Star Trek: The Animated Series
(1973-1974, Ages 7 and Up)
9/3/21
I’d like to dedicate this entry to a dear friend of mine, Aaron, who single-handedly rekindled my love for science fiction. Ironically, Star Wars was what had virtually killed that love in the first place. As a kid, I thought it was boring with a capital B. As an adult, I do appreciate its place in cinematic history, but I consider it absurdly overrated. If not for Aaron, I might never have given its rival a chance; now I, too, will “boldly go” for Gene Roddenberry’s space exploration saga over George Lucas’ space opera any day of the week. But it was actually a different series in the former’s franchise that I watched first since its episode count was much less intimidating. In hindsight, this wasn’t a good idea as far as spoilers were concerned, but I was able to ignore that long enough to decide it was totally worth spending the next two months binging on all eighty episodes of The Original Series on Netflix afterwards. And so, here’s to you, Aaron, for making me a full-time Trekker. Live long and prosper, my friend.
By the 23rd century, the humans and aliens of the Milky Way galaxy have come together to establish the United Federation of Planets, an interstellar government which strives to maintain peace between all forms of intelligent life. To strengthen such relations, they have sent out a Starfleet crew in the Federation vessel, the USS Enterprise, led by the steadfast Earth man Captain James T. Kirk, on a five-year mission to explore space. The Enterprise crew encounter and befriend a variety of beings—some strange and intriguing, others as old and wise as creation itself—, and experience cosmic phenomena both wondrous and perilous, while facing off against sworn enemies like the cunning Romulans and the deadly Klingons, all in their quest to share what they know and learn what they can so that they may protect the universe and all its myriad races.
Believe it or not, there was a time when the future of Star Trek was threatened by low ratings. Only a massive fan-mail campaign ensured TOS a third season at all, yet no number of letters could save it from an unceremonious cancellation in 1969. But then, syndicated reruns began. All of a sudden, its popularity soared; viewers from all over the country were crying out for more Star Trek! As neither another live-action show nor a feature film was a feasible option, creator Gene Roddenberry approved an animated show instead. Not to be confused with 2021’s Lower Decks, this first animated spin-off is a direct continuation of the live-action series of the 60’s and brought back nearly all of the main cast to voice their reprised roles.
- William Shatner as Captain Kirk: brave, earnest, and fully dedicated to his mission to preserve and protect:
KIRK: (To the magic-wielding inhabitants of Megus-Tu.) Look at General Order #1, “No starship may interfere with the normal development of any alien life or society.” Compare that with the Earth you once knew.
- Leonard Nimoy as the ever impassive and logical Vulcan First Officer Spock:
SPOCK: An incredible experience, Captain. If find this scientifically fascinating.
- DeForest Kelley as Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy, aka “Bones”, who brings a human heart to his hi-tech healing:
BONES: (To Spock, passionately.) I’m a doctor, Spock, a doctor! Get us beamed aboard.
- James Doohan as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, or “Scotty,” to whom the Enterprise is both family and home:
SCOTTY: (Preparing to shut down the ship’s main computer.) Time for a nap, old girl. Captain's orders.
- Majel Barrett as Bones’ loyal assistant, Head Nurse Christine Chapel:
NURSE CHAPEL: Our halo fish is bright as ever, Doctor. Now, this species loses all color at the least environmental change.
Initially only these five were to return due to budget concerns, but Nimoy firmly refused to participate unless African-American Nichelle Nichols as Communications Officer Nyota Uhura—as compassionate as she is intelligent—and Japanese-American George Takei as the calm, collected, and informed Helmsman Hikaru Sulu, were brought back as well. He argued that not only were they, too, struggling for work at the time, but to leave them out would deny the very principle of inclusion and racial diversity the first show stood for. Needless to say, this was quickly rectified.
UHURA: Please believe me. There’s no reason to harm [the crew].
MASTER COMPUTER: They serve the sky machine, but they are not essential.
URURA: Oh, but they are. They’re most essential.
_____
SULU: (To the Kzini leader, Chuft Captain.) The Kzinti fought four wars with humankind and lost all of them. The last one was 200 years ago, and you haven’t learned a thing since.
But I’d be remiss for not mentioning Walter Koenig, whose Russian character, Ensign Pavel Checov, was unfortunately cut. As compensation, he was asked to pen an episode, “The Infinite Vulcan,” with the added bonus of the Retlaw plant as a tribute and fun little Easter egg (“retlaw” being his first name spelled backwards):
KIRK: What happened to [Sulu]?
