeshift, and the real Winston is dead. But because he absorbed the feelings of Winston, he begins to fall in love with Winston’s former fiance and he rebels against his Romulan captors. This was actually a touching episode and made you think about loving someone for who they are not what they look like. The Infinite Vulcan. Written by Walter Koening (Chekov) who unjustly was not in this series due to budget constraints, this was a rather convoluted episode. While on an away mission, Sulu is poisoned by a plant, but the plant-like creatures residing there save him. The crew discovers the planet was damaged by a plague brought in by a human scientist escaping the Eugenics War (which was a war led by Khan in Earth’s past). A clone of this scientist kidnaps Spock and makes a giant clone of him, but the crew convinces him that the war he escaped is no longer a threat. The two clones remain on the planet to restore the plant civilization, leaving the regular crew to head back to the Enterprise. So, a giant Spock is left behind. The Magicks of Megas-tu. The Enterprise encounters an alien species that for a time lived on Earth, and set off the Salem Witch Trials when their alien skills were perceived as dark magic. The alien Lucian puts them through a trial similar to what happened in Salem, but their evolved humanity shows him that he needs to forgive them. His form is revealed to look like a cloven devil, so the connection is made that our mythology is based on prior alien contact. This episode had a noble idea but the follow-through was messy and is an example as to why this series is often laughed at. Once Upon a Planet. Crew members are looking forward to some shore leave at a planet known for being similar to an amusement park. But the caretaker has died, leaving things to go awry for the crew who beam down. For a time Uhura is kidnapped, as the sentient computer resents its duty and rebels. But Kirk teaches it to be a good boy and to enjoy obeying. This episode rubbed me the wrong way- as this computer and the robots are tricked into being subservient again. Mudd’s Passion. Harry Mudd is back with a new con- a love potion! Mudd is an iconic character that only appeared twice in TOS, and once in this animated series. Here he preys on Nurse Chapel who has a crush on Spock and soon he falls in love with her once the portion actually works. But the potion has a kickback turning love to hate, and once again Mudd is sent to the brig. I enjoyed that Discovery had him in two episodes plus a Short Trek, and I am hoping the Pike series will use this character who is now portrayed by Rainn Wilson. Gotta love Mudd’s comb-over! The Terratin Incident. This was an amusing episode where a mishap causes the crew to start shrinking. They desperately try to fix the situation before they become too small to use the controls. This is an example in which the animation was an effective way to have this type of story that would have been impossible to film in live-action at the time. The Time Trap. The narrative of entering yet another space Burmuda Triangle was utilized again, with the Enterprise and a Klingon ship both being drawn into a pocket of the universe in which other ships have become trapped in over the eons. Descendents of these crews have formed an alliance and have formed the Elysian Council. Although these aliens say there is no escape, we all know Kirk will figure a way out! The Ambergris Element. While on a water planet, Kirk and Spock are in an accident that makes them become water breathers and they discover a lost city under the sea, very similar to our fabled Atlantis. There is an amusing scene where Kirk and Spock are in a water tank on board the Enterprise where Kirk expresses he can’t captain while in a fish tank. The duo work with this planet’s swimming aliens and are able to fix themselves and save the civilization from ruin. Barrett voiced all the extra females in the episode and it was distracting to have them all sound so similar. The Slaver Weapon. This episode concentrated completely on an away mission with Spock, Uhura and Sulu- so it became my favorite, as those three happen to be my favorites from the TOS crew. While transporting a relic from an ancient alien race, they encounter the war-like Kzinti, who look like felines wearing some groovy pink uniforms. These aliens became canon in the new Picard series when Riker mentioned that the Federation is “having some trouble with the Kzinti.” When I watched Picard the quote meant nothing to me, so I find it amusing that a few short weeks later I discovered the meaning of this Easter egg comment. The Eye of the Beholder. Telepathic aliens put Kirk, Spock and Bones in a zoo when they go to a new planet to rescue crew members from another Federation ship. But the crew members work together to send messages to the aliens and convince them to release them. Scotty plays an important role when a baby alien is beamed onto the Enterprise and he communicated with it before reuniting the baby with the parents. Spock and Kirk are called upon to join a motley group of other aliens to retrieve a stolen religious artifact. Oh man- this series creates the most ridiculous aliens! They obviously felt they could design animated aliens that could not be shown on a live-action series due to the cost of special effects. Even nowadays with better special effects, these aliens have not been replicated into series, because they were so damn absurd. Plus there was an additional laugh of an alien woman who blatantly puts the moves on Kirk. Why is Kirk’s shirt orange? Just another example of sloppy animation. Season Two. The Pirates of Orion. Spock contracts a deadly disease and the Enterprise arranges to rendezvous with another ship to get him a cure. Some space pirates intercept the ship and Kirk has to negotiate with the deceptive Orians to get the medicine that Spock needs. Guess what- he wins. This was a surprisingly streamlined episode, that despite its laughable colony-creature (its body parts can separate and move on their own) actually had a good message. Always a Uhura fan, I liked how she had a moment taking the helm of the ship and demanding crew members follow her orders as procedure dictated they do. This episode also included Kirk saying “ There are times, Mr. Spock when I think I should have been a librarian. ” Spock observes “ The job of librarian would be no less challenging, captain, but it would undoubtedly be a lot less dangerous. ” As a librarian myself, I enjoyed the idea that my job is as challenging as a spaceship’s Captain! The Practical Joker. The computer gets a virus and becomes a practical joker. Not a fan of slapstick humor- this episode was really lackluster for me. That Barrett voiced the computer is a precursor that she would voice most onboard computer interfaces throughout several of the future Star Trek shows. The highlight of the episode was seeing Kirk wear a shirt that says Kirk is a Jerk that I have seen on