Anybody remember Star Trek: TAS?

[Viper]

It's true! Back in 1973, the people at Filmation decided to create an animated version of Kirk, Spock and the rest in this short-lived NBC Sat-morning show that lasted 2 years. I did see a few eps on Nick when I first got cable in the late-80's. I must admit the animation was pretty good. :)

I'm just curious to know if anyone else remebers it and their opinions on it.

[Chris Wood]

I have extremely vague memories of it as it was a little before my time. From the little I recall it was fairly similar to the 60s TV show.

[StarScream64]

I wasn't around when the show first aired, but I remember that the Sci-Fi Channel used to show it waayy back when the station first began. I had to have seen at least one episode, 'cause I have vague memories of Spock. It would be interesting to see the show now, maybe following the original StarTrek.

[Pietro]

The animated "Star Trek" was another poor series from Filmation and was Gene Roddenberry's poor excuse to delay the first Trek film.

-Pietro:daffy:

[raykremer]

Yeah, I caught a few episodes of that on Nick back in the day. Remember the new bridge crew characters, the cat woman and the three legged guy? When the Star Trek novels did their giant "Gateways" crossover, they shot those two forward in time a hundred years and now they appear in Peter David's "New Frontier" series.

The animated "Star Trek" was another poor series from Filmation and was Gene Roddenberry's poor excuse to delay the first Trek film.
You don't know your Trek history very well, do you? They didn't have plans to do a movie until Star Wars came out in '77 and showed them there was a market for big budget sci-fi films.

[Delia]

utterly random... but yes--- we saw the Trouble with Tribbles animated episode *cough same as show cough* but I found it quite entertaining to take the tv, mute it, and play one of the Dr. Demento collection tracks over it--- and it happened to be the one of the guy at the Drive through ordering the double cheeseburger... and all he gets is this babbled microphone feedback. Spock usually ended up being voiced by the microphone feedback.

For some unholy reason, it seemed to synch up no matter when you played the cd track... and me and my sister laughed ourselves silly.

I liked the show... the characters looked like their TV characters and it was an enjoyable show. The plot seemed exact from the series... but I didnt mind because it's classic trek.

...and who doesn't love tribbles?

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

I could have seen every episode when it aired up here on Space channel or Teletoon (forget which one), but due to lack of interest, I only watched maybe five or so. It was a decent show, I guess. The fact that the original actors did the voices was cool, though they did sound a bit lethargic at times. I do remember being shocked at one episode that had blatantly Satanic overtones. Probably the kind of thing that kids wouldn't get, but the adults would wonder what they were watching! Anyway, it was a decent show for the budget and effort put into it, though it wouldn't have satisfied the fans' desire for new adventures, especially since many were almost the same as the live-action episodes. ;)

[loyalheart]

not really but my father keeps mentioning it lately.

[Rune]

Ahhh yes I used to watch that every week and you can relive it in all its fantastic glory here! (http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/ANI/index.html)

:p :p :p

[Sharklady]

I remember that series.
Though marred by rather static animation, it had at least one episode- 'Yesteryear'- that was worthy of the original ST.

[Bubblegum Girl]

I've never really heard of it. Hey, TvTome has a page on it. Right here (http://www.tvtome.com/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries/).

[Kolbar]

I really liked this series. Some episodes were really great like "Yesteryear" and "Beyond the Farthest Star," but I haven't seen all of them yet. I have all the tapes, but I haven't gotten around to watching the rest of the episodes.

From what I've heard, the series had a very low budget and they couldn't afford Walter Koenig, so Chekov wasn't in the show. At the 2004 Star Trek convention, Majel Barrett said that they almost didn't include Nichelle Nichols and George Takei, but Leonard Nimoy told the producers that if they didn't include them, he wouldn't voice Spock, so Takei and Nichols were added to the cast.

[shogunthethird]

I remember it fairly well, I caught the reruns on Nick..it was my first exposure to the star trek franchise


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we come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty beam me up!

[STARTOUNZ]

Nick-at-Nite TV Land had this series as part of their retro-Saturday morning lineup a few years ago, but they're no longer doing it. They only showed half the episodes though, so I'm still waiting to see the remaining half. Fortunately, there was a recent announcement that TAS will be released on DVD next year. I'm definitely adding this to my collection.

And just out of curiosity, shouldn't this topic be in the General TZ Board? It's unlikely Boomerang will be picking this series anytime soon.

[Jeffrey]

Pietro-The animated "Star Trek" was another poor series from Filmation and was Gene Roddenberry's poor excuse to delay the first Trek film.

Where did you get that he's delaying the first film? From what I read in imdb he only does the show for money.

raykremer-They didn't have plans to do a movie until Star Wars came out in '77 and showed them there was a market for big budget sci-fi films.

According to imdb.com, it's quite the other way around.

After the original "Star Trek" (1966) (http://imdb.com/title/tt0060028/) TV series proved a success in syndication, Paramount became interested in making a "Star Trek" movie. Writers who contributed ideas or draft scripts in 1975-77 included Gene Roddenberry (http://imdb.com/name/nm0734472/), Jon Povill (http://imdb.com/name/nm0693956/), Robert Silverberg (http://imdb.com/name/nm0798844/), John D.F. Black (http://imdb.com/name/nm0085353/), Harlan Ellison (http://imdb.com/name/nm0255196/), Theodore Sturgeon (http://imdb.com/name/nm0836318/), and Ray Bradbury (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001969/). A story called "Star Trek: Planet of Titans" was selected; 'Bryant, Chris' and Allan Scott (II) wrote a script, which was then rewritten by 'Kaufman, Philip' . At this point Star Wars (1977) (http://imdb.com/title/tt0076759/) burst upon the world, and Paramount reacted by canceling "Star Trek: Planet of Titans" before pre-production started. Allegedly they thought there wasn't a sufficient market for another big science-fiction film.

Paramount then announced that they would be creating a new TV network, initially operating one night a week showing Paramount TV-movies and a new "Star Trek" series about the Enterprise's second 5-year mission, with most of the original cast and the title "Star Trek Phase II". It soon became clear that they could not make a go of the new network, but Paramount continued work on the new series in the hope of selling it to one of the existing networks.

For a previous unproduced TV series of his called "Genesis II", Roddenberry had created a story he called "Robot's Return". This was now rewritten for "Star Trek" by Alan Dean Foster (http://imdb.com/name/nm0287669/) under the title "In Thy Image", and proposed as the 2-hour premiere episode of "Star Trek Phase II". However, Paramount executive Michael Eisner (http://imdb.com/name/nm0004894/) responded, "We've been looking for the feature for five years and this is it", and made the final decision to forget the new series and produce the story as a movie.