Comments on: Filmation’s Lou Scheimer Talks TAS

By: FredCFO

FredCFO — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:29:23 +0000

TAS was great to have during the great Star Trek drought in the 1970’s, but it is somewhat painful to watch these days.

There were only 22 episodes, 16 the first year and 6 the second. NBC repeated them so many times, I thought TAS had gone into syndication simultaneously with the first run.

I thought Kirk’s middle name was always pretty stupid — Tiberius. A common middle name in Iowa, no doubt.

My favorite episode, nonetheless, was “The Slaver Weapon”.

It would be interesting to see a CGI remaster using the original soundtrack from TOS.

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:32:33 +0000

TAS captures the feel of TOS very nicely. In some ways, it’s a very ’safe’ series. It doesn’t do anything particularly new with Star Trek, beyond the odd bigger landscape or space vessel. In that sense, the first two movies represented a bold step, as did TNG in trying to move Star Trek beyond the confines of TOS’ style.

But I regard TAS as perfectly acceptable Star Trek. It has a certain ‘gee-whizz!’ quality that was also present in TOS and the various 70s comicbooks and novels.

By: Kevin Finnerty

Kevin Finnerty — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:19:37 +0000

#46 Kevin,
You say canon is bad, and we should n’t get that serious about this. I liked TAS, but to say that it is more canonical than any other series just because it used the voice talents of the TOS actors makes little sense in my opinion.

#47 Xai

I’m tweaking TNG, DS9, and VOY fans a bit here. There little dog and pony shows were OK TV, but I never considered them Star Trek. My logic is this: if ST is Kirk and Co, and they are played by Shatner and Co, then anything that brings us ST with Kirk/Shat and Co is most like ST, ergo TAS is closer to ST than Picard on his most earnest day. Entirely sensible. And TNG annoyed me in its first moments on the air with “to boldly go where no ONE has gone before.” I knew we were in for a bland PC-athon. Pass. Well, I waited for McCoy to appear, then I turned it off. Just my opinion.

By: Craig Mitchell

Craig Mitchell — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:57:14 +0000

SUNG TO ORIGINAL FAT ALBERT CARTOON THEME SONG

Hey, hey HEY………………I’m FAAAAAAAAAAAT Albert…

And I’m gonna have a stroke for You..UUUUUUUUUUUUU

And maybe Diabetes too…………………………..

I outweigh Bill and all the gang now..topping 515…

Tune every Saturday….As I eat every THINGGGGGGGGG!!

Ya…Ya…Ya….gonna get a RAS – CAL!! Hey..HEy….HEY!!!!!!1

Ya…Ya…Ya…gonna drive a RAS – CAL!!! Hey..Hey…Hey!!!!!!!

By: Xai

Xai — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:14:16 +0000

By: Kevin Finnerty

Kevin Finnerty — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:03:19 +0000

I posted the CGI idea on imdb a long time ago (aren’t I smart!). It could be great, as other have said. Use TOS music and CGI, and we’re in!

And the next person who uses the word “canon” about Star Trek should be flogged with a geek stick. Star Trek is the adventures of Kirk, Spock, McCoy and company, period. TAS has the voices of nearly all the original ST actors, even if Kelley mailed his in, it is his voice. That makes TAS more “canonical” than any crappy later version of ST. “Canon” refers to church teachings. Let’s not get that serious about all this.

By: norm

norm — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:09:07 +0000

I would like to see them re-do the animation with all cgi.

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:10:14 +0000

Bring on a Remastered TOS:ANIMATED SERIES…lets just hope that they have a decent budget and timescale to do it real justice… ;)

By: omf

omf — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:20:19 +0000

Off-topic, but I found this as I was looking through some of the other Trek clips on YouTube. One more reason to love Shatner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55YD8QhQ3o&

By: omf

omf — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:45:21 +0000

I remember being so excited when I saw the first teaser for that game! Thanks for the link to that other trailer, though – I’m surprised I never saw it before. I’d love to see all the other material that was created for that game.

Here’s a little article that came out last year mentioning SoVF:
http://www.twitchguru.com/2006/07/20/the_best_games_never_published/page2.html