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I cannot add anything else to all the views that have gone before except my personal feelings for this series. It is difficult to describe the significance of this series to Star Trek fans when it came out in '73 and '74. Back then there was almost nothing new in the way of stories or merchandise available (except perhaps for a few comic books.) This series filled a real vacuum. More than that, it was actually faithful to the original (much more than the original movie.) Given the attitude and low budgets for animation in the 70's an animated Star Trek could easily have been a horrible embarrassment, but thankfully it was not. If anything it was actually better in some ways than the original live-action show. In fact, I would have been satisfied with only this series if there had never been another Trek series or movie made. As far as I was concerned these two seasons brought closure to the original five-year mission. Too bad that there wasn't at least a little more. It is a treat being able to watch them again at a reasonable price.
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Being a big fan of the Original Series, I bought this set since it had the actors voicing their animated counterparts. I found this series to be just as fun as the original three, live-action, seasons. I would recommend this series to anyone is either a star trek fan or a parent who is looking for animated shows for their kids.
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Star Trek: The Animated Series is solid entertainment for any Star Trek fan. The story lines are entertaining for adults as well as children. New alien species and characters were introduced which would not have been possible with live actors in the early 1970s. For anyone who watched subsequent Star Trek series such ST Voyager, ST The Next Generation, ST Deep Space Nine, and even Enterprise; the writers for those series mined The Animated Series for story lines as well. Even if this series is not considered "Canon" many future Trek episodes may never have had existence. Overall, it seems a lot of creative free reign was given which added to this series. Future Star Trek series seemed to be hemmed in by continuity considerations. Original series characters such as Harry Mudd, Cyrano Jones, Sarek, and Amanda were revisited as well.
Many viewers are now spoiled by CGI, Pixar, and Anime. The repeated animation and soundtrack loops may be a drawback. The stories are 20+ minutes and resolution of thorny problems seems too easy. For myself, these were not major problems.
The Amazon price is a great bargain. Anyone who is a serious or even a casual Star Trek fan will find this a great addition to their DVD collection.
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I was pleasantly surprised with this set. I gave it a shot partly because of the reviews I've read here, and partly because of the >50% off of MSRP price here on Amazon, LOL! I'm really enjoying the stories which are (for the most part) not dumbed-down, especially refreshing considering it was aimed at the prime demographic of cereal-eating, toy-desiring/buying elementary school kid crowd.
I remember this Sat. morn "cartoon" from it's original airing. Unfortunately, what little I do remember of it is that I didn't care for it as a 10yr. old. As a result, I didn't watch it, or ST:TOS for that matter, much at all. A couple of years later, I developed an affinity for Star Trek which has lasted through to this day, but it was too late to enjoy ST:TAS as it was then off the air...VCR's were then years away.
Despite the rather crude Filmation animation (de rigeur for the day), the stories are quite well-written. Having nearly the entire TOS cast voice the characters is, while totally superfluous and meaningless to the original Sat. morn. crowd, icing on the cake for us trekkies (trekkors/trekkers?). While you can easily tell which aditional characters are being voiced by Majel Barrett, Jimmy Doohan, or Nichele Nichols, they all did a decent job, especially Doohan who voiced 6(!) characters in some episodes!
While this set isn't exactly the "fourth" Star Trek season that some portend, it's certainly a worthwhile purchase and worth your valuable leisure time, especially for ST fans and especially at this price. Kudos to Gene Roddenbery and D.C. Fontana for not taking the cheapo easy-way-out by not recycling wholesale ST:TOS plots for ST:TAS (they did recycle certain TOS elements...like the Guardian Of Forever, but in a benign and entertaining way).
Highly Recommended!
One last word:
As alluded to in my review title, the package this set comes in is very cheesy. Yes, I realize it was supposed to be "styled" like the original TOS series DVD "clamshell" boxes. This one is in white plastic, with orange letters and an orange translucent plastic window, shaped like the Starfleet chevron. Inside, a cardboard sleeve holds small stacked clear plastic DVD trays that are taped together, with a small gatefold on the series particulars. I could have done without it...I'll take "regular" DVD boxes instead, Paramount, thank you very much.
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I'm only 21 years old but I grew up watching the original series but I never saw the animated series until recently when I decided to buy it at my local wal-mart for $14.99 and give it a try. I think this is a great series and in a way the shows are a lot better then on the live action show since being animated, they were allowed to do a whole lot more with the missions, the ships, the aliens and so on, that alone really can get people into the shows. In the live action show you would not have seen two crew members that looked like Lt. Arex and Lt. M'Ress so yeah being that the show is animated helped with making the shows a little better.
What made this show really likable and acceptable is the fact that they used the voices of the original cast and that really helped as well. It would not have gone over well with fans or wouldn't have been considered Star Trek with out the voices of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, and Chapel.
Now the only thing I don't like about this series is the fact that one of my favorite characters, Ensign Pavel Chekov (Water Keonig) is not in the series. My four favorite characters are Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Chekov and with Chekov not in the series it just felt like it was missing something and it deffinelty was.
Other then the fact that Chekov was not in the show, I really liked the show and really got into it. My 8 year old cousin who partially lives with me and who isn't the biggest fan of the Original Series of Star Trek also got really into this series and really liked it to the point where he started watching it all over again. So yeah, this is a very good series. It would have been better if Chekov was in it but oh well, it's still great.
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