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.

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.

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.
They’re like episodes of TOS, but speed ran and on (even more) crack. They’re delightful, despite the limited animation.
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.
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.
I can't wait to watch Star Trek: Babylon 5
Yesteryear alone makes watching TAS worth it.
Also this line that should have been in Community:

Take a walk, Mr. Spock.
What's your ploy, Dr. McCoy?
Naughty naughty, Mr. Scotty!
Bad juju, Mr. Sulu.
It fits like a glove, Pavel Chekov.
Anything you're unsure of, Lieutenant Uhura?
just ignore the nutrek as alternate timeline series.
With the exception of SNW, of course. And Lower Decks, if you count it as Nutrek.
'09 to the end of SNW and Academy. Trepidatious about who steps into the EP mantle from here. In a non-mirror universe, I'd want Tawny Newsome to take the helm.
Lower decks was a pretty solid show IMO but I'm not a Trekkie so it was probably geared more towards the casual crowd.
Yes, prodigy and Lower decks are better than the nutrek, the showrunner shouldve stuck with the animated shows.
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