AGMAR: He was bitten by the Retlaw plant. It is deadly only if unattended.
KIRK: (Impressed.) Your medication worked quickly.
AGMAR: (Dismissive.) A minor achievement.
On a similar note, Spock was sadly the only non-human crew member of the Enterprise in TOS (half-human heritage aside). This was resolved with the addition of two new recurring alien characters. One was Lt. Arex, a tripodal Endosian. If E.T. was man-sized and thinner, with bright orange skin, three arms and legs each, and a high trumpet-like voice, he’d be something like Arex. He is usually seen at the helm alongside Sulu:
AREX: (Viewing the space cloud.) It’s immense. Twice the diameters of Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune together!
KIRK: Put up our present position, Lieutenant Arex.
AREX: Yes, Captain.
The other was Lt. M’Ress, an attractive felinoid female of the Caitian race. She sometimes takes over for Uhura as Communications Officer and strongly resembles a lion, sporting golden brown fur, a tufted tail, a mane-like hairstyle, and a soft, husky voice often punctuated by strong purring:
M’Ress: Emergency rescue party is aboard the shuttlecraft, Mr. Scott. All hatches secured. *Purr*
Unlike its predecessor, this was a half-hour Saturday morning cartoon for all ages rather than an hour-long drama for teens and adults. It was animated by the now defunct Filmation, well known for producing its shows as quickly and cheaply as possible via limited animation. TAS was no exception. Of particular note, fixed stock shots of characters are plentiful, movement coming only from mouths and eyes (including Spock’s famous raised eyebrow), with the former sometimes hidden entirely by hands or extreme close-ups. While matching the relatively blank faces to vocal emotions is seldom problematic, this can unfortunately cause the few legitimate facial expressions to appear sickly or even creepy. But let’s give some credit where it’s due, shall we? The actors’ likenesses are very accurate, and the rotoscoping of the Enterprise blueprints created for TOS more authentically captures the ship’s meticulous details. Besides, it’s not like we sharp-eyed cartoon connoisseurs haven’t seen recycled footage before. Just look at classic Hanna-Barbara and Disney, not to mentions dozens of anime both old and new.
But what TAS may have lacked visually, it made up for narratively. Animation offered a creative freedom TOS couldn’t afford, allowing for new worlds, scenarios, and of course, aliens, that would have been too costly and impractical for live action. Examples include Kirk and Spock being turned into water-breathers by the reclusive fish-like inhabitants of Argo:
AQUAN: The surgo-op was excellent. They have mutated perfectly!
KIRK: (Holds up a webbed hand.) Your scientists induced these mutations?
DOMAR: We do not wish to kill, even air-breathers.
A bombardment of planetary radiation which causes the crew to shrink rapidly:
KIRK: Captain’s Log, Stardate 5577.7. We will lose effective control of this vessel at the point when we have become approximately one centimeter tall. At the present rate, we will reach this less-than-fingernail length in 32 minutes.
Bem, the arrogant colony alien commander of Pandro who selfishly uses his separation ability to trick Kirk:
KIRK: (Frustrated.) Commander Bem, if you could split yourself into separate parts, why didn’t you escape on your own earlier?
BEM: (Smugly.) And deny you the opportunity to prove your value to planet Pandro by rescuing this one from possibly dangerous situation?
And an alternate time-reversed universe which regresses the crew into children:
KIRK: (Now a teenager.) How’s our course, Mr. Sulu?
SULU: (Also a teenager, confused.) I don’t know. What am I doing here? What is all this equipment?
SPOCK: He’s too young, Captain.
Strangely, the greatest controversy surrounding TAS doesn’t revolve around quality or content, but rather its status as franchise canon.
WHY?! Because it’s a cartoon?!
But rather than going all Trekkie stereotype on everyone, I’m going to calmly and logically point out that not only is Roddenberry himself credited as Creative Consultant, but TOS head writer Dorothy Fontana has gone on record saying this show is effectively the previous show’s fourth season. Plus, when Filmation co-founder Lou Scheimer initially proposed to make TAS exclusively educational for children, Roddenberry put his foot down: either make it like the old show, or don’t make it at all.
But of course, the new show still needed the 70’s equivalent of a TV-7 rating.
I think this is TAS’s most impressive aspect: being more family-friendly without sacrificing what TOS fans loved. The cast’s traits, personalities, and interactions are spot on, right down to the legendary bickering between Spock and Bones:
BONES: (To Lucian, irked.) Being in one piece is very natural where we come from.
