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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097360316742
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Running Time: 526 minutes
Sales Rank: 3035
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1973
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Product Description:
This animated series continues the adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise taking advantage of the visual freedom of animation to present stories with more alien elements.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 097360316742 Manufacturer No: 031674
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Star Trek: The Animated Series is often referred to as Star Trek's "fourth season" because it was created in 1973, four years after the third and final season of the original series, and because most of the original cast provided the voices. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Majel Barrett reprised their characters, and some contributed other voices as well. The only major omission was Walter Koenig's Chekov, who was replaced at the navigation console by Lieutenant Arex, the three-armed alien who most prominently represented the series' freedom to create non-humanoid characters. (Koenig did write an episode.) And while the animation is crude at best, the stories are solid sci-fi (penned by some of Star Trek's veteran writers including DC Fontana and David Gerrold, all of whom received prominent opening credits), explored the Star Trek mythos, and elevated the series above typical Saturday-morning fare. For example, "Yesteryear" goes back to Spock's early years on Vulcan, continuing some explorations from the original series' "Journey to Babel," and offers the familiar voice of Mark Lenard as Sarek. "One of Our Planets Is Missing" raises some interesting philosophical questions about the value of life, and "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Mudd's Passion" revisit favorite characters. Star Trek: The Animated Series lasted just barely over one season, but it won the franchise's only Emmy (for Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series in 1975) and some of its ideas were embraced by future series. Trekkers who know it only by reputation will find it a valuable part of the Star Trek canon. In addition to the series' 22 half-hour episodes, the DVD set includes "Drawn to the Final Frontier: The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series," a 24-minute featurette including interviews with the producers and writers (but not actors) on how the series was created and why it still holds up; "What's the Star Trek Connection?", a glossary of characters and themes common to the animated series and other series; a storyboard gallery; and a brief text history. Writer David Gerrold and producer David Wise contribute audio commentaries on three and one episode, respectively, and the ever-reliable Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda provide text commentary on three other episodes. --David Horiuchi
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As a big fan of the original series I had hoped that with many of the original voices and scriptwriters, this animated series of Star Trek would in essence be the fourth season of the original series. Unfortunately this isn't the case, which I believe is as a result of two main factors. First of all each episode is half the length of the originals, which dramatically reduces the amount of time spent for character and story development. Having watched all the animated episodes, many of them seemed ... Read More
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From what I had read in various places around the internet, I was hesitant to buy the Animated Series. I am not a true Original Series fanatic, but I truly love Star Trek - in all of its incarnations.
So let me tell you, Star Trek the Animated Series belongs in the canon. There, I said it. I cannot think of any reason why it has been excluded, many of its stories are excellent, and as a whole it has the tone of the live action series and in many cases is just as serious. As for those ... Read More
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I watched these when growing up, and wanted my 9 year old daughter to see them. They are great! Some are better than others (of course), but overall they are very enjoyable. The drawbacks: the animation isn't the best, and they tried to use as few voices as possible. Plus the actors weren't quite as "animated" (pardon the pun) as they were on the original series. Other than this, though, the story lines are mostly quite good and I enjoy most episodes as much as my daughter does.
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I did not see "Star Trek: The Animated Series", during its original broadcast run on NBC, but I do remember seeing a few episodes as they were shown on local channels some years afterward. Having become a fan of "Star Trek" as a teenager, it made sense for me to pick up this Emmy Award-winning series once it became available on DVD, and it was money well spent.
TAS has the same look and feel of other animated series of the era. But the stories have some heft. That's due, in part, to ... Read More
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Star Trek Mind Meld
By J M Barnes
When I was growing up in the 1960's my mom had complete control of what we watched at my home.
Fortunately, mom had a curiosity about new shows. When Star Trek premiered in 1966, we all sat down to watch the show with the good looking Captain and the guy with the pointy ears. My dad knew Deforest Kelly from his western movie days so he looked up from his book once in a while to catch some dialog. However, when the Enterprise streaked by on ... Read More
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