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Yesteryear alone makes watching TAS worth it.
Also this line that should have been in Community:
Take a walk, Mr. Spock.
What's your ploy, Dr. McCoy?
Naughty naughty, Mr. Scotty!
Bad juju, Mr. Sulu.
It fits like a glove, Pavel Chekov.
Anything you're unsure of, Lieutenant Uhura?
Get those bandages unraveled, if you would, Nurse Chapel.
Why so smiley, Kevin Riley?
TAS gets a fairly well earned bad rap for the shit recycled animation, but the stories are good. Also, Doohan filling in a lot of the additional voices is awesome.
That wasn’t really unique to TAS though. A lot of other Filmation and other companies’ productions had similar cut corners during that time especially. Some of the later 70s Scooby Doo cartoons have backgrounds change mid shot and shit like that even.
My only complaint was that the klingons were apparently Scottish.
Lots of places have a North.
the shit recycled animation
The most egregious example I can think of are these three distinct creatures from three distinct planets that are just recycled sprites/animations:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mechanized_sentinel
And the way some characters would put their hands on their mouths, so the studio wouldn't have to animate their lip movements.
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I also seem to remember a lot of zoomed in faces. I'm wondering now if that was another trick to avoid animating lips
Didn't even change the color 😩
And this one frame appearing in most episodes:
Basically every time I look up a reference I didn't get in Lower Decks, it came from TAS. Starting to feel like I'm missing out.
They’re like episodes of TOS, but speed ran and on (even more) crack. They’re delightful, despite the limited animation.
TAS seems to be all ideas that they had during TOS that they were not able to accomplish with their limited budget in live action but they could get away with in animation. Things like weird non-humanoid alien main characters, characters breathing underwater, characters becoming giants, etc.
I recommend at least watching Yesteryear, the episode about Spock's childhood. That's a good one, written by one of Star Trek's most significant writers, D. C. Fontana.
If you want to learn what the deal is with Spock 2 you'll have to watch a very, very strange episode.
Don't expect anything revolutionary, but I really enjoyed it.
I can't wait to watch Star Trek: Babylon 5
Best I can provide right now is:
That's not Star Trek Babylon V!
That's from Farscape Balls: The Seoich Fore Moar Money.
And the guy on the screen is from Battlestar Galaxy Quest.