Comments on: Star Trek: The Animated Series DVD Set Review

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:50:43 +0000

This series was great. You did a nice write-up here. As far as animated programs go, this was one of the better one…. although I’ve wondered if this program ever fit into Trek canon.

By: Scottie

Scottie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:44:18 +0000

star trek is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Abigail Hepburn

Abigail Hepburn — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:45:39 +0000

I love your animated series. Its everything that the first Enterprise didn’t have and did. Its really loveable and cool. My whole family loved it.
Abbie

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:03:11 +0000

In the DVD release of the animated series, the episode “The Time Trap” deals with the Enterprise getting lost in the Delta Triangle “Sargasso Sea” region of space. In the DVD release, this region of space is black. I remember this episode as a kid, and this region of space was red, not black, in the original network airings.

Why the change?

By: Fred Bronson

Fred Bronson — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:47:14 +0000

Years after I wrote “The Counter-Clock Incident,” Gene made a decision that Robert April was canon.

He read every TAS script, by the way, and scribbled notes in the margins. When Spock tells Kirk that their brains are operating in reverse in the anti-matter universe, Gene wrote in the margin, “Really? How do they pee?”

By: Tagiomaki

Tagiomaki — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:49:25 +0000

Anyone else noticed there hasn’t been an update to this site in over a week? Considering there was one at least every day before…why’d they stop?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:25:55 +0000

Anybody else have problems getting a copy of the animated DVD set without the inner DVD holder(s) being damaged? My copy was cracked and one of the trays had been broken right off where it is held together with tape. I went back to the store and had them open two other copies which also had damage to the inner DVD “taped” trays.

This set is great viewing but I am not sure how I am going to get an undamaged set.

By: Stanky McFibberich

Stanky McFibberich — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:03:06 +0000

Thank you, Josh, #43, for these comments which I wholeheartedly agree with…

“I consider TAS to be far more CANONESQUE’ than DS9,Voyager, and Boobyprize.

Those series exist for me in some alternate illusory reality in which Kirk had a bad dream that Star Trek sucks in the future. “

By: neal

neal — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:30:27 +0000

Bought my copy, watched the first 3 eps last night.

This was ASTOUNDING. I am amazed at how good this was. The stories were brilliant, perfectly akin to the original shows. Cool plots, interesting problems, solid pacing .. all this plus those familiar voices sounding exactly like the TOS era.

I just can’t believe they made these shows for kids! The vocabulary alone outstrips most teens. Check out Scotty’s technobabble riff in “Planet Missing”! And issues of morality and sacrifice and existence? – well, that’s the wonder of Star Trek, the brilliance of not talking down to your audience. I only caught a couple of these back in the day, so for me it’s a whole new universe of brand new Trek. I am in heaven!

BTW, in post #24, I called the animation crappy. I take that back. It seemed to me that the absence of motion was totally compensated by the excellent background paintings. The first episode was stunning eye candy. Comic book style colorful! Yee haw!

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:19:43 +0000

LOL !…Josh my friend, you kill me sometimes.

Yes indeed, there is much CLASSIC Trek goodness in these animated episodes to be enjoyed by those who haven’t yet seen them.