Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1974)

[mar3o]

So this has never been corrected?

Star Trek 2 got a replacement for a couple-second shot in the wrong place, and this entire series is out of sync and they didn't fix it?

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by mar3o

So this has never been corrected?

Star Trek 2 got a replacement for a couple-second shot in the wrong place, and this entire series is out of sync and they didn't fix it?

Negative.

[oddbox83]

Thankfully I didn't notice anything wrong, unless it would annoy me.

[brandycherry]

I never spotted anything wrong with TAS.
The one thing that annoys me with TOS is they never corrected the soundtrack errors on season one. Missing audio on both English tracks on The Devil In the Dark and incorrect audio on a brief section of The Menagerie Part 2 surround track although the mono is ok on that one

[Member-38928]

I am currently watching Star Trek the Original Series and I see this animated series is down to $16.99 at Amazon for Cyber Monday so I am going to go ahead and buy it and I will watch it as soon as I have completed TOS. I have never seen this but I am sure I will enjoy it since its somewhat in line with TOS.

Star Trek: The Animated Series

[Member-38928]

Actually it looks like this is only a DOTD so if you for sure want to get in on this then you better buy it today because it will probably be gone come Cyber Monday.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by bentvalve

I am currently watching Star Trek the Original Series and I see this animated series is down to $16.99 at Amazon for Cyber Monday so I am going to go ahead and buy it and I will watch it as soon as I have completed TOS. I have never seen this but I am sure I will enjoy it since its somewhat in line with TOS.

Star Trek: The Animated Series

A monumentally awesome purchase for that price!

[hasslein]

My copy arrived today water damaged and filthy... shipping box pristine, so it left warehouse that way...... The same thing happened with my 50th anniversary set when I ordered at a heavily discounted price a few years ago... They must have a lot of water damaged stock, and send it out as new...

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by hasslein

My copy arrived today water damaged and filthy... shipping box pristine, so it left warehouse that way...... The same thing happened with my 50th anniversary set when I ordered at a heavily discounted price a few years ago... They must have a lot of water damaged stock, and send it out as new...

Where did you order from (so that I can make a point to avoid them at all cost)?

[drb999]

That is really unacceptable. Can you get a refund?

[hasslein]

Amazon... yeah i got a refund...

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by hasslein

Amazon...

Now that they’ve conquered the world, they just don’t give a single shit anymore, huh?

[milojthatch]

Originally Posted by nousefouraname

I still think they should re-animate TAS and release it both the original way and with new graphics, maybe CGI, if they are going to do this. It would be expensive, but it would be way more interesting, and might get it back into syndication if they went that route.

I'd even be happy if they at least color corrected this show. What a wasted opportunity.

[Member-167298]

Is the currently in-print DVD set afflicted with the same sync issue, or do I have to seek out the original DVD release in the big plastic case?

[Duke_45]

Too bad Paramount won’t CGI this in a makeover version. The original cel drawings are so poorly done, it takes away from the adventure happening on the episode.

[Vilya]

I decided to buy this series despite the audio sync issue as I can correct for it with my player.

If I ever saw any of these episodes, it would have been when they first aired on TV all those decades ago. This will be my first viewing of all of them in any case. I hope I like them.

[drb999]

I bought this a few years ago and hadn’t seen them since they originally aired. I wound up being bored by about half of them.

[RillIris]

Originally Posted by Bolty

Does the solo set have disc artwork?

Standard blue Paramount disc in the solo set.

[RillIris]

That I’m not certain on. Would not surprise me if newer copies lack the slip box and art cards though, hopefully someone else knows for sure.

[HDTV1080P]

Unless one is a hardcore Star Trek fan, most people are not aware that there really were 5 seasons of Star Trek containing William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and the majority of the original Star Trek crew. While its true that Star Trek the original series that aired between 1966-1969 for 3 seasons was canceled after the third season. What most people are not aware of, is that between the years 1973 and 1974 two more seasons of Star Trek was made with the original actors (then the series was canceled after its second season). It was not in the budget to do a Star Trek movie or even a standard TV series in 1973, therefore Star Trek: The Animated Series was approved and ran for a total of 22 episodes over two seasons. Each Animated Series episodes are a little over 24 minutes on average for season one and a little over 23 minutes and 30 seconds on average for season two. I grew up in the 1970’s watching TV early on Saturday mornings, but I never saw this Star Trek animated series on NBC TV, but remember watching Land of the Lost and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters on NBC around 1974. Back in the early 1970’s most people did not have cable TV and the choice of channels was limited to over the air broadcast channels like NBC, ABC, CBS, and sometimes PBS. One also had to watch TV live since there was no VCRS or DVR’s to record TV programs. VCRS like the Betamax was not invented until 1976 and VHS in 1977, but for cost reasons most people did not own a VCR until around the year 1984. One of my family members bought their first floor model stereo VHS for $799.99 around the year 1984 and since it was an analog recording system, recorded programs was not as good as quality as live original broadcasts, so even after VCR’s became available, I tried to watch everything live for the best picture and sound quality.

