Star Trek The Animated Series - The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek
by Bill Reed
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Actor: Majel Barrett, William ShatnerDirector: Bill Reed
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 526 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Star Trek The Animated Series - The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek
Movie Review: Not the original series... but it did have something to offer.
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a huge Star Trek fan. I loved all eleven films, the original series, the next generation, DS9, voyager, and enterprise. But the original series was always my favorite one out of five television series that they made. The Animated Series is a continuation of the original series - almost. The actors and charaters are all there, so is the Enterprise, and the Klingons and the Romulans, even Mudd and the Tribbles; but it just isn't the same. The stories are often lacking, it seems to be aimed more at children, and the episodes are all rushed. But every now and then, it did seem to sparkle. After all it does have the same actors and charaters in it, and not all of the episodes were bad. There were a few good episodes like "Beyond the Farthest Star", "More Tribbles, More Troubles", "Once Upon a Planet", and "The Time Trap". Maybe not worth a whole lot of money, but if you can find it for 10 or 15 bucks, it is worth buying just for those few good episodes.
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Summary of Star Trek The Animated Series - The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek
Boldly continuing where Star Trek: The Original Series left off, these animated adventures chart the progress of Captain Kirk and his crew in a universe unconstrained by "real-life" cinematography! With all characters voiced by their original actors, join Kirk, Spock, Bones and the crew for 22 new adventures: to boldly go where no animation has gone before!Star Trek: The Animated Series is often referred to as Star Trek's "fourth season" because it was created in 1973, four years after the third and final season of the original series, and because most of the original cast provided the voices. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Majel Barrett reprised their characters, and some contributed other voices as well. The only major omission was Walter Koenig's Chekov, who was replaced at the navigation console by Lieutenant Arex, the three-armed alien who most prominently represented the series' freedom to create non-humanoid characters. (Koenig did write an episode.) And while the animation is crude at best, the stories are solid sci-fi (penned by some of Star Trek's veteran writers including DC Fontana and David Gerrold, all of whom received prominent opening credits), explored the Star Trek mythos, and elevated the series above typical Saturday-morning fare. For example, "Yesteryear" goes back to Spock's early years on Vulcan, continuing some explorations from the original series' "Journey to Babel," and offers the familiar voice of Mark Lenard as Sarek. "One of Our Planets Is Missing" raises some interesting philosophical questions about the value of life, and "More Tribbles, More Troubles" and "Mudd's Passion" revisit favorite characters. Star Trek: The Animated Series lasted just barely over one season, but it won the franchise's only Emmy (for Outstanding Entertainment Children's Series in 1975) and some of its ideas were embraced by future series. Trekkers who know it only by reputation will find it a valuable part of the Star Trek canon. In addition to the series' 22 half-hour episodes, the DVD set includes "Drawn to the Final Frontier: The Making of Star Trek: The Animated Series," a 24-minute featurette including interviews with the producers and writers (but not actors) on how the series was created and why it still holds up; "What's the Star Trek Connection?", a glossary of characters and themes common to the animated series and other series; a storyboard gallery; and a brief text history. Writer David Gerrold and producer David Wise contribute audio commentaries on three and one episode, respectively, and the ever-reliable Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda provide text commentary on three other episodes. --David Horiuchi
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