SPOCK: I find all this quite absorbing, Doctor.
BONES: Probably because you’re not very natural to begin with, Spock.
The show did offer elementary science lessons to explain as well as compliment the exciting Saturday morning dilemmas:
SPOCK: The wave tends to wind tight such spiral molecules as dilithium. There is one other molecular structure.
KIRK: Of course. The double helix of DNA, nucleus of every cell in our bodies. What happens when DNA is compacted completely?
BONES: The strands wouldn’t break, Jim, they’d just quit winding.
KIRK: Then we can calculate the limits to our shrinkage.
But like its predecessor, TAS was never afraid to offer its younger audience social commentary few other children’s shows at the time would dare touch. Uhura—a black woman—once commands the Enterprise when all its male crew are incapacitated by siren-like beings:
URURA: (Recording a ship’s log.) Due to Chief Engineering Officer Scott’s euphoric state of mind, I’m assuming command of the Enterprise. [. . .] (To Nurse Chapel.) Nurse Chapel, until further notice, you will act as Chief Medical Officer.
NURSE CHAPEL: Yes, Lieutenant.
Pet euthanasia is addressed through a young Spock bidding farewell to his beloved sehlat, I-Chaya:
YOUNG SPOCK: (To the Vulcan Healer.) Is there nothing you can do?
HEALER: I can prolong his life, but he will be in pain, or I can release him from life.
[. . .]
YOUNG SPOCK: (Composed.) Release him. It is fitting he dies with peace and dignity.
But arguably the most provocative is when Kirk defends the satyr-like Lucian—implied to be the Devil himself—as a fellow living being:
ASMODEUS: (To Kirk, amazed.) Would you defend him still if you knew he had another name, too? The Rollicker. The Tempter. Lucifer!
(Thunder cracks loudly to emphasize his point.)
KIRK: (Firmly.) We’re not interested in legend. He’s a living being, an intelligent life-form. That’s all we have to know about him. We will not join in harming him.
It was this exact mature writing which scored the franchise its greatest achievement up to then: the 1974 Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program. The submitted episode, “Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth,” uses the conflict between the crew and the Mayan wyvern-like deity, Kukulkan, to illustrate the somber truth that children can’t stay dependent on their elders forever, no matter the latter’s good intentions, lest the former lose the ability to think and learn for themselves:
KIRK: Because we have minds, we can’t be what you wanted us to be. If we fail or succeed, it has to be our own doing. Intelligent life is too precious a thing to be led by the nose.
KUKULKAN: (With increasing sadness.) But you are my children. I hoped I could teach you. Help you.
KIRK: (Reassuring.) You did long ago when it was needed most. Our people were children then. (Trying to be kind.) Kukulkan, we’ve grown up now. We don’t need you anymore.
KUKULKAN: (Resigned.) I will let you go your own way. I have already done all I can.
I’m really glad this series was seen for the artistic goldmine it was, rather than just the literal one. More elements from here than I can name have since been adopted and utilized in future spin-offs and films, from The Next Generation series in the 90’s all the way up to J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot and beyond. I believe that this, along with the aforementioned credits, should be proof enough of its rightful place in Star Trek lore. But regardless of the canon debate, all the original show’s thrilling action, stimulating concepts, and admirable character development abound in Star Trek: The Animated Series, the little sci-fi cartoon that helped its franchise help future generations boldly go where no imagination had gone before.
CREDITS:
All images, audio, and links belong to their respective owners; no copyright infringement is intended.
MAIN THEME:
“The Call” – Briand Morrison and Roxann Berglund
By the 23rd century, the humans and aliens of the Milky Way galaxy have come together to establish the United Federation of Planets, an interstellar government which strives to maintain peace between all forms of intelligent life. To strengthen such relations, they have sent out a Starfleet crew in the Federation vessel, the USS Enterprise, led by the steadfast Earth man Captain James T. Kirk, on a five-year mission to explore space. The Enterprise crew encounter and befriend a variety of beings—some strange and intriguing, others as old and wise as creation itself—, and experience cosmic phenomena both wondrous and perilous, while facing off against sworn enemies like the cunning Romulans and the deadly Klingons, all in their quest to share what they know and learn what they can so that they may protect the universe and all its myriad races.