But I was not aware of Star Trek: The Animated TV series even existed. When Star Trek: The Animated Series was released on the 2K Blu-ray format on 11-15-2016, I decided to purchase the TV series since I had never seen it before. I just made time to watch the entire series for the first time in my life. Hopefully in 2026 or sometime in the future Star Trek: The Animated TV series will get a 4K restoration of the original 35mm negatives and released on the 4K Blu-ray format. While some people do not like animated TV series, the animated characters look, act, and sound like the original fictional characters. It is my understanding it was not in the budget to make a Star Trek original TV series season 4 and 5 and instead it was cheaper to make Star Trek: The Animated TV series with season one and two taking off where season three of the original series left off (also it’s a lot easier to do special effects and all kinds of different creatures with an animated series). The included collectable 22 cards that come with the 2K Blu-ray disc series is very neat. At least 3 episodes out of 22 are sequel episodes from the original series. The storylines to the original animated series are very well done and at times sometimes have a better storyline then the original series. Star Trek: The Animated TV series is a not rated TV series and TV series are never summited to the MPA for a rating. However, if Star Trek: The Animated TV series was summitted to the MPA for a rating and if the MPA agreed to rate the TV series, then most likely this TV series would get either a rated G or rated PG. Most likely the MPA would give this TV series a maximum of rated PG (whereas the not rated original series from the 1960’s would get a PG-13 rating in theory if it was summited to the MPA). Star Trek: The Animated TV series contains no alcoholic beverages being drunk and just briefly in one episode Scotty mentions he is going to get a drink. Also, Star Trek: The Animated TV series is more family friendly sense Captain Kirk has zero kissing scenes and no romantic relationships in the animated TV series. In addition, only one kissing scene exists in the entire two seasons and it’s between a husband and wife. So, at the maximum for various reasons some people on the MPA would most likely give this not rated (unrated) animated TV series a PG rating for things like Spock’s pet dying and other difficult but realistic subject matters for children and adults. It was cool seeing Spock’s pet in one of the episodes. One episode had a planet full of devil creatures with a lucifer character that needed to be cast out. One episode had the Star Trek crew shrinking in physical size which was neat. Another episode had the Star Trek crew growing younger in age which was neat episode also. The original Star Trek 1960’s TV series for the main bridge crew had a mixture of men and women and a mixture of different races including a Vulcan alien. The new 1970’s Star Trek: The Animated TV series has a couple of bridge crew members that have animal faces since on their home planet they either evolved or were created like that. Kind of cool for one episode seeing an animal creature in the captain seat taking command. One episode had some of the human Star Trek characters being placed in an alien zoo similar to an animal on earth being placed in a zoo. Some of the evolved or created animal aliens use to eat human beings as food since they were not vegans (If alien life does exist in the Universe, it would be bad if an intelligent advanced animal landed on earth one day and some human being ate the intelligent advanced alien that was an animal from outer space. My point is it would be bad for planetary relations if humans started eating aliens that visit earth). It was neat at times seeing Kirk and Spock hanging around furry intelligent talking animals and sometimes intelligent lizard creatures. Star Trek: The Animated TV series was very well done for an early 1970’s science fiction TV series and sometimes the storylines were better when compared to the 1960’s TV series. Again at least 3 separate sequels to prior episodes from the 1960’s TV series. I wish William Shatner would be Captain Kirk in a new 21st Century Star Trek TV series or movie. At the very minimum a new modern 21st Century Star Trek: The Animated TV series could start with the voice of William Shatner being Captain Kirk. But that is a decision that William Shatner and the studio would need to make.

Star Trek: The Animated TV series was released on the 2K Blu-ray format on 11-15-2016. There is a mixture of 1080P and 480i bonus features. Some episodes have interesting text commentary and audio commentary tracks. Native 2K (1080P) MPEG-4/AVC with lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Master audio soundtrack. All three BD-50 discs played back perfectly fine. Again, this is a family friendly sequel Star Trek TV series with the original Star Trek characters, and an exact voice match, and animated characters that look and act just like the original human actors from the 1960’s.

DISC 1 = 35.5GB
DISC 2 = 42.8GB
DISC 3 = 35.4GB

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