I just shared the picture with an English friend, and an Idea occured to me. What if the reason why they have cargo drones in the animated series is because of how easily Charles Evans destroyed the ANTARES? I.e., the simple removal of an already warped baffle plate? Perhaps the shipyard engineers realized that despite the undoable deaths, Mister Evens did them a favor by showing a design flaw, too dangerous for humans and aliens, but not for mere drones. Perhaps even having people aboard lead to the problem in the first place. Also, hey, what if they made the ships not just simply computer automated, but for mainentance tasks, they gave them drone crews like the VALLEY FORGE and BERSKHIRE had in the movie “SILENT RUNNING”? Just an idea.

Wow! Nice image! Thanks a lot! I wrote too soon at another site that I couldn’t find any pictures, yet the next site I find has one!

I noticed some debates here, but I’ll avoid those for now as this is my first posting here.

By the way, they made the ANTARES the way I’d always thought it must be once I’d seen the animated series.

The cast are very nice people to meet in person.

Oh, and the animated series suddenly became non-canon because one episode featured Magic. A staple for the Fantasy Genre, not the Science–Fiction genre. The episode writer’s pick-up truck needed a jump start assist from my car, and while we worked on that, we talked about it. He was bitter about it then. Now if the new owners intend to retcon the canon status of the animated episodes, I’m anxious to see how they deal with that!

Should the little iguana in the corridor be cgi’ed as well? What about Rand’s ass when Charlie slaps it? LMAO!!!!

They are likely NOT going to change it. It’s not worth their time.

Damn. Do I have to beat some sense into you? LMAO!!!

> Leave it alone…not EVERYTHING needs to be cgi…

Who said anything about making everything CGI?

> If they didn’t replace the readouts in WNHGB (when Mitchell was
> reading them quickly) don’t expect something like that face wipe…

However, they did change Norman’s stomach panel in I, Mudd.

…(which was a “if you blink you miss it shot”) to be changed…

Again you miss the dramatic point of the shot, no matter how long it lasts in duration.

If they didn’t replace the readouts in WNHGB (when Mitchell was reading them quickly) don’t expect something like that face wipe (which was a “if you blink you miss it shot”) to be changed…

LMAO!!!!

The point is that you don’t need to “thow the baby out with the bathwater,” a TOS movie needs to have TOS designs. Not some reimagined monstrosity.