Believe it or not, there was a time when the future of Star Trek was threatened by low ratings. Only a massive fan-mail campaign ensured TOS a third season at all, yet no number of letters could save it from an unceremonious cancellation in 1969. But then, syndicated reruns began. All of a sudden, its popularity soared; viewers from all over the country were crying out for more Star Trek! As neither another live-action show nor a feature film was a feasible option, creator Gene Roddenberry approved an animated show instead. Not to be confused with 2021’s Lower Decks, this first animated spin-off is a direct continuation of the live-action series of the 60’s and brought back nearly all of the main cast to voice their reprised roles.
- William Shatner as Captain Kirk: brave, earnest, and fully dedicated to his mission to preserve and protect:
KIRK: (To the magic-wielding inhabitants of Megus-Tu.) Look at General Order #1, “No starship may interfere with the normal development of any alien life or society.” Compare that with the Earth you once knew.
- Leonard Nimoy as the ever impassive and logical Vulcan First Officer Spock:
SPOCK: An incredible experience, Captain. If find this scientifically fascinating.
- DeForest Kelley as Chief Medical Officer Leonard McCoy, aka “Bones”, who brings a human heart to his hi-tech healing:
BONES: (To Spock, passionately.) I’m a doctor, Spock, a doctor! Get us beamed aboard.
- James Doohan as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, or “Scotty,” to whom the Enterprise is both family and home:
SCOTTY: (Preparing to shut down the ship’s main computer.) Time for a nap, old girl. Captain's orders.
- Majel Barrett as Bones’ loyal assistant, Head Nurse Christine Chapel:
NURSE CHAPEL: Our halo fish is bright as ever, Doctor. Now, this species loses all color at the least environmental change.
Initially only these five were to return due to budget concerns, but Nimoy firmly refused to participate unless African-American Nichelle Nichols as Communications Officer Nyota Uhura—as compassionate as she is intelligent—and Japanese-American George Takei as the calm, collected, and informed Helmsman Hikaru Sulu, were brought back as well. He argued that not only were they, too, struggling for work at the time, but to leave them out would deny the very principle of inclusion and racial diversity the first show stood for. Needless to say, this was quickly rectified.
UHURA: Please believe me. There’s no reason to harm [the crew].
MASTER COMPUTER: They serve the sky machine, but they are not essential.
URURA: Oh, but they are. They’re most essential.
_____
SULU: (To the Kzini leader, Chuft Captain.) The Kzinti fought four wars with humankind and lost all of them. The last one was 200 years ago, and you haven’t learned a thing since.
But I’d be remiss for not mentioning Walter Koenig, whose Russian character, Ensign Pavel Checov, was unfortunately cut. As compensation, he was asked to pen an episode, “The Infinite Vulcan,” with the added bonus of the Retlaw plant as a tribute and fun little Easter egg (“retlaw” being his first name spelled backwards):
KIRK: What happened to [Sulu]?
AGMAR: He was bitten by the Retlaw plant. It is deadly only if unattended.
KIRK: (Impressed.) Your medication worked quickly.
AGMAR: (Dismissive.) A minor achievement.
On a similar note, Spock was sadly the only non-human crew member of the Enterprise in TOS (half-human heritage aside). This was resolved with the addition of two new recurring alien characters. One was Lt. Arex, a tripodal Endosian. If E.T. was man-sized and thinner, with bright orange skin, three arms and legs each, and a high trumpet-like voice, he’d be something like Arex. He is usually seen at the helm alongside Sulu:
AREX: (Viewing the space cloud.) It’s immense. Twice the diameters of Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune together!
KIRK: Put up our present position, Lieutenant Arex.
AREX: Yes, Captain.
The other was Lt. M’Ress, an attractive felinoid female of the Caitian race. She sometimes takes over for Uhura as Communications Officer and strongly resembles a lion, sporting golden brown fur, a tufted tail, a mane-like hairstyle, and a soft, husky voice often punctuated by strong purring:
M’Ress: Emergency rescue party is aboard the shuttlecraft, Mr. Scott. All hatches secured. *Purr*
Unlike its predecessor, this was a half-hour Saturday morning cartoon for all ages rather than an hour-long drama for teens and adults. It was animated by the now defunct Filmation, well known for producing its shows as quickly and cheaply as possible via limited animation. TAS was no exception. Of particular note, fixed stock shots of characters are plentiful, movement coming only from mouths and eyes (including Spock’s famous raised eyebrow), with the former sometimes hidden entirely by hands or extreme close-ups. While matching the relatively blank faces to vocal emotions is seldom problematic, this can unfortunately cause the few legitimate facial expressions to appear sickly or even creepy. But let’s give some credit where it’s due, shall we? The actors’ likenesses are very accurate, and the rotoscoping of the Enterprise blueprints created for TOS more authentically captures the ship’s meticulous details. Besides, it’s not like we sharp-eyed cartoon connoisseurs haven’t seen recycled footage before. Just look at classic Hanna-Barbara and Disney, not to mentions dozens of anime both old and new.