memes but not understood the context until now. And yes, sometimes he is. Perhaps a joke about William Shatner who is known for his testy relationships with co-workers? Dr. McCoy is accused of causing a plague on an alien planet 19 years ago and is put in jail. Determined to prove his innocence, Kirk finds an alien whom he helped during that era, but then the entire ship falls ill. When I think the aliens on this series can’t get any stranger, TAS proves me wrong! How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth. This episode was problematic and included the trope of gods-were-really-aliens again. Within the first minute, I clued in that a crew member at the helm that we never met before, Ensign Walking Bear, was going to be important, yet a one and done character. He recognizes an attacking ship as looking like Kukulkan, a Mayan deity since he is Comanche and studied other Native American cultures. This alien beams Kirk, Walking Bear and others to his ship where it is revealed that this alien visited Earth in the past and influenced the Mayan and Egyptian civilizations, but feels rejected as they did not meet his expectations of gratitude. Kirk convinces this alien that humans have grown since he last visited and to let them go and continue evolving . I think this line of thinking reinforces some misguided people who believe that some non-white civilizations couldn’t have developed as advanced as cultures as they had at one time and thus must have had outside influence. The title of this episode refers to Shakespeare’s quote from King Lear “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child” which is a good quote but quite derogatory here. The Counter-Clock Incident. This last episode was also cringe-worthy and reinforced that the show needed to end. Traveling on the Enterprise is Commodore Robert April who was the first Enterprise captain and his wife Dr. April as they prepare for mandatory retirement at age 75. They encounter a supernova that pulls them into an opposite universe and they began to de-age. Spock and the April’s maintain the ship since they are older and aren’t turned into babies like the rest of the crew, although they too grow younger. The problems I had with this episode were the ageism and sexism- Dr. April is referred to as Mrs. April repeatedly and they are not utilized to help until the end when the need for their assistance was quite obvious from the beginning. My youngest son asked what was worse- this series or the Star War’s Holiday Special . I had to pause and think because they are both unique and horrible in their own ways. But these last two episodes pushed me to pick this series. I must keep in mind that this series was a product of its time- the early 70s was still mired in old-fashioned stereotypes. But the crude animation torpedoed this series, as their numerous continuity mistakes were obvious, and their stock footage (there should be a drinking game for how many times the same footage was used of Spock looking into a viewfinder on the bridge) was distracting. Some of the storylines were more nuanced than others but that begs the question- was this series geared for children or adults? But overall, I am so glad I watched The Animated Series . It was an interesting look into Star Trek’s uneven history and there were nuggets of good storytelling found in it. I now await Discovery’s third season and was thrilled with the recent announcement that Captain Pike, Number One and a young Spock would be getting their own series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . In the meantime- Live Long and Prosper! Watch Star Trek: The Animated Series. Among fans of this cult classic it is called ST:TAS for short. This is the animated adventures of the crew of the USS Enterprise as they roam the galaxy in search of new worlds and new races. The show aired for two consecutive seasons on the NBC network beginning in 1973 and ending its run in 1974. Each of the twenty two episodes are a half of an hour in length. This series was a joint venture between Paramount Productions and Filmation. Originally the idea was to have younger officers assigned to each of the important crew members. This could only be done if series creator Gene Roddenberry agreed to sign away creative control. He refused and instead made sure the animated series would continue to follow the plot lines and ideas he originally envisioned. The show began on September 8, 1973 and was aired on Saturday morning's ensuring the time slot would be best suited for children. While it aired originally in the United States it was dubbed into many different languages allowing the episodes to air worldwide. The series also won a Daytime Emmy Award. This series had two interesting and important things to note. One was the introduction of a holodeck. On the animated series it is known as the rec room but it is indeed the first such appearance of a holodeck of any kind. The other had to do with the space suit. In order to allow the characters to breathe outside the ship the animators decided to create a specialized suit that the characters would wear. This modified suit consisted of a belt drawn around the characters waist that created a yellow colored field around them. Among fans of this cult classic it is called ST:TAS for short. This is the animated adventures of the crew of the USS Enterprise as they roam the galaxy in search of new worlds and new races. The show aired for two consecutive seasons on the NBC network beginning in 1973 and ending its run in 1974. Each of the twenty two episodes are a half of an hour in length. This series was a joint venture between Paramount Productions and Filmation. Originally the idea was to have younger officers assigned to each of the important crew members. This could only be done if series creator Gene Roddenberry agreed to sign away creative control. He refused and instead made sure the animated series would continue to follow the plot lines and ideas he originally envisioned. The show began on September 8, 1973 and was aired on Saturday morning's ensuring the time slot would be best suited for children. While it aired originally in the United States it was dubbed into many different languages allowing the episodes to air worldwide. The series also won a Daytime Emmy Award. This series had two interesting and important things to note. One was the introduction of a holodeck. On the animated series it is known as the rec room but it is indeed the first such appearance of a holodeck of any kind. The other had to do with the space suit. In order to allow the characters to breathe outside the ship the animators decided to create a specialized suit that the characters would wear. This modified suit consisted of a belt drawn around the characters waist that created a yellow colored field around them. Star Trek: The Animated Series is a series that is currently running and has 2 seasons (23 episodes). The series first aired on September 8, 1973.