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[–] 36 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

TAS gets a fairly well earned bad rap for the shit recycled animation, but the stories are good. Also, Doohan filling in a lot of the additional voices is awesome.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

    the shit recycled animation

    The most egregious example I can think of are these three distinct creatures from three distinct planets that are just recycled sprites/animations:

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago

    That wasn’t really unique to TAS though. A lot of other Filmation and other companies’ productions had similar cut corners during that time especially. Some of the later 70s Scooby Doo cartoons have backgrounds change mid shot and shit like that even.

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    Basically every time I look up a reference I didn't get in Lower Decks, it came from TAS. Starting to feel like I'm missing out.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    They’re like episodes of TOS, but speed ran and on (even more) crack. They’re delightful, despite the limited animation.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago

    TAS seems to be all ideas that they had during TOS that they were not able to accomplish with their limited budget in live action but they could get away with in animation. Things like weird non-humanoid alien main characters, characters breathing underwater, characters becoming giants, etc.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    I recommend at least watching Yesteryear, the episode about Spock's childhood. That's a good one, written by one of Star Trek's most significant writers, D. C. Fontana.

    If you want to learn what the deal is with Spock 2 you'll have to watch a very, very strange episode.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I can't wait to watch Star Trek: Babylon 5

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago* (8 children)

    Yesteryear alone makes watching TAS worth it.

    Also this line that should have been in Community:

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    It fits like a glove, Pavel Chekov.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    just ignore the nutrek as alternate timeline series.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    With the exception of SNW, of course. And Lower Decks, if you count it as Nutrek.

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