But what TAS may have lacked visually, it made up for narratively. Animation offered a creative freedom TOS couldn’t afford, allowing for new worlds, scenarios, and of course, aliens, that would have been too costly and impractical for live action. Examples include Kirk and Spock being turned into water-breathers by the reclusive fish-like inhabitants of Argo:
AQUAN: The surgo-op was excellent. They have mutated perfectly!
KIRK: (Holds up a webbed hand.) Your scientists induced these mutations?
DOMAR: We do not wish to kill, even air-breathers.
A bombardment of planetary radiation which causes the crew to shrink rapidly:
KIRK: Captain’s Log, Stardate 5577.7. We will lose effective control of this vessel at the point when we have become approximately one centimeter tall. At the present rate, we will reach this less-than-fingernail length in 32 minutes.
Bem, the arrogant colony alien commander of Pandro who selfishly uses his separation ability to trick Kirk:
KIRK: (Frustrated.) Commander Bem, if you could split yourself into separate parts, why didn’t you escape on your own earlier?
BEM: (Smugly.) And deny you the opportunity to prove your value to planet Pandro by rescuing this one from possibly dangerous situation?
And an alternate time-reversed universe which regresses the crew into children:
KIRK: (Now a teenager.) How’s our course, Mr. Sulu?
SULU: (Also a teenager, confused.) I don’t know. What am I doing here? What is all this equipment?
SPOCK: He’s too young, Captain.
Strangely, the greatest controversy surrounding TAS doesn’t revolve around quality or content, but rather its status as franchise canon.
WHY?! Because it’s a cartoon?!
But rather than going all Trekkie stereotype on everyone, I’m going to calmly and logically point out that not only is Roddenberry himself credited as Creative Consultant, but TOS head writer Dorothy Fontana has gone on record saying this show is effectively the previous show’s fourth season. Plus, when Filmation co-founder Lou Scheimer initially proposed to make TAS exclusively educational for children, Roddenberry put his foot down: either make it like the old show, or don’t make it at all.
But of course, the new show still needed the 70’s equivalent of a TV-7 rating.
I think this is TAS’s most impressive aspect: being more family-friendly without sacrificing what TOS fans loved. The cast’s traits, personalities, and interactions are spot on, right down to the legendary bickering between Spock and Bones:
BONES: (To Lucian, irked.) Being in one piece is very natural where we come from.
SPOCK: I find all this quite absorbing, Doctor.
BONES: Probably because you’re not very natural to begin with, Spock.
The show did offer elementary science lessons to explain as well as compliment the exciting Saturday morning dilemmas:
SPOCK: The wave tends to wind tight such spiral molecules as dilithium. There is one other molecular structure.
KIRK: Of course. The double helix of DNA, nucleus of every cell in our bodies. What happens when DNA is compacted completely?
BONES: The strands wouldn’t break, Jim, they’d just quit winding.
KIRK: Then we can calculate the limits to our shrinkage.
But like its predecessor, TAS was never afraid to offer its younger audience social commentary few other children’s shows at the time would dare touch. Uhura—a black woman—once commands the Enterprise when all its male crew are incapacitated by siren-like beings:
URURA: (Recording a ship’s log.) Due to Chief Engineering Officer Scott’s euphoric state of mind, I’m assuming command of the Enterprise. [. . .] (To Nurse Chapel.) Nurse Chapel, until further notice, you will act as Chief Medical Officer.
NURSE CHAPEL: Yes, Lieutenant.
Pet euthanasia is addressed through a young Spock bidding farewell to his beloved sehlat, I-Chaya:
YOUNG SPOCK: (To the Vulcan Healer.) Is there nothing you can do?
HEALER: I can prolong his life, but he will be in pain, or I can release him from life.
[. . .]
YOUNG SPOCK: (Composed.) Release him. It is fitting he dies with peace and dignity.
But arguably the most provocative is when Kirk defends the satyr-like Lucian—implied to be the Devil himself—as a fellow living being:
ASMODEUS: (To Kirk, amazed.) Would you defend him still if you knew he had another name, too? The Rollicker. The Tempter. Lucifer!
(Thunder cracks loudly to emphasize his point.)
KIRK: (Firmly.) We’re not interested in legend. He’s a living being, an intelligent life-form. That’s all we have to know about him. We will not join in harming him.
It was this exact mature writing which scored the franchise its greatest achievement up to then: the 1974 Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program. The submitted episode, “Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth,” uses the conflict between the crew and the Mayan wyvern-like deity, Kukulkan, to illustrate the somber truth that children can’t stay dependent on their elders forever, no matter the latter’s good intentions, lest the former lose the ability to think and learn for themselves:
KIRK: Because we have minds, we can’t be what you wanted us to be. If we fail or succeed, it has to be our own doing. Intelligent life is too precious a thing to be led by the nose.
KUKULKAN: (With increasing sadness.) But you are my children. I hoped I could teach you. Help you.
KIRK: (Reassuring.) You did long ago when it was needed most. Our people were children then. (Trying to be kind.) Kukulkan, we’ve grown up now. We don’t need you anymore.
KUKULKAN: (Resigned.) I will let you go your own way. I have already done all I can.
I’m really glad this series was seen for the artistic goldmine it was, rather than just the literal one. More elements from here than I can name have since been adopted and utilized in future spin-offs and films, from The Next Generation series in the 90’s all the way up to J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot and beyond. I believe that this, along with the aforementioned credits, should be proof enough of its rightful place in Star Trek lore. But regardless of the canon debate, all the original show’s thrilling action, stimulating concepts, and admirable character development abound in Star Trek: The Animated Series, the little sci-fi cartoon that helped its franchise help future generations boldly go where no imagination had gone before.
CREDITS:
All images, audio, and links belong to their respective owners; no copyright infringement is intended.
MAIN THEME:
“The Call” – Briand Morrison and Roxann Berglund
EPISODE SONG:
“An Exploratory Enterprise” - Sean Zarn
“An Exploratory Enterprise” - Sean Zarn
All other music and sound clips are from Star Trek: The Animated Series (directed by Hal Sutherland and Bill Reed; based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry; produced by Filmation, Norway Productions, and Paramount Television Service; distributed by Paramount Television Distribution and CBS Television Distribution).
EPISODES:
Season 1, Ep. 2: “Yesteryear”
Season 1, Ep. 3: “One of Our Planets is Missing”
Season 1, Ep. 4: “The Lorelai Signal”
Season 1, Ep. 7: “The Infinite Vulcan”
Season 1, Ep. 8: “The Magicks of Magas-Tu”
Season 1, Ep. 9: “Once Upon a Planet”
Season 1, Ep. 11: “The Terratin Incident”
Season 1, Ep. 13: “The Ambergris Element”
Season 1, Ep. 14: “The Slaver Weapon”
Season 2, Ep. 2: “Bem”
Season 2, Ep. 3: “The Practical Joker”
Season 2, Ep. 4: “Albatross”
Season 2, Ep. 5: “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth”
Season 2, Ep. 6: “The Counter-Clock Incident”
Download the full 15-minute episode here!
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Wikipedia
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Star Trek's Official Website
Star Trek: The Animated Series on IMDb
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Fandom
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Tv Tropes
Watch Star Trek: The Animated Series on Paramount+
Buy and watch Star Trek: The Animated Series on Amazon
Buy Star Trek: The Animated Series on Ebay
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EPISODES:
Season 1, Ep. 2: “Yesteryear”
Season 1, Ep. 3: “One of Our Planets is Missing”
Season 1, Ep. 4: “The Lorelai Signal”
Season 1, Ep. 7: “The Infinite Vulcan”
Season 1, Ep. 8: “The Magicks of Magas-Tu”
Season 1, Ep. 9: “Once Upon a Planet”
Season 1, Ep. 11: “The Terratin Incident”
Season 1, Ep. 13: “The Ambergris Element”
Season 1, Ep. 14: “The Slaver Weapon”
Season 2, Ep. 2: “Bem”
Season 2, Ep. 3: “The Practical Joker”
Season 2, Ep. 4: “Albatross”
Season 2, Ep. 5: “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth”
Season 2, Ep. 6: “The Counter-Clock Incident”
Download the full 15-minute episode here!
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Wikipedia
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Star Trek's Official Website
Star Trek: The Animated Series on IMDb
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Fandom
Star Trek: The Animated Series on Tv Tropes
Watch Star Trek: The Animated Series on Paramount+
Buy and watch Star Trek: The Animated Series on Amazon
Buy Star Trek: The Animated Series on Ebay
^^ Back to T.V. Shows, Web Series, and Other Narrative Programs